Monthly Archives: September 2011

Gerald Raunig on Theory

Greg to Gerald Raunig: Giles Deleuze and Félix Guattari sought to make a radical break with (among other totalizing discourses) the powerful influence of Hegel’s dialectical thinking on Structuralists as well as members of the Frankfurt School and other followers … Continue reading

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Nato Thompson on Living as Form

Last Friday Creative Time held its 3rd annual Summit on socially engaged art,  and then simultaneously opened a massive exhibition organized by chief curator Nato Thompson entitled Living as Form at the old Essex Street Market on the Lower East … Continue reading

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Diary of Thirst: a blog about art, politics, & culture: 911

Still Waiting for the End of Irony… * Dual testimonials to top-down government arrogance is how artists and activists viewed the World Trade Center towers in the late 70s. First proposed during World War II by Chase Manhattan’s David Rockefeller … Continue reading

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