When “blue chip” artists sell the image of collective history without giving back, this is theft. When theorists publicly poo-poo our collective potential to give comfort to power or stasis, this is a theft of our potential for collective dreaming. When academics sell radical theory while being complicit in structurally conservative departments they sell all our radicality short.
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Interview with Brian Holmes: Steps Toward a Cultural Strategy
An economic collapse can set off the dynamics of resentment, it’s been seen before. But the key is to find the affective nexus where resentment and authoritarianism spring, and to offer some different resolution, a kind of constructive play – far away from standards and discipline.
Read more »On Not Allowing the Dead to Work, or Fight Firing with Firing
A conversation about getting fired, losing a job, and the implications and hidden potentialities of unemployment moderated by Michael Wilson as part of an installation and event series by Liz Glynn.
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