{"product_id":"organizing-color-toward-a-chromatics-of-the-social-paperback","title":"Organizing Color: Toward a Chromatics of the Social - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimon Beyes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world that is saturated with color, but how should we make sense of color's force and capacities? This book develops a theory of color as fundamental medium of the social. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructed as a montage of scenes from the past two hundred years, \u003ci\u003eOrganizing Color\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how the interests of capital, management, governance, science, and the arts have wrestled with color's allure and flux. Beyes takes readers from Goethe's chocolate experiments in search of chromatic transformation to nineteenth-century Scottish cotton mills designed to modulate workers' moods and productivity, from the colonial production of indigo in India to globalized categories of skin colorism and their disavowal. Tracing the consumption, control and excess of industrial and digital color, other chapters stage encounters with the literary chromatics of Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e processing the machinery of the chemical industries, the red of political revolt in Godard's films, and the blur of education and critique in Steyerl's \u003ci\u003eAdorno's Grey\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributing to a more general reconsideration of aesthetic capitalism and the role of sensory media, this book seeks to pioneer a theory of social organization--a \"chromatics of organizing\"--that is attuned to the protean and world-making capacity of color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimon Beyes\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology of Organisation and Culture at Leuphana University Lüneburg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48449817280761,"sku":"9781503638617","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/b6CHkmG2qf9781503638617.webp?v=1779871957","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/organizing-color-toward-a-chromatics-of-the-social-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}