Urban Hacking : : Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity / / ed. by Thomas Ballhausen, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Ballhausen, Thomas,; Bauer, Verena-Cathrin,; Bauwens, Michel,; Edlinger, Thomas,; Friesinger, Günther,; Gadringer, Melanie,; Grenzfurthner, Johannes,; Hunting, Eric,; Jahnke, Julia,; Northoff, Thomas,; Ohler, Kerstin,; Rambatan, Bonni,; Rizzo, Agatino,; Saitta, Eleanor,; Schneider, Frank Apunkt,; Shumylovych, Bohdan,; Thurner, Thomas,; Zinsmeister, Annett,
• HerausgeberIn: Ballhausen, Thomas,; Friesinger, Günther,; Grenzfurthner, Johannes,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Urban Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the everchanging environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to date and reasked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question still remains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalistic pressure and conservative politics. This collection of essays and contributions attempts to address this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Welcome to the Battlefield. Please Make Yourself Comfortable -- 1. HACKING THE CITY -- Urban Hacking as a Practical and Theoretical Critique of Public Spaces -- Urban Hacking as a Strategy for Urban (Re-)Planning/Designing -- Spandrel Evolution. Emergent Spaces of Resistance in the 21st Century -- Playing with the Built City -- Please love Banksy. A retrospective on the options of an art of disruption in public space in Vienna. -- 2. COMMUNICATION AND CREATIVITY -- Guerilla.com -- Guerrilla Gardening. Political protest, or mainstream-compatible, watered-down, wannabe subculture? -- Lenin as major urban hacker in Lviv. From monument to market. -- Verbal Graffiti. Textures of unofficial messages in public space today -- Urban Hacking. An artist strategy -- The most dangerous thing on the air. Someone broadcasts something -- Improv Everywhere. An interview with Charlie Todd. -- 3. CODES AND CONSEQUENCES -- P2PFOUND CITIES. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo -- cODE wRITING. On (Artificial) Writing -- Urban Trash Zone. Notes on the collapsing city in Warren Ellis’ and Ben Templesmiths Fell: Feral City -- CONTROL -- List of contributors