Sarah Wood
Civilisation & Its Malcontents, 2017
Caught up in the vortex of this bellicose age, adrift on the sea of digital information and misinformation, without perspective enough to glimpse the future that is actually forming, I am finding it hard to think.
Here is a book about thought right now and about how to think in a world that asks us at every level not to. Discontent? Malcontent? Sarah Wood looks at the world through Freud and fraud.
‘Sarah Wood reads Freud through a twenty-first century lens—updating his view of civilisation with considerations of algorithms, automation, Brexit, border controls, and non-linear warfare. A poetic, provocative book.’
-> Juliet Jacques
Sarah Wood was born in London and now lives and works in Cambridge. For the last fifteen years she has worked in artists’ film as a curator and artist filmmaker. She works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. Recent works include Azure (2016), Boat People (2016), Murmuration x 10 (2015), I Am A Spy (2014), Three Minute Warning (2013), For Cultural Purposes Only (2009).
Here is a book about thought right now and about how to think in a world that asks us at every level not to. Discontent? Malcontent? Sarah Wood looks at the world through Freud and fraud.
‘Sarah Wood reads Freud through a twenty-first century lens—updating his view of civilisation with considerations of algorithms, automation, Brexit, border controls, and non-linear warfare. A poetic, provocative book.’
-> Juliet Jacques
Sarah Wood was born in London and now lives and works in Cambridge. For the last fifteen years she has worked in artists’ film as a curator and artist filmmaker. She works with the found object, particularly the still and moving image, as an act of reclamation and re-interrogation. Recent works include Azure (2016), Boat People (2016), Murmuration x 10 (2015), I Am A Spy (2014), Three Minute Warning (2013), For Cultural Purposes Only (2009).