Black box allegories of Gulf Futurism : the irreducible other of computational capital
- Given the prospect of post-oil futures, this chapter historically situates contemporary Gulf Futurism within cybernetic and logistical aspirations underlying the current global trend of the smartness mandate. Working through the complex visuality that the cybernetic black box animates, the chapter revisits Fredric Jameson's cognitive mapping as an allegorical model for the inherent frictions of computational capital. To this end, it discusses Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri's artistic practice that reclaims a right to speculate while condensing material reality and imaginative threads, thereby going beyond a mere gesture of unveiling or mapping.
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| Author: | Özgün Eylül İşcen |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722535 |
| URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-25/iscen_black-box-allegories.pdf |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_05 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-041-1 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-96558-040-4 |
| ISSN: | 2627-731X |
| Parent Title (English): | The case for reduction / edited by Christoph F.E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger ; Cultural Inquiry ; 25 |
| Publisher: | ICI Press |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2023/03/01 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2023/03/15 |
| Tag: | Cognitive mapping; Gulf futurism; Smartness mandate |
| GND Keyword: | Qadiri, Monira al-; Golfstaaten; Futurismus; Ubiquitous Computing; Blackbox |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| First Page: | 91 |
| Last Page: | 115 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 50831657X |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste / 700 Künste; Bildende und angewandte Kunst |
| 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik | |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |
