Review of Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars Benjamin.

Malcolm Bowie, Proust Among the Stars Benjamin. London: Harper Collins. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 348 pp. ISBN 0231114907

Arthur Cravan

Mina Loy\u27s great love of her life was the many-faceted Arthur Cravan, about whom this chapter revolves: poet, boxer, many of many trades - bigger than life, with a mysterious death

The Ultimate in Air

Air filling something that is then sent away, into the air or, perhaps, beyond. Starting with Chardin\u27s Air Bubbles I take up some of Joseph Cornell\u27s Bubble sets, and then Marcel Duchlamp\u27s Air de Paris, ending with the present, in these pandemic times, Air de New York

Fourth-wave HCI meets the 21st century manifesto:Creative subversion in the 'CHI-verse'

We take up Bødker’s challenge to ‘identify’ a fourth wave HCI, building on the work of Blevis et al. and others to shore up a new vision that places ‘politics and values and ethics’ at the forefront without abandoning the strengths of previous waves. We insist that a fourth wave must push harder, beyond measured criticism for actual (e.g. institutional) change. We present two studies performed at CHI’19, where we used our MANIFESTO! game to: 1) take the temperature of colleagues on adopting an activist stance, 2) test manifesto writing as a key activity in pushing HCI forward into the fourth wave, and 3) test our game for subsequent iterations, and as a probe for inspiring new digital tools. With the enthusiastic response received to gameplay, facilitated in part through a novel method using tableau vivant, we argue for taking political activism from the margins into mainstream HCI