Category: theory

  • BE.BOP 2016

    BEBOP_POSTER_1

    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.

    BEBOP_POSTER_2

  • 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.

  • The fold holds an inclination

    Pleats of Matter, Folds of the Soul
    Giuliana Bruno
    Log
    No. 1 (Fall 2003), pp. 113-122
    Published by: Anyone Corporation
    Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41764958

    Bruno-Log-pleatsofmatter

    Also, Surface.

  • 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

  • On The Peregrine

    Werner Herzog talks books with author Robert Pogue Harrison; including John Alec Baker’s The Peregrine

    Darley for LRB.

  • Travel, walking, thinking, language

    ABMB Conversations | Artistic Practice | The Artist as Slow Traveler

    – Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane; 978-0241146538

  • Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto

    “Bodies in Plural: Toward an Anarchafeminist Manifesto” by Prof. Chiara Bottici

    Keynote Lecture delivered at the 2nd Annual Thinking the Plural Richard J. Bernstein Symposium at Muhlenberg College on September 25, 2015, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

    —
    Wark on Bottici’s Imaginal Politics: Images Beyond Imagination and the Imaginary (Columbia University Press, 2014).