Afterall Journal 46 Contents Foreword– Anca Rujoiu Contextual Essays Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Premises for Burmese Contemporary Art with Po Po, Tun Win Aung, Wah Nu and Min Thein Sung– Yin Ker Cultural Marxists Like Us– Sven Lütticken Beyond Essentialism: Contemporary Moana Art from Aotearoa New Zealand– Lana Lopesi […]
Too General or Arcane? Didactic or Funny? Introducing The Digital Democratising Classics Library: Maggenti: I think that the tension that emerges around AIDS is that it’s not a gay disease, right? But, in fact, there are a lot of gay men who have AIDS. So, in fact, it’s gay/lesbian people who are doing the work […]
Show me the Money! Classics, taste and the well-to-do middle class In the futuristic dreams of the ad men of the twenties, there soon would be a world in which ads would provide a common idiom of expression; language and communication would take on the role of constant selling; and the ongoing discontent with things […]
Judgment on Trial: Ancient Myths and Modern Ideologies The courtroom has always been a charged symbolic site; legal process and crime now dominate the popular imagination to an unprecedented extent. There televised trials and televised manhunts, encouraging the fantasy of “solving” crime by forcing individual criminals through the mangle of publicity. Politics and crime are […]
Whose Canon? Bringing Iphigenia and Plato Closer to Home [T]he canon, that transparent decanter of Western values – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “Whose Canon is it, anyway?”, in Group Material Democracy (Education and Democracy section), p. 72. Dominant ideologies, usually with a nationalistic streak, have used the classical canon as a propaganda machine—primarily through […]
We have been mulling over the following sentence from the call for papers of the “Democratising Classics” panel: Who was and is tasked with the translation of ancient works, with teaching others about classical antiquity, and with shaping the future of the subject? While there is a great deal to unpack here, today we want […]
After a week’s break, following our wrapping up of ‘Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh’ and the first draft of our forthcoming book No Philosopher King: An Ancient Guide to Art and Life under Trump, we are now ready to dive into the next project. It is called Our Ancient Group Material and it comprises our […]
We have only allocated an hour to write this post, so we don’t have time to discuss that infamous memo (we mean here the Nunes memo, not Trump himself) Given this time-crunch we’re merely going to see how the posts from our allocated two week period from last year (Jan. 23-Feb 5) fit into the […]
Carmen Herrera Untitled, 1952. Museum of Modern Art. The Athenian is no Plaster-of-Paris man, nor cast-iron either, the exact equivalent of every other Athenian, as every Spartan was of every other stupid Spartan. Athens was not reproducing a pattern; she was not copying the ways of her neighbours, she was giving them an ideal; and […]
