Territorios de excepción la CV500 como laboratorio de arquitectura

La innovación en arquitectura reside en los desplazamientos: llevar el trópico a Dinamarca, un trasatlántico al centro de la ciudad, el pasado al presente, el presente al futuro y también lo profano a la academia. De estos últimos desplazamientos, habituales en la práctica de la teoría del proyecto, se ocupa esta tesis. La investigación profundizará en el tránsito de lo ordinario al archivo y viceversa, de lo hallado en un fragmento de paisaje existente desconocido para la literatura disciplinar: el territorio de la carretera CV500. Sus límites serán, en lo geográfico, el tramo entre Valencia y Sueca y, en lo temporal, los años desde el Plan de Urbanización del Saler en la época del desarrollismo de los 60s hasta La Ruta del Bacalao en la década de los 80s. El “intercambio innovador” será conducido a través de dos probados descriptores y formuladores de teoría de arquitectura a partir de relecturas de lo ordinario: Learning from Las Vegas y Delirious New York ABSTRACT Innovation in architecture resides on displacements: taking the tropics to Denmark and the ocean liners to the city centre, bringing the past to the present and taking the present to the future, and converting the ordinary into academia. This thesis will deal with this last displacement, common in the practice of project theory. The research will provide an in-depth view of the transition from the ordinary into cultural archives and vice versa, based on what was found in a fragment of an existing landscape absent from related literature: the territory of the CV500 road. The geographical limit will be the section between Valencia and Sueca, while the time limit will be the years from the Saler Zoning Plan during the economic development policy of the 1960s to the “Bacalao” clubbing route of the 1980s. The “innovative exchange” will be led through two proven architecture theory descriptors and formulators based on rereading the ordinary: Learning from Las Vegas and Delirious New York.

Electronic dance music culture and religion: An Overview

This article provides a comprehensive and critical overview of existing research that investigates (directly and indirectly) the religio-spiritual dimensions of electronic dance music culture (EDMC) (from disco, through house, to post-rave forms). Studies of the culture and religion of EDMC are explored under four broad groupings: the cultural religion of EDMC expressed through 'ritual' and 'festal'; subjectivity, corporeality and the phenomenological dance experience (especially 'ecstasy' and 'trance'); the dance community and a sense of belonging (the 'vibe' and 'tribes'); and EDMC as a new 'spirituality of life'. Moving beyond the cultural Marxist approaches of the 1970s, which held youth (sub)cultural expressions as 'ineffectual' and 'tragic', and the postmodernist approaches of the early 1990s, which held rave to be an 'implosion of meaning', recent anthropological and sociological approaches recognise that the various manifestations of this youth cultural phenomenon possess meaning, purpose and significance for participants. Contemporary scholarship thus conveys the presence of religiosity and spirituality within contemporary popular cultural formations. In conclusion, I suggest that this and continuing scholarship can offer useful counterpoint to at least one recent account (of clubbing) that overlooks the significance of EDMC through a restricted and prejudiced apprehension of 'religion'.

Keyboard warriors in cyberfights:conflict in online communities of consumption

Nowadays, with the use of social media generalizing, increasingly more people gather online to share their passion for specific consumption activities. Despite this shared passion, conflicts frequently erupt in online communities of consumption (OCC). A systematic review of the literature revealed that a lot of knowledge has developed on OCC conflict. Different types of conflicts unfolding in an OCC context have been distinguished, various drivers of conflict identified and various consequences outlined at the individual level (experiential value) and the community level (collective engagement and community culture). However the specificity of conflicts unfolding in an OCC context has not been conceptualized. Past research is also inconclusive as to where and when does OCC conflict create or destroy value in communities. This research provides a theory of OCC conflict and its impact on value formation by conceptualizing OCC conflict as performances. The theory was developed by conducting a netnography of a clubbing forum. Close to 20,000 forum posts and 250 pages of interview transcript and field notes were collected over 27 months and analysed following the principles of grounded theory. Four different types of conflict performances are distinguished (personal, played, reality show and trolling conflict) based on the clarity of the performance. Each type of conflict performance is positioned with regard to its roots and consequences for value formation. This research develops knowledge on disharmonious interactions in OCCs contributing to the development of a less utopian perspective of OCCs. It indicates how conflict is not only a byproduct of consumption but it is also a phenomenon consumed. It also introduces the concept of performance clarity to the literature on performance consumption. This research provides guidelines to community managers on how to manage conflict and raises ethical issues regarding the management of conflict on social media.