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museums and relevance
A short New York Times piece from May 1968 that raises questions about the social, cultural, and political relevance of museums. The contemporary resonance is uncanny (for example see Occupy Museums)…
Pierre, a concept IS aesthetic!
(Hans Haacke, MoMA Poll, 1970) (And I hadn’t realized we were taking sides…) Pierre Bourdieu: With esthetics you are on the side of feeling, sensitivity, and pleasure. That is also true of writers. But can and should philosophers, sociologists, everyone … Continue reading
svetlana boym, “the off-modern mirror”
Svetlana Boym’s essay, “The Off-Modern Mirror” in the latest e-flux journal: “As Vladimir Nabokov explained: in the fourth dimension of art, alternative geometrical and physical parameters are made probable and thus parallel lines might not meet, not because they cannot, … Continue reading
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“the laws of its reception are most instructive”
Tafelstuken, Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders (How) can we view architecture as mass media? There are some obvious parallels—both mass media and architecture communicate through the use of particular languages; engage mass audiences; constitute public discourse and space; are organized … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, art, daphna isaacs and laurens manders, experience, percpetion, tafelstuken, walter benjamin
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actions and entities
“Dasein signifies ‘existence’ in everyday German, but this is not how Heidegger is using it. He means us to hear the literal meaning which that everyday meaning usually conceals: ‘there-being,’ or–to translate this into more idiomatic English, ‘being-there.’ This is … Continue reading
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Tagged art, dasein, kaja silverman, subjectivity, valie export
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alien relationships
Interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
