Etarea City Designed in 1967 for a site near Prague, Czechoslovakia, and exhibited that year at the Montreal Expo, Etarea was to be a city of 135,000 inhabitants, where the conveniences of automated infrastructure would satisfy future socialist generations. Etarea placed the question of meaning at centre stage. Meaning in architecture was considered in terms …
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Thinking on Screen – Films About Philosophers
Antonio Negri – A Revolt that Never Ends BADIOU Derrida: The Documentary Gramsci: Everything that Concerns People Hannah Arendt Jean-Paul Sartre et Simone de Beauvoir Living in the End Times (According to Slavoj Zizek) Marx Reloaded The Ister Adi Shankarachaary Conversation of The World – Valentin Y. Mudimbe and Boaventura de Sousa Santos Мераб Мамардашвили\Merab …
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Sick Planet
A Sick Planet — Guy Debord Is racism an environmental threat? — Ghassan Hage The book argues that the classifications and the practices that constitute colonial racism and the practices that have generated the destruction of the natural environment are mutually self-reinforcing because they share a common root: they have a common mode of existence …
Poetic Justice
Nina Simone on the Role of the Artist Interviewer: You want your art to live on long after you? Nina Simone: Oh yes. Interviewer: And your music says this, and it speaks to Black people. I want you to tell me what your gut feeling is about. Nina Simone: Well, look, off the top of …
Dissent as an Event in Art
Carla Lonzi, Art Critic – Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) – An Excerpt It wasn’t an interest in art, my interest that is, at the beginning, I have to tell the truth, if I retrace the steps from the very beginning it comes out that I immediately had this existential feeling, like a warning from within, but my …
In the Time of Coronavirus: Thoughts from Naples and Belgrade
On Pessimism and Optimism in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic — Dušan Grlja from Beton Beton (Concrete), from Belgrade, was a joint cultural and artistic endeavour of the members of the original editorial board. We understood the editorial office primarily as an intermediary (how else), which, following its poetic determinants, would provide an organized, well-thought-out …
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Films of protest/rebellion/revolution
October: Ten Days That Shook the World, 1927 This film is the final part of director Sergei Eisenstein’s trilogy. He admitted that the revolution had “given him the most precious of all things: It made him an artist.” Chapaev, 1934 This is a film by the Vasiliev brothers about self-sacrificing Red Army commander Vasily Chapaev, …
Poetry of the Revolution
Aesthetic mode of production as reversal – “retournement”
By aesthetic mode of production we understand the combination of factors whose effect is to operate the reversal. To operate the reversal means to give an ideological function to certain real-imaginary elements that are regionally produced by a historically determined state of the aesthetic process. We might say that art repeats in the real the …
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