On September 17th, 2017, the last day of documenta 14, I wrote a Minus Plato post called ‘Exit through the Trojan Horse’. Today’s post – one of a handful left before Minus Plato ends on May 4th, 2022 – borrows the same title as part of a collaboration with documenta 14 artist Daniel García Andújar […]
And, no, I’m not primarily thinking of the cast of the Victory of Samothrace in Ohio State University’s Thompson Library (although I’m open to hacking that space in the future!). Instead it is a whole other library (one in which material matters) that prompts me to have my librarian post this today and I’ll let […]
The right of revolution grants the people of a nation the right to overthrow a government that acts against their common interests. In political philosophy, the right of revolution was developed as a concept in Two Treatise on Government, written by John Locke at the beginning of the Enlightenment. The right to revolution was included […]
Victor Klemperer published his LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii: Notizbuch eines Philologen (The Language of the Third Reich: A Philologist’s Notebook) in 1947, but he had been taking notes on how Nazi propaganda was changing the German language for at least ten years before then, documenting its daily shifts, like an undercover reporter building his […]
It is hard to write about any exhibition from a distance, let alone one as ambitious, expansive and rooted in its immediate contexts as documenta 14. So, until I get to Athens in early June, Minus Plato will limit itself to reacting to reports from those who have been lucky enough to experience it firsthand. […]