Flâneuse: Women Walk the City by Lauren Elkin

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Flâneuse byLauren Elkin

A flâneuse is, in Lauren Elkin’s words, “a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities of a good walk.” Virginia Woolf called it “streethaunting,” Holly Golightly epitomized it in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Patti Smith did it in her own inimitable style in 1960s New York.

Part cultural meander, part memoir, Flâneuse traces the relationship between singular women and their cities as a way to map her own life—a journey that begins in New York and takes us to Paris, via Venice, Tokyo, and London—including the paths beaten by such flâneuses as the cross-dressing, nineteenth-century novelist George Sand, the Parisian artist Sophie Calle, the journalist Martha Gellhorn, and the writer Jean Rhys. With tenacity and insight, Elkin creates a mosaic of what urban settings have meant to women, charting through literature, art, history, and film women’s sometimes liberating, sometimes fraught relationship to the metropolis.

The Guardian – A tribute to female flâneurs: the women who reclaimed our city streets.
The Guardian invites one to share.
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BE.BOP 2016

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BE.BOP 2016.
BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS.
CALL & RESPONSE.

A project of Art Labour Archives
Curated by Alanna Lockward
Walter Mignolo + Advisor
Julia Roth + Commissioned Works Coordinator
Elena Quintarelli + Curatorial Assistant

1-3 June 2016
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/praxis/bebop_2016/
Screenings + Talks + Performances

An extensive and varied 3-day programme with eight panel discussions, accompanied by exciting commissioned performances, films and site-specific installations will take place.

BE.BOP 2016 introduces international guests, artists, activists and scholars: Sandra Abd’Allah-Alvarez Ramírez + Laura Alegre + Dalida María Benfield + Gurminder K. Bhambra + Manuela Boatca + Erna Brodber + Lesley–Ann Brown + Artwell Cain + Kjell Caminha + Augustus Casely-Hayford + Mathias Danbolt + Teresa María Díaz Nerio + Yoel Díaz Vázquez + Frank Dragtenstein + Rebecca Drammeh + Simmi Dullay + Jeannette Ehlers + Fatima El Tayeb + Quinsy Gario + Cristel Gbaguidi + Pedro Pablo Gómez + Gillion Grantsaan + Adler Guerrier + Ylva Habel + Sasha Huber + Malcolm Momodou Jallow + Jane Jin Kaisen + Patricia Kaersenhout + Nazila Kivi + Krudas Cubensi + Napuli Langa + Mette Moestrup + Mwangi Hutter + Patrice Naimbana + Tone O. Nielsen + Tanja Ostojic + Zulma Palermo + Malena Pestellini + Anne Ring Petersen + Tuleka Prah + Rod Sachs + Moritz Schramm + Robbie Shilliam + Helle Stenum + Javier Tapia + Ovidiu Tichindeleanu + Rolando Vázquez.

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Future

What is at Stake in the Future? | Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek
May 16th, 2016. via DIS

#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics
by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek • 14 May 2013
Accel­er­a­tion­ism pushes towards a future that is more mod­ern, an altern­at­ive mod­ern­ity that neo­lib­er­al­ism is inher­ently unable to gen­er­ate.

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso Books.

Graham Harman – Object-oriented Philosophy

Graham Harman at Moderna Museet: What is an Object?
On 16 January 2015 the theorist Graham Harman held a lecture about his object-oriented ideas in the Auditorium of Moderna Museet. The lecture was part of a symposium that posed questions about the role of the object in the spheres of aesthetics, society and the market. The symposium was a collaboration between, Moderna Museet, the Stockholm School of Economics and SASSE Art Division.

Another talk atICA London
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The Third Table

A review of Third Table.

Related:
Dylan Kerr for Artspace.com
e-flux conversations.
Critique on mariborchan.si