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 […]
Another day, another book. On and on and on. Look at this one! Turn to page 38. Feel the texture of the pages. Wait this reminds me of another book. One second while I reach for it. And on and on and on. One books leads to another, until there is a pile of books. […]
Tune to 51:45 to hear these words for yourself and the whole episode via Ginger Dunnill’s Broken Boxes Podcast
I could go on to the ‘trinkets’ sold by market traders and street peddlers. But that would be a whole other story. – Lina Bo Bardi What gets lost in translation? How might improvised actions and conversations, as well as collective thought experiments, invite us to engage with the seemingly unimportant/invisible structural and atmospheric aspects […]
You marvel at the dragon its scales used for shields and ask how – if there is only one dragon who protects their world at the movie’s end they came by the scales? He explains: ‘They were shed’ “The Ingenuousness of the Child” – cf. Anarchist Education and the Modern School Each weekend he joins […]
RADICAL PEDAGOGY IS NOT about narcissism Narcissus is always looking for her/his/their own reflection self-reflecting: Hey guys! Something with your eyes! Decolonize your guise! Does size matter, otherwise? De-phallocentricize? De-logocentricize? De-anthropocentricize? De-centricize Za-zee-zy-ci-say-wi-fi-csi-9-see-centric Eccentric like a clown, like a fool gettin’ down Like the shepherd gettin’ laid, am I overpaid? From ‘RADICAL PEDAGOGY’, the collective […]
No School is a biographical turn for an education that focuses on individuals rather than on a de-humanized economic-based system. from Ilse Owens, Fabiola Camuti & Betje Stevens (eds) ‘No School Manifesto: A Movement of Creative Education’ (Valiz, 2020).
With these dispatches steadily accumulating, as the books move from shelf to shelf or from shelf to bag to car to office to floor, I think it is time to reveal something that I have been holding back until now. My haunting of Lucius Fletcher’s living library – yes, that is now the name I […]
