Tag Archives: Jacques Ranciere

back to the salon: trititude and tritism

A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading

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mural mural on the wall…

Can street art murals be simply too hot to handle for the public to view? Are the public funds and corporate subsidies often used to produce it any more disreputable than the same norms that permit corporations to peddle much … Continue reading

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theatre of the union: logos, pathos & a dog called sputnik

Do we call the Obama speech, his state of the union address, a seizing of the Sputnik moment. We have had Minsky moments, but a Sputnik moment? Or is this just another example of those pointy headed white intellectuals lecturing … Continue reading

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Power of the narrative: distributing the sensible

Call it the hidden hand.When the narrative breaks down the ability to pull classic trump hands from the pile.  This means of depicting the other as something suspicious; like turning over a rock with a stick and seeing what living … Continue reading

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feast and famine of pure reason

At age twenty-two in 1937, the Museum of Modern Art purchased “Feast of Pure Reason” , and Jack Levine became known as the school of Boston Expressionism. It seems hardly justified that his work would fall almost totally out of … Continue reading

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