With Latin America in Trump’s cross-hairs, a report from Buenos Aires on the social stalemate that allowed far-right ...
A key question, however, is rarely asked: what does ‘material interest’ mean? On closer inspection the term takes on a ...
Gabriele Pedullà on Tom Geue, Major Corrections. Intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro, who brought the tools of ...
Critical analyses of AI usually adopt a stance of defensive humanism. Instead, Nan Da interrogates its mode of reasoning. How ...
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My interest in the subject of biennials and their participants’ national affiliations dates back to the Taipei Biennial of 2004, the fourth such event in our city, and my reaction to a curatorial ...
when i settle down to write to you, I feel somehow “freer” than usual. The reason, I suppose, is that most of the time I am writing for people whose ambiguities and values I imagine to be rather ...
Before I first went to university I had a belief, which I still have, and which is probably shared by the great majority of you.footnote * I mean the belief that the way to decide whether a given ...
Cities are secondary, derivative, mimetic places. The future appears first in the countryside. This was the iconoclastic argument made by Rem Koolhaas in his 2020 Guggenheim exhibition, ‘Countryside, ...
When last we heard from Thomas Pynchon, it was the Year of Our Lord 2013. Charismatic neoliberal Barack Obama had recently defeated generic plutocrat Mitt Romney to win a second term. Whistleblower ...
Doe t’express his loue and friending to you, God willing, shall not lacke: Let us goe in together, And still your fingers on your lippes, I pray. The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight, That ever ...
The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote * It already has a long history, in other words. It ...