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R.I.P. WORM
Programmer extraordinaire and dear friend Peter Taylor writes with terrible news: WORM, the beloved “Institute for Avant-Garde Recreation” that made the year that I lived in Rotterdam so wonderful, has...
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Ta punition, c’est d’être toi
“I go on as I began: for the beauty of the gesture,” says Denis Lavant’s character midway through the fantastic and fantastically sad Holy Motors. As he (Monsieur Oscar) utters those words, peeling...
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Poetry from the trenches
Relationship network of the artists in the exhibition. Image accessed at http://hyperallergic.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MoMA_InventingAbstraction_Map_2000.jpg Going to MoMA’s...
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An island of language in an ocean of traces
Just finished Gayatri Spivak’s, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012). Of the essays in this compilation, I found particular inspiration in...
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Ignorant teaching and emancipation
Some old Rancière but good Rancière: selections below from The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation (1987, tr. 1991). The book is from a period in Rancière’s theory focused...
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