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A Note: On Apocalypse, Moby-Dick & Job
[Originally posted over at my joint, but given the meandering path it took into things religious I thought I'd cross-post it here.] Dear _______, Your note has made my day, and it’s only yet 9 a.m. It...
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Neoliberalism and Real Socialism
It’s often said that socialism is the arduous path from capitalism back to capitalism, but Blood and Treasure suggests that neoliberalism is the arduous path toward Eastern bloc-style “real socialism.”...
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Renegade Aesthetics – an InterCcECT reading group
The aesthetic resistance to theory. Aesthetic indistinction. The aesthetic that theorizes itself. The sensitivities and perceptions that exceed theoretical vision. (Not) knowing it when you see it....
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Creepiness as an aesthetic judgment
[The following is a segment from a draft introduction for Creepiness, which did not seem to fit very well with the rest of the argument.] Anyone who undertakes to define creepiness faces seemingly...
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How useful is Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art for art criticism? (Part 1)
This week in my humanities course, we’re following up the music unit with a unit on visual art woven together with Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art. It’s spread over three days, and I...
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Sculpture and the Uncanny Valley
In this era of increasingly accurate 3D computer imagery, animators have come up against a problem known as the “uncanny valley” — after a certain point, the closer to accurate 3D imagery is, the...
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Rilke on visual art: An executive summary
In Shimer’s fine arts class, we typically do a unit on Cézanne that includes a selection of Rilke’s letters written after a particularly vivid encounter with an exhibition of Cézanne’s art. Out of...
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tear it down: The Undercommons
Amidst growing protests against systemic and state-administered premature death, and beyond #hashtagactivism, calls for a new black radicalism are resounding. In The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning...
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revisiting Cartographies of the Absolute: a lecture by Alberto Toscano and...
What must a map of the world depict? What aesthetic forms can “map” late capitalism, critically disclosing its dynamics and its totalizations? What is the difference, aesthetically and politically,...
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InterCcECT presents Casablanca Retro: Colonial Photography, History, and...
Through what processes of mediation, under what circumstances, down which paths of struggle, can colonialist iconography be appropriated for anti-colonial nationalism? What are the wages of the image...
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