He cannot talk to his father about Our Library of the Future, but even if he could, I don’t know if he would be able to. There is a (radical?) softness to his openness to the flow of books from here to there, not to mention my presence as a narrator of sorts, that questions […]
The exhibition “Voyage around my Room” curated by Kika Kyriakakou (with production coordinator Vicky Tsirou), took place between March 18th and May 2nd this year at the Athens Municipality Arts Center in Parko Eleftherias. Conflating Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1926) and Xavier de Maistre’s Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre (1794), the […]
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 […]
A component of the work of both Daniel G. Andújar and Martha Rosler discussed in our last two posts that seems to be missing from both Group Material’s Democracy and the call for papers in the panel “Democratising Classics”, is their use of humor to reveal the problems with democratic institutions, especially at the level […]
From January 2017 (“From this day forward, it’s only going to be America first, America first.”) to January 2018 (“America first, doesn’t mean America alone”), we have been suffering Trump’s monotonous solution meant to pivot from what he dubbed ‘this American carnage’ (aka anything prior to Trumptime). The doomsday phrase ‘American carnage’ sent journalists scurrying […]
Please allow me to remind you, it’s always your business. I am your business just as our business belongs to us. Public transit seduces me with a fantasy of who we work, who we channel, in the service of. It prevents abstraction to “the human race” with all the horrible spirits lurking in its utterance. […]
Given that I am teaching two courses about ancient philosophy as a way of life it is somewhat understandable that I’m obsessed with the ‘Consumer Reports’ published on the Art News website. Each report tracks a day in the life of a contemporary artist, not necessarily focused on what they do or make, but on […]