Commerce
Art
Work
Career
Selling Oneself
Sales
Economy
Making a Living
Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge
Identity
Discourse
Disruptions
Goods
Stuff
Land
Bodies
Food
artists
Chris Marker
Immemory
Quotes
James Benning
Twelve People
Julie Ault, "Freedom Club"
Two Cabins
Installation view (Berlin)
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Thoreau, "Solitude"
Kaczynski, "Industrial Society and Its Future"
Dick Hebdige "After Benning, after Math: 12, 13 and counting...."
events
"Mark Lombardi - Kunst und Konspiration"
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012, 18:00
Acud Berlin
Veteranenstr. 21
10119 Berlin
Michael Pisaro, Transparent City (2)
Mon, Apr. 16th, 21h
Naherholung Sternchen: Berolinastr 7
performed by Konzert Minimal
Quentin Meillassoux:
Thur, Apr. 19th, 19h
"Iteration and repetition:
Ontology of the meaningless sign"
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Friday, Apr. 20th, 11 - 14h
Workshop Series:
"Contemporary Materialism,
Realism, and Metaphysics"
Altensteinstr. 2-4
INSTITUT FÜR RAUMEXPERIMENTE:
Wed, Apr 25th, 18:00
"GLASAUGE"
Workshop: Ray Brassier
Fri, May 4th, 11 - 14
“Representation and Picturing”
Altensteinstr. 2-4
Movie at my place: May 22nd, 7PM - 11PM
Mehringdamm 60 "Kervezee"
Chris Marker, "Le fond de l'air est rouge"
Week 12 (last class): "Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film" (Trevor Stark)
Week 11: “We Need a Popular Discipline”- Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative (Badiou inteview), and (optionally) ''Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open'' (David Foster Wallace).
No class this week, July 2nd
Week 10: Haben und Brauchen Manifesto, and Art in Defense of Democracy (Jonas Staal)
Week 9: David Graeber, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Economic Relations"
Week 8: Maggie Nelson, "The Art of Cruelty", chapters 1 & 2
Week 7: Badiou's talk on his ''15 These on Contemporary Art'', and as an option, ''Only One World''
Week 6: Pisaro Interview, and his paper, "Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"
Week 5: Dan Graham Conversation Series
Week 4: Badiou, "May 68" & "This Crisis is the Spectacle" (note, I didn't include part 2)
"Commerce by Artists" by Luis Jacob
Week 3: Rancière, "Mallarmé", chapters 1 - 2
Week 1: Baudrillard, Intelligence of Evil, Chapters 1 and 2, plus the chapter ''Contemporary Art: Art Contemporary with Itself.''
*Bonus: Groys, Going Public, "Comrades of Time"
**Alternative: Benning, start with "Twelve People"
L'Aveu
readings
Cinema in the Hands of the People: Chris Marker, the Medvedkin Group, and the Potential of Militant Film (Trevor Stark)
David Foster Wallace
Maggie Nelson
Michael Pisaro
Interview with MP
"Eleven Theses on the State of New Music"
John Berger
Boris Groys
going public
Jean Baudrillard
the intelligence of evil or the lucidity pact
Alain Badiou
David Graeber
Jacques Rancière
mallarmé