Being Material humour James Benning

James Benning

the present volume has been largely overlooked

this book embarks on a journey to a city that no longer exists

historical

surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry

Being Material humour James BenningBeing Material is an exceptional exploration of the many ways of being material in the digital age. In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from the realm of atoms to bitsthat human affairs would be increasingly untethered from the material world. moreAnd yet in 2019, an age dominated by the digital, we have not quite left the material world behind. In Being Material,