Teachers Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Double Time Banana Slapstick

26th February 2018Minus Plato Return Reform Refresh, No Philosopher King DraftAllan Sekula, Banksy, Claudia La Rocca, Jérôme Bel, Melissa Vogley Woods, Mette Edvardsen, Muntadas, Nari Ward, Ralph Lemon, Selfie Culture Class, Steven Parrino, Tino Sehgal, William E. Jones, Xavier Le RoyMinus Plato

Today’s post is like that moment in Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape when Krapp eats a banana and, several minutes later, slips on the peel he left on the floor. But in place of Krapp, we want you to imagine Trump, and for the banana, a gun. Maybe Banksy can help us visualize this: Arming teachers, […]

Diogenes vs. Zeno: Jérôme Bel’s “The Show Must Go On”

13th March 2017Diogenes, Jérôme Bel, Minus Plato Today, ZenoCynic, Diogenes of Sinope, Eleatic, Jérôme Bel, Zeno ParadoxMinus Plato

When the Eleatics denied motion, Diogenes, as everyone knows, came forward as an opponent. He literally did come forward, because he did not say a word but merely paced back and forth a few times, thereby assuming that he had sufficiently refuted them. – Kierkegaard Repetition p. 131.