January 10, 2011 by Marc Herbst
Capital attempts to claim more and more for its own and is seemingly a-ok with letting what is outside of its sphere collapse. In this era of "the state" seemingly retreating from a "civic function", when what was "public space" is more and more privatized, social practice becomes interesting because it can fill in that space of "the public" and meet "public needs". In this era, social practice becomes interesting to radical practitioners because of because one is able to organize one's own reception within complicated and ambiguous places.
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October 21, 2010 by Marc Herbst
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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October 6, 2010 by Marc Herbst
In order to Occupy Everything, we must also constantly and realistically re-imagine how to best occupy our own perch. I write to reflect on the ground from which our individual and collaborative projects might be strengthened. So as to see who we really are and help us imagine who we can be.
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