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Paris : Éditions d'art des anciennes demeures françaises, 1977.
Paris : Éditions d'art des anciennes demeures françaises, 1977.
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Vieux logis des Yvelines / Jean-Pierre Naudé des Moutis ; présentation par le duc de Brissac ; dessins de Pascal Quéré.
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Vieux logis des Yvelines / Jean-Pierre Naudé des Moutis ; présentation par le duc de Brissac ; dessins de Pascal Quéré.
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into(...)
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into(...)
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Louise Nevelson Sculpture: Drag, color, join, face
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied. Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
Louise Nevelson Sculpture: Drag, color, join, face
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In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. A Ukraine-born Jewish immigrant, Nevelson persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied. Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
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June 2023
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Contemporary Art Monographs
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, "After eating" claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an(...)
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Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, "After eating" claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an(...)
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After eating: Metabolizing the arts
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Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, "After eating" claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an artist-centered approach to nutrition, Lindsay Kelley cultivates a neglected middle ground between the everyday and the scientific, using metabolism as a lens through which to read and write about art. Divided into two parts and full of playful chapter titles such as "Food Babies" and "Poop Circus," After Eating investigates multiple facets of the sociocultural implications of body image and body process in body art from the 1970s to the present. By engaging the notion of "after" as an artistic homage or tribute, metabolism moves beyond the cell to transform into a method for responding to the most difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges of the contemporary moment. Metabolic reading rethinks feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance projects, providing artists, students, and teachers with new pathways into art theory.
After eating: Metabolizing the arts
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Food appears everywhere in the arts. But what happens after viewers carry food away in the intestinal networks activated by social practice art, the same way digestion turns food into a body? Exploring the emerging field of metabolic arts, "After eating" claims digestion and metabolism as key cultural, creative, and political processes that demand attention. Taking an artist-centered approach to nutrition, Lindsay Kelley cultivates a neglected middle ground between the everyday and the scientific, using metabolism as a lens through which to read and write about art. Divided into two parts and full of playful chapter titles such as "Food Babies" and "Poop Circus," After Eating investigates multiple facets of the sociocultural implications of body image and body process in body art from the 1970s to the present. By engaging the notion of "after" as an artistic homage or tribute, metabolism moves beyond the cell to transform into a method for responding to the most difficult cultural, philosophical, and political challenges of the contemporary moment. Metabolic reading rethinks feminist, queer, bioart, installation, and performance projects, providing artists, students, and teachers with new pathways into art theory.
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December 2023
December 2023
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Don't build, rebuild
Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to(...)
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to(...)
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Don't build, rebuild
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well. Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.
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As climate change has escalated into a crisis, the reuse of existing structures is the only way to even begin to preserve our wood, sand, silicon, and iron, let alone stop belching carbon monoxide into the air. Our housing crisis means that we need usable buildings now more than ever, but architect and critic Aaron Betsky shows that new construction—often seeking to maximize profits rather than resources, often soulless in its feel—is not the answer. Whenever possible, it is better to repair, recycle, renovate, and reuse—not only from an environmental perspective, but culturally and artistically as well. Architectural reuse is as old as civilization itself. In the streets of Europe, you can find fragments from the Roman Empire. More recently, marginalized communities from New York to Detroit—queer people looking for places to gather or cruise, punks looking to make loud music, artists and displaced people looking for space to work and live—have taken over industrial spaces created then abandoned by capitalism, forging a unique style in the process. Their methods—from urban mining to dumpster diving—now inform architects transforming old structures today.
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November 2024
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Architectural Theory
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In the guise of diva Miss Chief Eagle Testikle, Kenneth Monkman takes camp aesthetics to new extremes of political disturbance. Setting queer against straight, and both these against his dual identity as a Canadian of Cree descent, Monkman aka Miss Chief revisits the way key events in North American history have been represented. Recent performances and installations(...)
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In the guise of diva Miss Chief Eagle Testikle, Kenneth Monkman takes camp aesthetics to new extremes of political disturbance. Setting queer against straight, and both these against his dual identity as a Canadian of Cree descent, Monkman aka Miss Chief revisits the way key events in North American history have been represented. Recent performances and installations(...)
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Interpellations: three essays on Kent Monkman
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In the guise of diva Miss Chief Eagle Testikle, Kenneth Monkman takes camp aesthetics to new extremes of political disturbance. Setting queer against straight, and both these against his dual identity as a Canadian of Cree descent, Monkman aka Miss Chief revisits the way key events in North American history have been represented. Recent performances and installations featured outlandish versions of objects like Indian moccasins in museum displays, videos with tragicomic takes on Indians' as the other to colonists, and Monkman's own extraordinary paintings. Based on masterpieces of landscape and history art, these expose the repressions and fantasies grounding narratives of the winning of the West. Interpellations will be of exceptional interest to art historians and all those concerned with North American aboriginal civilization. Essays from acclaimed art historians Richard Hill, Jonathan Katz, and Todd Porterfield address issues central to Monkman's activity: among others, absurdist tactics, alternative models of time and history, the interplay of identity, sexuality, and sovereignty. A camp design with gilt-edge pages and ultra-rich color illustrations makes this book an ideal vehicle for presenting Miss Chief's rampages through art history.
