Guerra Civil española y carteles de propaganda : El arte y las masas

El cartelismo durante la Guerra Civil española fue uno de los más intensos momentos de manifestación masiva del arte; las proclamas exhibidas sobre los muros fueron expresión pública de ideas y sentimientos arraigados en la trama social. Su análisis suministra datos básicos sobre el pensamiento visual de entonces. Además, por su condición de arte popular, el cartelismo se fundamentó en un proceso industrial que renegó del concepto de "obra única". Todo ello condiciona los estudios historio-gráficos, necesariamente masivos, fundamentados en las recurrencias y pautas observadas estadísticamente. En el artículo se procede en primer lugar a un análisis formal y estilístico de tres autores capaces de representar las tendencias del conjunto (Renau, Arturo Ballester y Vicente Ballester Marco). En una segunda parte, el análisis pasa de la forma a la retórica, analizando la masa de carteles para comprobar dos sistemas de relaciones: el de los carteles con su referente (régimen de la predicación y régimen de la presentación); y el de proclamas en relación con el público que las contempla (regímenes de discurso, de relato y de discurso-relato conjugados).

Guerra Civil española y carteles de propaganda : El arte y las masas

El cartelismo durante la Guerra Civil española fue uno de los más intensos momentos de manifestación masiva del arte; las proclamas exhibidas sobre los muros fueron expresión pública de ideas y sentimientos arraigados en la trama social. Su análisis suministra datos básicos sobre el pensamiento visual de entonces. Además, por su condición de arte popular, el cartelismo se fundamentó en un proceso industrial que renegó del concepto de "obra única". Todo ello condiciona los estudios historio-gráficos, necesariamente masivos, fundamentados en las recurrencias y pautas observadas estadísticamente. En el artículo se procede en primer lugar a un análisis formal y estilístico de tres autores capaces de representar las tendencias del conjunto (Renau, Arturo Ballester y Vicente Ballester Marco). En una segunda parte, el análisis pasa de la forma a la retórica, analizando la masa de carteles para comprobar dos sistemas de relaciones: el de los carteles con su referente (régimen de la predicación y régimen de la presentación); y el de proclamas en relación con el público que las contempla (regímenes de discurso, de relato y de discurso-relato conjugados).

Guerra Civil española y carteles de propaganda : El arte y las masas

El cartelismo durante la Guerra Civil española fue uno de los más intensos momentos de manifestación masiva del arte; las proclamas exhibidas sobre los muros fueron expresión pública de ideas y sentimientos arraigados en la trama social. Su análisis suministra datos básicos sobre el pensamiento visual de entonces. Además, por su condición de arte popular, el cartelismo se fundamentó en un proceso industrial que renegó del concepto de "obra única". Todo ello condiciona los estudios historio-gráficos, necesariamente masivos, fundamentados en las recurrencias y pautas observadas estadísticamente. En el artículo se procede en primer lugar a un análisis formal y estilístico de tres autores capaces de representar las tendencias del conjunto (Renau, Arturo Ballester y Vicente Ballester Marco). En una segunda parte, el análisis pasa de la forma a la retórica, analizando la masa de carteles para comprobar dos sistemas de relaciones: el de los carteles con su referente (régimen de la predicación y régimen de la presentación); y el de proclamas en relación con el público que las contempla (regímenes de discurso, de relato y de discurso-relato conjugados).

The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe: A State-of-the-Art of the Academic Literature and Research. CEPS Liberty and Security in Europe No. 61, October 2013

In the last 30 years, a clear trend has come to define modern immigration law and policy. A set of seemingly disparate developments concerning the constant reinforcement of border controls, tightening of conditions of entry, expanding capacities for detention and deportation and the proliferation of criminal sanctions for migration offences, accompanied by an anxiety on the part of the press, public and political establishment regarding migrant criminality can now be seen to form a definitive shift in the European Union towards the so-called ‘criminalisation of migration’. This paper aims to provide an overview of the ‘state-of-the-art’ in the academic literature and EU research on criminalisation of migration in Europe. It analyses three key manifestations of the so-called ‘crimmigration’ trend: discursive criminalisation; the use of criminal law for migration management; and immigrant detention, focusing both on developments in domestic legislation of EU member states but also the increasing conflation of mobility, crime and security which has accompanied EU integration. By identifying the trends, synergies and gaps in the scholarly approaches dealing with the criminalisation of migration, the paper seeks to provide a framework for on-going research under Work Package 8 of the FIDUCIA project.

