My favourite symbol is the Tree of Life. The human race is the trunk and branches of this tree and individual humans are the leaves, which appear for one season, flourish for a summer and then die. I am like a leaf of this tree, and one day I shall decay and fall, and become […]
Paul B. Preciado writes in his lecture/report to a psychoanalytic Academy Can the Monster Speak?: Today, once monstrous bodies produced by the patriarchal-colonial regime of sex, gender and sexual difference speak for themselves and produce knowledge about themselves. Echoing Kafka’s Red Peter in his short story ‘A Report to an Academy’, Preciado describes how through […]
I started typing out these thoughts as an Instagram post, only to stop myself, copy and paste them here, and continue to write them as a Minus Plato post instead. As I continue to post, repost, amplify and comment on Instagram, I too often forget that one reason I started this blog in the first […]
Minus Plato’s Parler Clair Radio (which you can hear streaming on this site) is now streaming Radio Alhara and The Sonic Liberation Front in solidarity with Palestine. Radio Alhara have together with a group of sound platforms and sound artists started The Sonic Liberation Front in order to create one sound for Palestine. Minus Plato stands with Palestinian […]
[No, the title isn’t the obvious pun (hole for whole), although if you read it quickly another, less tangible pun may emerge. The post you are about to read is in fact a hole. And no, not ‘like a hole’, but a real hole, in and of itself. Before I begin, let me offer you […]
Politics aside (ha!), how many times during your virtual travels through Pandemic Land have you stumbled across some website or other and thought to yourself ‘Well, this looks good’, only to realize, a few clicks in, that your attention hits an impasse (it only runs skin-deep) and so you move your cursor on? So much […]
Taking public matters into your own stained cybergloves again? – suppose the bearded sage avatar braying (to the tune of REM’s Everybody Hurts (sometimes/So hold on, hold on), whom the social media managers of Agorapulse canceled. With what qualifications? Do tell us the answer, great Trump fluffer Joshy, share your insight, discharged, no doubt, as […]
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Burning Landscape II, 2019 Burning Landscape III, 2019 Burning Landscape VI, 2019 Drawing inspiration from the poem “Incendio” by Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the massive tapestries depict burning landscapes releasing heavy smoke. But what is the smoke signal about? Using a technique called “steganography” commonly employed by hackers and activists to […]
Links: NOTES: Elegy for Annie Pootoogook (1969–2016) by Candice Hopkins https://www.documenta14.de/en/notes-and-works/1053/elegy-for-annie-pootoogook-1969-2016- Links: ARTISTS: Sanja Iveković https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13552/sanja-ivekovic SOUTH Issue #9 (documenta 14 #4): Lost and Found by Susan Hiller https://www.documenta14.de/en/south/25219_lost_and_found CALENDAR: The Society of Friends of Halit: An homage to Pavlos Fyssas https://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/25022/an-homage-to-pavlos-fyssas Links: PUBLIC EDUCATION: Interview with Narimane Mari https://www.documenta14.de/en/public-education/25831/interview-with-narimane-mari VENUES: Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality […]