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November 19, 2008
Speculative Controversy
Nathan Brown replies to Peter Hallward's Review (in Radical Philosophy 152) of Quentin Meillassoux's After Finitude : on Speculative Heresy
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EPISODE
Information on an upcoming London event at which Collapse contributor Graham Harman will be speaking:
EPISODE: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media
A one-day conference at Tate Britain
Friday 28th November 2008 10.00 - 1800
Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1A
£35 (£25 concessions), booking recommended
Includes drinks reception at the launch of the new book:
'Episode: Pleasure and Persuasion in Lens-based Media', published by Artwords Press.
For tickets call 020 7887 8888
or visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/symposia/
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Media-culture is an undeniable force in our lives. Its pervasive and pleasurable power has primarily been located in discourses on 'spectacle' and the persistent connections between technology and power in democracy. But when artworks can be seen to share the same experiential field as media-culture, both using and producing a media-culture, the question of how our experiences of it constitute the political is now imperative. How do media-culture and artworks, and the spaces they inhabit, produce and reform the naturalised and assumed realities of everyday praxis?
The research group Curating Video present a one-day conference on Friday 28th November 2008 at Tate Britain inviting nine speakers from the fields of visual arts, art history, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore a new matrix of issues that have become crucial to the understanding of the affect of mediated images in our lives. Rethinking the power of fact that images generate, this conference seeks to put forth new dialogues, strategies and propositions to explore what is
now at stake for a politics of the mediated image.
Speakers include:
Bridget Crone, Director, Media Art Bath;
Dr. Graham Harman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Philosophy,
American University in Cairo, Egypt;
Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Director, Arts & Humanities Research
Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London;
Dr. Sharon Kivland, artist & Reader in Fine Art, Sheffield
Hallam University;
Professor Norman Klein, California Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, USA;
Dr. Suhail
Malik, Critical Studies Course Leader for Postgraduate Fine Art in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths,
University of London;
Dr. Philippe-Alain Michaud, Film Curator, Musée national d'Art Moderne, Centre
Georges-Pompidou, Paris;
Dr. Uriel Orlow, artist & AHRC research fellowship in Creative Arts at the
University of Westminster;
Dr. Johanna Sumiala, Lecturer at the Department of Communication,
University of Helsinki, Finland.
Throughout the day, three panels will each be chaired by Dr. Amanda Beech, Dr. Jaspar Joseph Lester, and
Matthew Poole.
October 24, 2008
New Umelec
The new issue of Umelec is now available, including an article 'Unfolding the Middle-East' by Collapse editor Robin Mackay on the work of Kristen Alvanson (see Collapse II and IV).
More information and ordering here
Full contents:
YES OR NO Ivan Mečl
IT'S ABOUT ILLUMINATION, STUPID -THE POLITICS OF ART IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Damira Arsenijevic
POST-WAR DREAMS FROM SARAJEVO (Interview with Šejla Kamerić) Michal Koleček
Q: AGAINST THE CURRENT Lenka Vítková
STELLA MARIS KW
XYZ - ALL THAT'S IMPORTANT ...IS WITHIN YOUR REACH Daniel Grun
OUT Ivan Mečl
THC REVIEW AND THE CONDEMNED PAST Ivan Mečl
COUCH POTATO BY TRADE Viki Shock
SOLITAIRES AND THE CULTURAL PERIPHERY Josef Jindrák
POET'S GRAVE-DIGGER Andrej Bažant
WAR WITH PUTTI S.d.Ch
GENIUS OF MEDIOCRITY S.d.Ch
6 x STRIP Unseen
SECOND CULTURE IN AMERICA Ivan Mečl, Milan Kohout
ENGRAVED SNAPSHOT: JITKA MIKULICOVA William Hollister
ZUZANA VANSOVá Zuzana Vansová
PUNKS NOT DEAD Tony Ozuna
A PLACE IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE: MARIA LASSNIG Lenka Vítková
UNFOLDING THE MIDDLE EAST: KRISTEN ALVANSON'S NONAD Robin Mackay
REGULATIONS Jarmila Šubrtová
HOW DOES CREATIVE EDUCATION LOOK, CHILDREN? Katarína Galajdová, Dagmar Fuxová
ARTISTIC EDUCATION IN MEXICO; BETWEEN DISREGARD AND SUBORDINATION Hector Villarreal
TAKAO KIMURA Spunk Seipel
UTOPIAS UNDER HERITAGE PROTECTION HANSAVIERTEL DISTRICT OF BERLIN Tomas Ullman
HYBRIDRAUM - SEVEN DIRECTIONS FOR THE CITY OF TODAY Folke Köbberling, Martin Kaltwasser
FULLNESS, PLURALITY, AND INNER FREEDOM (Interview with Jirí Pribáň) Ivan Mečl,
CULTURE CHOKES; ART LIBERATES ART'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE PUBLIC'S FURIES Jirí Pribáň
VISION OF A CZECH CULTURAL APOCALYPSE IN TWO ACTS Ivan Mečl
EGON'S PROPHECY Milan Kozelka
THE VYŠEHRAD SÉANCE OR THE SECRET JOURNEY OF K. H. MáCHA AND V. HANKA S.d.Ch