Interpellations: three essays on Kent Monkman
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In the guise of diva Miss Chief Eagle Testikle, Kenneth Monkman takes camp aesthetics to new extremes of political disturbance. Setting queer against straight, and both these against his dual identity as a Canadian of Cree descent, Monkman aka Miss Chief revisits the way key events in North American history have been represented. Recent performances and installations featured outlandish versions of objects like Indian moccasins in museum displays, videos with tragicomic takes on Indians' as the other to colonists, and Monkman's own extraordinary paintings. Based on masterpieces of landscape and history art, these expose the repressions and fantasies grounding narratives of the winning of the West. Interpellations will be of exceptional interest to art historians and all those concerned with North American aboriginal civilization. Essays from acclaimed art historians Richard Hill, Jonathan Katz, and Todd Porterfield address issues central to Monkman's activity: among others, absurdist tactics, alternative models of time and history, the interplay of identity, sexuality, and sovereignty. A camp design with gilt-edge pages and ultra-rich color illustrations makes this book an ideal vehicle for presenting Miss Chief's rampages through art history.
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November 2012
November 2012
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Canadian art
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Quel art, quelle action politique possibles dans une société vouée au marché ? À cette double question, certains artistes et activistes répondent d'un pas de côté : en dehors des disciplines instituées et des routines protestataires, ils inventent des manières d'agir et de créer qui se nouent à l'articulation de la vie, de la performance, de la fête et du jeu. De même que(...)
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Quel art, quelle action politique possibles dans une société vouée au marché ? À cette double question, certains artistes et activistes répondent d'un pas de côté : en dehors des disciplines instituées et des routines protestataires, ils inventent des manières d'agir et de créer qui se nouent à l'articulation de la vie, de la performance, de la fête et du jeu. De même que(...)
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Artivisme
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Quel art, quelle action politique possibles dans une société vouée au marché ? À cette double question, certains artistes et activistes répondent d'un pas de côté : en dehors des disciplines instituées et des routines protestataires, ils inventent des manières d'agir et de créer qui se nouent à l'articulation de la vie, de la performance, de la fête et du jeu. De même que le queer pose l'existence d'un troisième genre par delà féminin et masculin, de même l'artivisme suggère qu'il existe un troisième terme entre esthétique et politique. C'est l'art festif des collectifs décidés à réenchanter la vie, l'utopie des squats et des zones d'autonomie temporaire, la fronde libertaire des hackers et artistes du Net. Ce sont les détournements du Critical Art Ensemble, de Banksy et du Billboard Liberation Front, les sabotages joyeux de la guérilla pâtissière et des Yes Men, les infiltrations de JR, les performances de Steven Cohen ou Oreet Ashery, les prêches de Reverend Billy... Toutes ces pratiques, dont l'enjeu est d'opposer l'imagination et la créativité à l'ennui, la liberté d'action à la surveillance généralisée, la révolte collective au repli individuel, s'inscrivent dans une galaxie sans frontières...
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Quel art, quelle action politique possibles dans une société vouée au marché ? À cette double question, certains artistes et activistes répondent d'un pas de côté : en dehors des disciplines instituées et des routines protestataires, ils inventent des manières d'agir et de créer qui se nouent à l'articulation de la vie, de la performance, de la fête et du jeu. De même que le queer pose l'existence d'un troisième genre par delà féminin et masculin, de même l'artivisme suggère qu'il existe un troisième terme entre esthétique et politique. C'est l'art festif des collectifs décidés à réenchanter la vie, l'utopie des squats et des zones d'autonomie temporaire, la fronde libertaire des hackers et artistes du Net. Ce sont les détournements du Critical Art Ensemble, de Banksy et du Billboard Liberation Front, les sabotages joyeux de la guérilla pâtissière et des Yes Men, les infiltrations de JR, les performances de Steven Cohen ou Oreet Ashery, les prêches de Reverend Billy... Toutes ces pratiques, dont l'enjeu est d'opposer l'imagination et la créativité à l'ennui, la liberté d'action à la surveillance généralisée, la révolte collective au repli individuel, s'inscrivent dans une galaxie sans frontières...
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December 2010
December 2010
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Art Theory
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Dominio : This is a book on architecture = Dominio: Este es un libro de arquitectura / Onnis Luque.
Dominio : This is a book on architecture = Dominio: Este es un libro de arquitectura / Onnis Luque.
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Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones, 2023.
Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones, 2023.
