Ever since I watched it, I have wanted to write about Jean-Luc Godard’s 2004 film Notre Musique. Set in Sarajevo, it tells the story of two women – Olga and Judith – and debates ideas of violence, ethics, colonialism, the Other and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. The main reason that I obsessed over the film was […]
After yesterday’s post on Simone Weil’s Electra, I realized that I had not explained how my essay in progress related to the dynamic between Classics and Contemporary Art. All will be revealed in due course and, in the meantime, each of my posts this week will attempt to lead us there, and today is the […]
After a week away, with no internet, no email and no updates on twittering Twump’s transition team, I am back with my Minus Plato daily postings. They will be shorter and sweeter than usual until the new year as I have an essay to write on Simone Weil’s use of ancient Greek and Roman ideas […]
This will be my last post for a week or so as I am going offline to recharge my batteries, and so putting on hold the experiment of blogging every day since Thanksgiving (President Obama said to mourn until Thanksgiving, but these posts have still been their own modest works of mourning). Until I return […]
The only way I could get my hands on R. H. Quaytman’s early book-work Allegorical Decoys was by the circuitous route of Ohio State Libraries’ Interlibrary Loan system. When it finally arrived this morning, I discovered that I was not able to check the book out of the library and so I had to read […]
If, like me, you can barely contain your excitement for the opening of documenta 14 next year – first in Athens in April, followed by Kassel in June – then I recommend preparing yourself by reading the first three issues of South as a State of Mind – the Greek art and culture journal, which […]
I just read the philosopher Alain Badiou’s essay in the new book Intersubjectivity Vol. 1: Language and Misunderstanding, published by Sternberg Press. There is lots to chew on in this exciting volume – and I am sure to return to it. It includues Cory Arcangel on misunderstanding, another ‘variation from Paul Chan’s New New Testament […]
For today’s post, since it is exam week, I pose the following question: Do you need to read Homer’s Odyssey to fully appreciate the net art classic My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (or MBCBFTW) (1996), by Russian artist Olia Lialina? Answer with reference to other digital art forms and projects, including the idea […]
You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town He’s making a list, Checking it twice; Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town […]
While I have had Los Angeles on my mind in general recently, there have been two reasons in particular. First I encountered the luscious catalogue for Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only exhibition at the Wexner Store and secondly I participated in the LACA benefit auction (there is a small connection between the […]