We Are Displayed, We Explode, in Silence

27th October 2021The Library of the Future, Uncategorizeddocumenta 14, Maria Eichhorn, Neue Galerie, Odette Dasonville, Paul Drori, Rose Valland Institute, Sarah Gensburger, The Kabbalah, Valeria LuiselliMinus Plato

Beware! If you play at ghosts, you become one. – Anon., The Kabbalah quoted as the epitaph to Valeria Luiselli “Face in the Crowd”, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2014. Here is perhaps the most important observation that I have made since I became a library’s ghost: his so-called ‘living’ library, from which I direct his […]

Restless Souls Wise Teeth: Doug Aitken’s Animals and Valeria Luiselli’s Workers

13th October 2017Minus Plato TodayAnimals, Doug Aitken, Plato, Platonic psychology, Rebeka Campos-Astorkiza, Valeria Luiselli, Wisdom teethMinus Plato

My struggles, bared teeth, growls, howls, and so on, look and sound no different to those of a bear, badger, or what have you. And Plato ought to agree, I think, that my struggles are not merely similar to the animal’s struggles, but that they arise from the same psychological source. Plato, of all people, […]