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Dominio : This is a book on architecture = Dominio: Este es un libro de arquitectura / Onnis Luque.
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Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones, 2023.
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Radical intimacy
Radical intimacy
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Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most(...)
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Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most(...)
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Radical intimacy
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Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all, or any of these life goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered. ''Radical intimacy'' shows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy and to transform our personal lives and in turn society as a whole. Including critiques of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more, ''Radical intimacy'' is the compassionate antidote to a callous society.
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Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve all, or any of these life goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered. ''Radical intimacy'' shows that it doesn't need to be this way. A punchy and impassioned account of inspiring ideas about alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy and to transform our personal lives and in turn society as a whole. Including critiques of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more, ''Radical intimacy'' is the compassionate antidote to a callous society.
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April 2023
April 2023
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account(...)
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account(...)
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Lost days, endless nights: Photography and film from Los Angeles
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region's history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt explores how artists as diverse as Agnès Varda, Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula, Catherine Opie, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Paul Sepuya, and Guadalupe Rosales have reimagined and reshaped our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles. The book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, ''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary
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''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' tells a history from below—an account of the lives of the forgotten and dispossessed of Los Angeles: the unemployed, the precariously employed, the evicted, the alienated, the unhoused, the anxious, the exhausted. Through an analysis of abandoned archival works, experimental films, and other projects, Andrew Witt offers an expansive account of the artists who have lived or worked in Los Angeles, delving into the region's history and geography, highlighting its racial, gender, and class conflicts. Presented as a series of nine case studies, Witt explores how artists as diverse as Agnès Varda, Dana Lixenberg, Allan Sekula, Catherine Opie, John Divola, Gregory Halpern, Paul Sepuya, and Guadalupe Rosales have reimagined and reshaped our understanding of contemporary Los Angeles. The book features portraits of those who struggle and attempt to get by in the city: dock workers, students, bus riders, petty criminals, office workers, immigrants, queer and trans activists. Set against the landscape of economic turmoil and environmental crises that shadowed the 1970s, Witt highlights the urgent need for a historical perspective of cultural retrieval and counternarrative. Extending into the present, ''Lost Days, Endless Nights'' advocates for an approach that actively embraces the works and projects that have been overlooked and evicted from the historical imaginary
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December 2024
December 2024
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Architecture and Film, Set Design
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Défaire le genre
Défaire le genre
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche(...)
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche(...)
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche indissociablement théorique et pratique : il s’agit, en s’appuyant sur les théories féministe et queer, de faire la genèse de la production du genre et de travailler à défaire l’emprise des formes de normalisation qui rendent certaines vies invivables, ou difficilement vivables, en les excluant du domaine du possible et du pensable. Par cette critique des normes qui gouvernent le genre avec plus ou moins de succès, il s’agit de dégager les conditions de la perpétuation ou de la production de formes de vie plus vivables, plus désirables et moins soumises à la violence. Judith Butler s’attache notamment à mettre en évidence les contradictions auxquelles sont confrontés ceux et celles qui s’efforcent de penser et transformer le genre. Sans prétendre toujours dépasser ces contradictions, elle suggère la possibilité de les traiter politiquement : « La critique des normes de genre doit se situer dans le contexte des vies telles qu’elles sont vécues et doit être guidée par la question de savoir ce qui permet de maximiser les chances d’une vie vivable et de minimiser la possibilité d’une vie insupportable ou même d’une mort sociale ou littérale. »
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« Faire » son genre implique parfois de défaire les normes dominantes de l’existence sociale. La politique de la subversion qu’esquisse Judith Butler ouvre moins la perspective d’une abolition du genre que celle d’un monde dans lequel le genre serait « défait », dans lequel les normes du genre joueraient tout autrement. Ce livre s’inscrit dans une démarche indissociablement théorique et pratique : il s’agit, en s’appuyant sur les théories féministe et queer, de faire la genèse de la production du genre et de travailler à défaire l’emprise des formes de normalisation qui rendent certaines vies invivables, ou difficilement vivables, en les excluant du domaine du possible et du pensable. Par cette critique des normes qui gouvernent le genre avec plus ou moins de succès, il s’agit de dégager les conditions de la perpétuation ou de la production de formes de vie plus vivables, plus désirables et moins soumises à la violence. Judith Butler s’attache notamment à mettre en évidence les contradictions auxquelles sont confrontés ceux et celles qui s’efforcent de penser et transformer le genre. Sans prétendre toujours dépasser ces contradictions, elle suggère la possibilité de les traiter politiquement : « La critique des normes de genre doit se situer dans le contexte des vies telles qu’elles sont vécues et doit être guidée par la question de savoir ce qui permet de maximiser les chances d’une vie vivable et de minimiser la possibilité d’une vie insupportable ou même d’une mort sociale ou littérale. »
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June 2023
June 2023
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