‘A Revolution We Can All Dance To’ (Part 2)

by Andrew Robinson, Samuel Grove
Rhizomes and Revolution: Andrew Robinson discusses the implications of Deleuze’s political philosophy for revolutionary organisation.

http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/a_revolution_we_can_all_dance_to_part_2

Writing Exercise Re-View

Mark Ingham's avatarWriting as Practice

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CTS 2 option Writing as Practice

In the next two weeks you are to write a review of and exhibition, film, play or any ‘cultural event’ of between 200 and 500 words,. It must include images and can include moving images and links to other resources.

Reviews of this sort, as with a great deal of writing, are often divided into three distinction sections.

  1. The first section describes what the cultural event’ comprises of. The artist/designer/cultural producer, the venue the objects are described in enough detail for a reader to be able to understand what the cultural event’ is about. In this review you are to use as many images as you like, that are your own or from other reviews.
  2. The second section situates the work on display in a number of relevant contexts. This can be, but not limited to, historical, political, sociological and conceptual contextualisation. You can…

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The virtual is not the immaterial

aparsons474's avatarinformed matters

On Friday 30 September 2016, at the Iklectic Art Lab near Waterloo, London, the Informed Matters community of practice held its first symposium. It was entitled “Material Others and Other Materialities”. A Storify-cation of the Symposium can be found at https://storify.com/anotherwindle/informed-matters-flusser-and-bec

In the first presentation of the Phenomenological Materialities panel, Ken Wilder in a paper entitled “The Immateriality of Titian’s Pesaro Altarpiece”, posed the question of how the seemingly ‘immaterial’ (cloud) could be represented (in a material medium, that of paint) so that it could serve as the ground (a material metaphor) for the ascendancy of the Virgin Mary from the material realm to the spiritual (‘immaterial’) realm. His talk was therefore densely allegorical, but allegorical as a mode of the critical relation, while also seeking to show that this seemingly ‘immaterial’ ground and this seemingly ‘immaterial’ destination are themselves grounded in the institution of the Catholic Church, which is…

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