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Category: language

  • 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.

  • within reach

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  • labor vs. uber(or any of the shared-economy business)

    a “state of conscious and permanent visibility [] assures the automatic functioning of power” – Foucault.

    via MotherJones on Shannon Liss-Riordan taking on Uber. Liss-Riordan argues for the classification of their dependent labor as employees.

  • Edwidge Danticat reads Felix Morisseau-Leroy

    “Tourist” and “Boat People” in Haitian Creole, by Felix Morisseau-Leroy. Via PEN podcast.

  • psuedo press release

    Great feminist tools – language, criticality, …

    “LES FÉMINISTES ONT LA DOULEUR DE VOUS FAIRE PART DE LA NOMINATION DE” …

    via Le Beau Vice

  • LA Times – Art and race at the Whitney

    In regards of the fictional artist Donelle Woolford inclusion in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

    In the art world, inhabiting a fictional character in order to produce work is not new. Marcel Duchamp had a female alter ego called Rrose Sélavy. There is Lester Hayes, the African American artist conjured by a pair of white New York gallerists. At the 2008 Whitney Biennial there was a Miami collective called BLCK, not really a collective, but the invention of a single Haitian-born artist. And late last year, L.A.’s Launch Gallery showed the work of the Namaak Collective, a group that was allegedly founded in Amsterdam, but is actually the work of Los Angeles artists Marischa Slusarski and Britt Ehringer.

    Carolina A. Miranda at the LA Times.

  • Frederick Douglass read by Ossie Davis

    On work, payment, liberation, voice and language.

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    From the 1966 album “Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1”

    www.folkways.si.edu/ossie-davis/aut…bum/smithsonian

    Ossie Davis reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, edited by Dr. Philip Foner, which traces the abolitionist and statesman’s life from early childhood through to his most significant political accomplishments. This first volume establishes the personal and educational foundation on which Douglass built his distinguished career, specifically addressing his birth into slavery, his battle to learn to read and how being forced to “drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” inspired his escape. (See also FW05526 Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2.)