Advanced public transportation systems: the state of the art update '98.

Federal Transit Administration, Washington, D.C.

Advanced public transportation systems: the state of the art update '94. Final report.

Federal Transit Administration, Washington, D.C.

Native American woman Yvonne Wanrow speaking at Political Prisoner speak-out

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Rosalynn Carter at Political Caucus convention party

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

On medium specificity and discipline crossovers in modern art : An interview with Jacques Ranciére on Medium-Specificity and Discipline Crossovers in Modern Art

Jacques Ranciere's work on aesthetics has received a great deal of attention recently. Given his work has enormous range – taking in art and literature, political theory, historiography, pedagogy and worker's history – Andrew McNamara and Toni Ross (UNSW) seek to explore his wider project in this interview, while showing how it leads to his alternative insights into aesthetics. Rancière sets aside the core suppositions linking the medium to aesthetic judgment, which has informed many definitions of modernism. Rancière is emphatic in freeing aesthetic judgment from issues of medium-specificity. He argues that the idea of autonomy associated with medium-specificity – or 'truth to the medium' – was 'a very late one' in modernism, and that post-medium trends were already evident in early modernism. While not stressing a simple continuity between early modernism and contemporary art, Ranciere nonetheless emphasizes the ethical and political ramifications of maintaining an a-disciplinary stance.

Does institutional location protect from political influence? the case of a minimum labour standards enforcement agency in Australia

Among the many factors that influence enforcement agencies, this article examines the role of the institutional location (and independence) of agencies, and an incumbent government's ideology. It is argued that institutional location affects the level of political influence on the agency's operations, while government ideology affects its willingness to resource enforcement agencies and approve regulatory activities. Evidence from the agency regulating minimum labour standards in the Australian federal industrial relations jurisdiction (currently the Fair Work Ombudsman) highlights two divergences from the regulatory enforcement literature generally. First, notions of independence from political interference offered by institutional location are more illusory than real and, second, political need motivates political action to a greater extent than political ideology.

Public realm and transport, international best practice case studies and opportunities for Brisbane

This report was prepared for Lat 27 Pty Ltd for the purpose of conducting a City Centre Public Realm and Active Transport Study for Urban Renewal Brisbane, Brisbane City Council. In this review, we highlight some key learnings and recommendations from innovative projects across the globe to inform public realm design and help facilitate active transport in subtropical Brisbane. Traditionally, Australian cities have been have been based on northern European models. This report is informed by the view that planners and urban designers must look beyond that paradigm to redefine and re-conceptualise our city in a different way, one that values our unique local identity and climate. In re-designing Brisbane’s public realm, therefore, design interventions and responses must celebrate our unique identity and outdoor lifestyle and address the subtropical climate's reality of life in warm humid summers and cool dry winters. The current period of rapid urban change, and the imperative to adapt to climate change, together offer an opportunity to prioritise and integrate design features that provide shade and shelter from sun and summer rain, open and permeable urban environments that facilitate cooling air movement, and connections to water and nature, so that the urban built form co-exists within an inviting, functional and memorable natural landscape. To inform this transformation, this review provides insight into international experiences and best practices. To date, although there is much practice-based knowledge, academic studies outlining learnings and recommendations from case studies (especially in a subtropical context) remain rare. Thus, a range of sources (industry reports, websites, journal articles and books) have been utilised.

