Cover, image source: Private

Notes

All texts in English and German

Publisher Note

– A documentation of the “Recycling Yantra” project as well as a an exploration of desire in electronic consumer culture –

Contents
Raphael Rogenmoser – Preface
Raphael Perret – Introduction
Ravi Agarwal – Ecological Contestations – Hi-Tech Waste a Case Study from India
Olaf Knellessen – The Cycle of Waste
Madhu Khanna – The Smara Hara Yantra in a Contemporary Context
Simon Berkler – Needs in Marketing: How Much Desire Does the Industry Need?
Frank J. Korom – Unravelling a Narrative Scroll About Modernity and its Discontents
Francis Müller – Technological Artefacts as Objects of Desire
Bharati Chaturvedi – When Workers Become Unnamed Machines and Machines Become Undocumented Trash
Isabella Bozsa – Desire as Klésa in the Teachings of Buddhism
Daniel Morgenthaler – Big Brother on the Couch

Artists’ Book

Machines of Desire

by Raphael Perret

Work  
Topics Consumption, Electronics, Ewaste, India, Recycling, Yantras
Methods Artistic Research, Installation, Photography, Video
Format Hardcover
Dimensions 17.0 × 24.0 × 2.4 cm
Pages 212
Technique Offset