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161 7 #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World “Globalization takes place only in capital and data; everything else is damage control.” —Spivak (2010, 36) “Insofar as the fake points to unresolved problems in the world today, it should be analyzed, not dismissed.” —Abbas (2008, 252) In 1993, Jurassic Park (dir. Steven Spielberg) unleashed a frenzy of cloned, CGI-generated dinosaurs from a tropical island theme park onto multiplex screens.1 With the “inevitable” failure of Ju- rassic Park’s security (Scott 2014), and the equally inevitable suc- cess of this “contemporary descendent” of Frankenstein (Mitch- ell 2005, 172), rampaging dinosaur clones have become a regular 1 This chapter builds on Ingram and Reisenleitner (2014), a theoretical and photographic meditation on Norbert Artner’s Hallstatt Revisited I that draws on Ackbar Abbas’s juxtaposition in “Faking Globalization” of Deleuze’s “any-space-whatever” and Mario Gandelsonas’s “X-urbanism.” In our reading Artner’s series represents a kind of “twenty-first-century urbanism with Chinese characteristics” and makes clear the need to distin- guish among different forms of copying.
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Siting Futurity The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Title
Siting Futurity
Subtitle
The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna
Author
Susan Ingram
Publisher
punctumbooks
Location
New York
Date
2021
Language
English
License
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
ISBN
978-1-953035-48-6
Size
12.6 x 20.2 cm
Pages
224
Keywords
activism, Austria, contemporary art, contemporary theater, protest culture, radicalism, social protest, Vienna
Category
Geographie, Land und Leute

Table of contents

  1. Preface 11
  2. Introduction 19
  3. 1. (Re)Forming Vienna’s Culture of Resistance: The Proletenpassions @ #Arena 39
  4. 2. Converting Kebab and Currency into Community on Planet #Ottakring 57
  5. 3. Lazarus’s Necropolitical Afterlife at Vienna’s #Volkstheater 81
  6. 4. Hardly Homemad(e): #Schlingensief’s Container 101
  7. 5. From Grand Hotels to Tiny Treasures: Wes Anderson and the Ruin Porn Worlds of Yesterday 119
  8. 6. Capitalism, Schizophrenia, and #Vanlife: The Alpine Edukation of Hans Weingarter 143
  9. 7. #Hallstatt: Welcome to Jurassic World 161
  10. Bibliography 189
  11. Filmography 215
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