Lehtonen, Mikko (2013) (ed.) Liikkuva maailma. Liike, raja, tieto, Tampere: Vastapaino, Tampereen yliopisto. 312 pp. ISBN 978-951-768-408-8

Abstract

<p> <em>Liikkuva maailma </em>(&ldquo;fluid world&rdquo;) is a collection of articles edited by Mikko Lehtonen, the Professor of Media Culture at University of Tampere. It is a result of the work of a research development programme by the same name at University of Tampere (2011&ndash;2013), where new conceptualisations were created about the current world characterised by movement. The &ldquo;fluidities&rdquo; studied were concrete &ndash; moving people, messages and objects &ndash; and symbolic &ndash; entanglements of politics, economics and culture, as well as movements of ideologies and thoughts. As Lehtonen points out in his introduction; the researchers urgently need a new kind of imagination and empathy to understand the world, where things can appear to be present even when they physically are not.</p>