With contributions from: Abraham Geil, Tomáš Jirsa, Roland Meyer, Daniël de Zeeuw, Sigrid Weigel, Elena Vogman, Nicole Morse, Elisa Aaltola, Sudeep Dasgupta, Andrea Pinotti, Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg and Susanna Paasonen, Kate Rennebohm, Brian Price, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Pietro Conte.
It was a pleasure to review this edited volume on contemporary portraiture for Critical Inquiry. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Homework: discuss the performance of "Ah, ça ira" @ La Conciergerie and the arsonist attacks on France's high speed rails through the lens of Judith Butler's "Burning Acts. Injurious Speech" in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick/Andrew Parker (eds.): Performativity and Performance, NY/London 1995, pp. 197-226.
Thrilled to return to Normandy in the Fall to go through Foucault's manuscripts and lecture notes at @IMECArchives ! 😍 📚
We've just released the second issue of Bureaucritics! 📨📬 David Graeber famously labelled bureaucracy "a dead zone of the imagination" (2012). Then why are there so many artworks about it? Find out in our report on recent work on bureaucracy in the arts. bureaucritics.substack.com/p/artministr...
Dear Bureaucritics, This issue is a report on recent work on bureaucracy in the arts. Before coming up with the intentionally silly portmanteau “Artministration”, we considered a number of different t...
Instant dopamine hit at the news of this publication!📖 Many thanks to @vhoeving.bsky.social@lenawetenkamp.bsky.social for the elegant editorial work and the invitation to contribute. Can't wait to read the other chapters! Check it out, maybe recommend it to your university library? 🙌
“Consider, Milena, that the office is not just some arbitrary, stupid institution (although it is and very much so, but that’s not the point; as a matter of fact it’s more fantastic than stupid)” Prague, July 31, 1920 [Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm]
"Landscape with scholars" - China, Ming dynasty, 17th century, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst — the scholar, this strange animal in the wild
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