The internet is replete with images of commodities in the process of destruction. From the homes sucked into rising tides to stuffed toys crushed between the teeth of an hydraulic press, what does such an apocolyptic sublime tell us about the relationship between the image and contemporary capitalism?
Oli Mould, author of Against Creativtiy, on the post-covid shift to aesthetic imaginaries of alternative planetary presents.
In this new edition of a classic, The Intellectual and His People, Jacques Rancière analyzes a question key to struggle: How does the intellectual relate to the masses they theorize about and, ultimately, for?
Our definitive collection on Art and Politics.
On the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Christian Sorace explores Mao's argument for combining political and aesthetic criteria when judging a work of art.
In the first part of the series Unlearning Decisive Moments of Photography, Ariella Azoulay urges us to unlearn the knowledge that calls upon us to account for photography as having its own origins, histories, practices, or futures, and to explore it as part of the imperial world that we operate in.
The sea has long been a defining feature, indeed an inevitability in Cuban art, literature, and life. Now it turns ominous.
Juliet Jacques and writer and curator Paul Clinton discuss the wave of queer radicalism that followed May 1968 in France.
By ignoring African American intellectual history, many accounts of 1968 consolidate the very segregation 1960s youth were once so determined to undo.