Bøger af Jeff Derksen

Future Works grapples with time, asking how to fully live with the present while also being attentive to possible futures and to the lost temporalities buried within the now. It was written haltingly over a decade shaped and troubled by climate change and environmental collapse, the global rise of populist fascism, an invigorated politics of bodily control (biopolitics), mass forced displacement of people, increasing disparities in wealth and resources, and a general understanding that daily life is getting meaner, unsustainably expensive, and generally shitty. Yet underneath this manure, very strong buds have tried to push through - mutual care, deeper social justice, an ethos of living more and working less, environmental action, and more ethical ways of being. This book is about trying to live through the last ugly decade. It's an angry-funny book about cities and trees, about human and more-than-human labour, about decolonizing temporalities, and about futurity.

Over the past decades, public space and architecture have changed drastically as a result of modern technology and its influence in gentrification. The precision of technology no longer requires authorship or a real person pulling the trigger in order to document reality. The more advanced technology becomes, the more in control investors become in ownership of urban planning, and the more out of control citizens are to their public spaces. In this case, New York and other large cities have been under constant artistic scrutiny as a result of these municipal changes that call for permanent control and are marked by capitalist trends.The exhibition catalog "Spaces of No Control" features artists who examine the histories of specific places to create a narrative on the defining architectural and social impressions of the urban structure. The core of this show is formulated by photographic examinations of cities and their social strata, which are then transferred into other media to reflect on how to come to terms with this new reality.

Political poems at the nexus of aesthetic discourse, globalization, and cultural studies.

Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art and critical practices encounter the imperialist agenda of globalization.

"Transnational Muscle Cars" is the second book in Jeff Derksen's trilogy addressing critical geography and contemporary cultural and political theory.

A long poem that blends and bends the lyric, procedural poetry, the travelogue and extended forms, Dwell lives in, or dwells on, the interaction of a restless subjectivity with the seemingly transparent, yet identifiable, social codes that encases us.

These poems propose a social self that is able to recognize the ironies and restrictions we live in today.