Oslepeni jasem / Blinded by Light

Je neustálé osvětlení stírající rozdíly mezi dnem a nocí snem modernity, anebo noční můrou? Když si posvítíme do těch nejtemnějších koutů, znamená to skutečně i to, že lépe vidíme a všemu rozumíme? Nebo nás všudypřítomný jas může i osle-pit? První část této knihy vymezuje a shrnuje dosavadní výzkum tématu kolonizace noci a sleduje její důležité projevy od starověku do současnosti. Druhá část už je specifičtěji orientovaná na problematiku osvětlování nočních oblastí ves-mírnými zrcadly. Vůbec poprvé komplexně mapuje historii těchto plánů od jejich počátku ve 20. letech 20. století až do současnosti a zasazuje je do sociálního, politického, kulturního a environmentálního kontextu. Grafika Jan Novák, Nikola Ivanov. Vychází česko-anglicky. Is the constant illumination that is blurring the distinction between day and night a dream of modernity or a nightmare? When we shine a light into the darkest corners, does it really mean that we can see better and understand everything? Or can the omnipresent brightness blind us? The first part of this book outlines and summarizes existing research on the topic of the colonization of the night and traces its important manifestations from antiquity to the present day. The second part is more specifically oriented towards the issue of illuminating night areas with space mirrors. For the first time ever, it comprehensivelytraces the history of these plans from their beginnings in the1920s to the present day, placing them in a social, political, cultural, and environmental context. Nikola Ivanov is an intermedia artist who works primarily with text, photography, and video. He is the editor of the anthology Odpočinek v neklidu (Rest in Restless Times), dedicated to the biopolitics of sleep. He currently co-directs The Applied Photography Studio at the Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and works as a methodologist at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. * The UMPRUM publishing house's series of dissertations includes exceptional texts by graduates of the doctoral programmes Theory and History of Fine Arts and Fine Arts. The purpose of the series is to promote the synergistic effect of publishing books by authors of the same generation coming from the same school, thus showing that one and one can be more than two. With a graphic solution of a common and individual jacket in one, the edition aims to be a novel step out of the "squaring of the circle": how to make a series of books while preserving their uniqueness.