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Anthony McCall
selections from part 6 of ‘Sparing with the Spectacle’
BRANDEN JOSEPH
As noted, when discussing “Long Film for Four Projectors” McCall
Consistently chose not to emphasize the installation’s spatial or
sculptural effects for themselves so much as for their impact upon the
viewers, specifically the manner in which they disrupted the
audience’s identity as a defined or unified entity. [...]
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Notes on Drawing
Richard Serra
When I was twenty, I traveled to Mexico City via Guadalajara to see the murals of Diego Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros. After having particularly studied Orozco’s murals in the Hospicio Cabanas in Guadalajara and in the courtyard of the Colegio Grande in Mexico City, I was convinced that the Mexican muralists, in grappling with [...]
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from Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
FRIEDRICH KITTLER
The whole Spectrum of sound from infra- to ultrasound is, as was the case with Kafka’s mice, not art, but an expression of life. It finally allows modern detection to locate submarines wherever they may be, or tank brigades where they are not. The great musicologist Hornbostel had already spent [...]
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Symbolic Capital Management
or what to do with the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
HANS HAACKE
When I looked up the key word “culture” in Bartlett’s collection of memorable quotes, I discovered the startling phrase “When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.”
I did not find the decidedly less militant phrase “When I [...]
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SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT DRUGS
FELIX GUATIARI
Translated by Mark S. Roberts
The most important thing is to subvert the simplistic attitudes taken toward the phenomenon of drugs whether in terms of a medicalized view or in terms of psychological, sociological, or criminological ones. These simplistic attitudes are deeply rooted in all of these “specializations.”
One cannot separate the [...]
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Actors/Agents:
Bertolt Brecht and the Politics of Secrecy
written by EVA HORN
In modernity, political secrecy is something fishy. While for centuries circumspect rulers and skilled generals practiced the art of secrecy to implement and secure their power, the modern ideal of political transparency is suspicious of every state secret. Whatever governments keep secret, whatever is not exposed [...]
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