February 2012
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Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open... →
Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly denounced in the media, just as non-violent anarchists are also always denounced in the media (and I might remark here that while not an anarchist himself, Gandhi was strongly influenced by anarchists like Kropotkin and Tolstoy), as a mere front for more violent, terroristic elements, with whom he was said to be...
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"The name I chose is 'Enlightened Sexism' -- a... →
barthel:
Here is a good piece by Susan Douglas about her concept of “enlightened sexism.” Maybe you will find it useful? (I especially like the focus on workplace issues and how those are tied to cultural images.)
Important stuff.
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“The problem modernism always had with kitsch is that it is not remarkable to be...”
– Rosemary Heather | Meat Dress Manifesto: On the contemporary irrelevance of contemporary art
I was going to post a link last night to this discussion in the Brooklyn Rail between Yves Alain-Bois and Rosalind Krauss about the latter’s new book, but I wanted to say something about how Rosalind...
the covers mixtape xxxiv | captain obvious →
jennilee:
SIDE A 1. The National - Twenty Miles To NH Part 2 (The Philistines Jr. Cover) 2. Nightlands - Til I Die (The Beach Boys Cover) 3. Lia Ices - Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd Cover) 4. Small Sur - Fall Skull (Little Wings Cover) 5. Wye Oak - Strangers (The Kinks Cover) 6. St. Vincent - Never Tear Us Apart (INXS Cover) 7. Youth Lagoon - Goodbye Again (John Denver Cover) SIDE B 1....
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Selflessness and self-absorption
thenewinquiry:
Art historian Michael Fried’s 1980 book Absorption and Theatricality is about how French painters in the late 18th century started to paint people who are totally absorbed in the moment — engrossed in what they are doing and oblivious to the possibility that they could be observed (by, say, the person looking at the painting). Fried tries to figure out why viewers of the time...
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His Future as Attila the Hun by Timothy Donnelly.
keithjvaradi:
But when I try to envision what it might be like to live detached from the circuitry that suffers me to crave
what I know I’ll never need, or what I need but have in abundance already, I feel the cloud of food-court
breakfast loosen its embrace, I feel the shopping center drop as its escalator tenders me up to the story
intended for conference...
“After Kant’s copernican turn, physis (the body or nature) lost its intrinsic...”
– Michael Mack, German Idealism and the Jew (via hollovv)
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Evgeny Morozov: The Death of the Cyberflâneur -... →
THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site called Ceramics Today — caught my eye. Celebrating the rise of the “cyberflâneur,” it painted a bright digital future, brimming with playfulness, intrigue and serendipity, that awaited this mysterious online type. This...
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BREACH: Aurelien Arbet & Jeremie Egry, Bianca...
BREACH
Aurelien Arbet & Jeremie Egry, Bianca Brunner, Jean Charles de Quillacq, Bryan Dooley
19th January 18th February, 2012 Rod Barton Gallery, London EC1
Rod Barton Gallery is pleased to present Breach, an exhibition focusing on four young artists who embrace photography’s plasticity and it’s ability to exist in multiple contexts. Taking advantage of the medium’s...
unbornwhiskey:
I don’t mean to exaggerate. I knew what words meant, more or less. A cup was a cup, a window a window. That much was clear. Was that much clear? There began to be moments of hesitation, fractions of a second when the thing I was looking at refused to accept any language. Or rather, between the thing and the word a question had appeared, a slight pause, a rupture.
I recall one...
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“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
modernandmaterialthings:
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of...
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Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious
shitmystudentswrite:
Sigmund Freud had two white tigers. One of them attacked him.
TNI Blogger Announcement #7: Rob Horning
thenewinquiry:
And for our finale, our last blog and last blogger (for now), and the only thing you’ll get out of us before the launch on Monday: we are just tickled to announce editor Rob Horning’s blog Marginal Utility will be making its new home at TNI. Some intellectual historians have suggested the desire to steal Rob’s blog was the the genesis of TNI as we now know it, but one thing’s...
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Evian Christ - go girl
Evian Christ is to Clams...
Legendary Artist Mike Kelley Dead at 58, an... →
raymondboisjoly:
SAD DAY
Shit.
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Lia Ices - wish you were here
A great cover of a...
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Young Turks Takeover on FBi Radio
You can hear a...
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Nina Power - How to Find a Better Life? | Review... →
The flip-side of the structural inequality of the art world, a curious microcosm of the global financial system that massively overlaps with it at the level of speculation and the increasing abstraction of ‘value’ that art currently symbolises, is the kind of work – constant, frenetic, networked, endless, overlapping, highly libidinally-charged but exhausting - that characterises freelance art...
How to Find a Better Life? Nina Power reviews 'Are...
precariousworkersbrigade:
How to Find a Better Life?
Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood eds., Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art. Sternberg Press, 216pp, £10.95, ISBN 9781934105313
reviewed by Nina Power, Review 31The notes at the back of this latest e-flux collection state that one group of contributors, the Precarious Workers Brigade, ‘have a...
January 2012
The simple answer is that I have changed my... →
The Millions | Lethal Language: Ben Marcus Urges Writers to March on the Enemy
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deep-cave replied to your photo: This, I finished yesterday. It was excellent,…
Is that a Vancouver bus transfer?
Good eye! Yeah, I’ve been using that same transfer as a bookmark ever since my last trip out west. Vancouver’s bus transfers are the perfect size and paper-weight for bookmarks. Toronto’s transit passes are flimsy little newsprint stubs that are not only poor...
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