December 2011
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too. much: nicolas bourriaud. claire bishop. james clifford. chantal mouffe. foucault. hakim bey. mary nooter roberts. zizek. bakhtin. benjamin.
TOO MUCH IN MY HEAD.
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“There is an aesthetic dimension in the political and there is a political dimension in art… From the point of view of the theory of hegemony, artistic practices play a role in the constitution and maintenance of a given symbolic order or in its challenging and this is why they necessarily have a political dimension… The real issue concerns the possible forms of critical art, the...
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City of London Police include Occupy movement on... →
City of London Police have sparked controversy by producing a brief in which the Occupy London movement is listed under domestic terrorism/extremism threats to City businesses.
Picture- Occupy LSX
The document was given to protesters at their “Bank of Ideas” base on Sun Street – a former site of financial corporation UBS. City police have stepped up an effort to quell the movement since...
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“THE ASSOCIATION FOR ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHY calls for a boycott of all products marketed under the Shibboleth of LITE—beer, meat, lo-cal candy, cosmetics, music, pre-packaged “lifestyles,” whatever.
The concept of LITE (in Situ-jargon) unfolds a complex of symbolism by which the Spectacle hopes to recuperate all revulsion against its commodification of desire....
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“To paraphrase Allan Kaprow: life in a gallery is like fucking in a cemetery. We could add that things become even worse as the gallery spills back into life: as the gallery/cemetery invades life, one begins to feel unable to fuck anywhere else.”
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Instead of sanding and staining my final sculpture, I got drunk and made a poorly edited and overly- lengthy video. I’ll say it’s a response to this.
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for finals, download this →
(see ya tomorrow, tumblr)
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yes yes yes yes yes yes yes →
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Shameless self promotion of some photos I just processed and have posted on my other tumblr is about to start— brace yourself. I barely have any followers on there so I’m just trying to get a few of the photos out of the abyss that is my photo/ poetry tumblr…
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“The fundamental level of ideology is not of an illusion masking the real state of things but that of an (unconscious) fantasy structuring our social reality itself. And at this level, we are of course far from being a post-ideological society. Cynical distance is just one way – one of many ways – to blind ourselves to the structuring power of ideological fantasy: even if we do not take...
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