Bildhauerei und Raumstrategien18 January 2022Guest: Nataša Ilić’ On Work And Its Absence The seminar On work and its absence focuses on the notion of work and its centrality both for left emancipatory project and for capitalist reproduction and ideology. The seminar develops around the first conceptual outline of the international exhibition devoted to the issues of work […]
Sina Najafi 14th January 2021 Between the Hedgehog and the Fox In his 1953 essay “The Hedgehog and the Fox,” Isaiah Berlin invokes a fragment from the pre-Socratic poet Archilochus: “A fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one large thing.” What does it mean to know many small things, or, indeed, one large […]
Agnieszka Kurant 27 December 2020 The Phenomenon of Collective Intelligence in Nature and Culture Conceptual artist Agnieszka Kurant will give a presentation focused on her practice in relation to the phenomena of collective intelligence in nature and culture. Required Reading: https://www.frieze.com/article/agnieszka-kurant-collective-intelligence-0 http://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/kurant.php https://time.com/5792613/ai-art/ Noema Presents Agnieska kurant https://www.sculpture-center.org/files/SculptureCenter_AgnieszkaKurant.pdf https://www.e-flux.com/podcasts/e599d2ca4a034e46bf143ea3f5b812bf/extern An interview with Agnieszka Kuranthttp://evenmagazine.com/agnieszka-kurant/ http://evenmagazine.com/agnieszka-kurant/embed/#?secret=EhaX3DnZF2 https://bombmagazine.org/articles/agnieszka-kurant/ Agnieska Kurant investigates […]
Anselm Franke 17 November 2020 (Situatedness of art in modern-colonial structures) In the current moment we are experiencing the rapid downfall of the liberal postwar order, and in the the cracks thus opening up, we gaze into the abyss of 500 years of colonial-modern history. For the sake of orientation on common grounds and as […]
Elie Ayache 22 June 2020 The Financial Market and the Criticism of Automation 1. Overview: Marxist criticism considers the financial market as the utmost achievement of abstraction. It is the jewel of capitalism, which is in turn the accomplishment of metaphysics and of the Greek logos. We argue, against that Marxist view, that the financial market […]
Frank Ruda 15 June 2020 The Worst of Times, or How Not To Reify Freedom? These days people in and of the West protest for their freedom(s). They protest against restrictions, limitations, reductions of what they take to be fundamentally theirs. Many commentators have noted the surprise that these protesters do not simply come from […]
Oxana Timofeeva 3 June 2020 Nature, Violence, and the General Economy: Re-reading Bataille In 1844 Karl Marx famously formulated a task for a new materialist theory that would turn the criticism of heaven into the criticism of earth. Today, when the coronavirus pandemic changes the ways of ecological thinking, this claim becomes all the more appropriate, and its understanding becomes more […]