An interview with Jacques Rancière : on medium-specificity and discipline crossovers in modern art

Jacques Rancière's work on aesthetics has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Given his work has enormous range – covering art and literature, political theory, historiography, pedagogy and worker's history – Andrew McNamara and Toni Ross (UNSW) explore his wider critical ambitions in this interview, while showing how it leads to alternative insights into aesthetics. Rancière sets aside the core suppositions linking the medium to aesthetic judgment, which has informed many definitions of modernism. Rancière is emphatic in freeing aesthetic judgment from issues of medium-specificity. He argues that the idea of autonomy associated with medium-specificity – or 'truth to the medium' – was 'a very late one' in modernism, and that post-medium trends were already evident in early modernism. While not stressing a simple continuity between early modernism and contemporary art, Ranciere nonetheless emphasizes the on-going ethical and political ramifications of maintaining an a-disciplinary stance.

Conflict and seduction in the public sphere

In a critical but sympathetic reading of Habermas’s work (1984, 1987a, 1987b, 2003), Luke Goode (2005) recently sought to rework his theory of deliberative democracy in an age of mediated and increasingly digital public spheres. Taking a different approach, Alan McKee (2005) challenged the culture- and class-bound strictures of Habermasian rationalism, instead pursuing a more radically pluralist account of postmodern public spheres. The editors of this special section of Media, Culture & Society invited us to discuss our differing approaches to the public sphere. Goode holds that the institutional bases of contemporary public spheres (political parties, educational institutions or public media) remain of critical importance, albeit in the context of a kaleidoscopic array of unofficial and informal micro-publics, both localized and de-territorialized. In contrast, McKee sustains a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ toward the official, hegemonic institutions of the public sphere since they tend to exclude and delegitimize discourses and practices that challenge their polite middle-class norms. McKee’s recent research has focused on sexual cultures, particularly among youth (McKee, 2011). Goode’s recent work has examined new social media spaces, particularly in relation to news and public debate (e.g. Goode, 2009; Goode et al., 2011). Consequently, our discussion turned to a domain which links our interests: after Goode discussed some of his recent research on (in)civility on YouTube as a new media public sphere, McKee challenged him to consider the case of pornographic websites modelled on social media sites.1 He identifies a greater degree of ‘civility’ in these pornographic sibling sites than on YouTube, requiring careful consideration of what constitutes a ‘public sphere’ in contemporary digital culture. Such sites represent an environment that shatters the opposition of public and private interest, affording public engagement on matters of the body, of intimacy, of gender politics, of pleasure and desire – said by many critics to be ruled out of court in Habermasian theory. Such environments also trouble traditional binaries between the cognitive and the affective, and between the performative and the deliberative. In what follows we explore the differences between our approaches in the form of a dialogue. As is often the case, our approaches seemed less at odds after engaging in conversation than may have initially appeared. But important differences of emphasis remain.

Digital soapboxes : towards an interaction design agenda for situated civic innovation

We argue that there are at least two significant issues for interaction designers to consider when creating the next generation of human interfaces for civic and urban engagement: (1) The disconnect between citizens participating in either digital or physical realms has resulted in a neglect of the hybrid role that public place and situated technology can play in contributing to civic innovation. (2) Under the veneer of many social media tools, hardly any meaningful strategies or approaches are found that go beyond awareness raising and allow citizens to do more than clicking a ‘Like’ button. We call for an agenda to design the next generation of ‘digital soapboxes’ that contributes towards a new form of polity helping citizens not only to have a voice but also to appropriate their city in order to take action for change.

Food for Thought (Next Wave Festival)

Food for Thought embraces the notion that a revolution can start at the dinner table. Drawing inspiration from Judy Chicago’s seminal artwork ‘The Dinner Party’, LEVEL Artist Run Initiative hosted a series of dinner party events in order to create vibrant discussions concerning the role of women and feminism in the twenty-first century. The work consisted of a reading room, four dinner party events, and four public talks covering the topics: 'Women and the arts';'Generations: plurality and difference'; 'Women in the media'; and 'How can art contribute to political change for women in the 21st century?'