The recently leaked video of a deadly U.S. military attack in Iraq prompted many to note the footage’s similarity to a video game. Technology writer Clive Thompson tells NPR’s On the Media: Sure. Predator drone strikes, they’re highly virtualized situations, right? I mean, you have someone sitting on American soil or in a nearby country, … More War and video games
Human rights lawyer Chibli Mallat (best known for legal actions on behalf of the victims of Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein) has chosen one of our dearest and all-time most popular books as one of the top five books in “maverick political thought”: A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. (Er, Mille Plateaux, as … More Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus a top-five pick
Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University. He is author of What Is Posthumanism? (2009), the 8th installment in UMP’s Posthumanities Series. His previous books include Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” and Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory, and … More Cary Wolfe: What Is Posthumanism?
Peter Y. Paik, author of From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe, has an interview in this week’s ROROTOKO about science fiction (and speculative narratives) that portray political upheaval and revolutionary change. His book covers works across the board that include the graphic novel Watchmen; popular films such as the Matrix … More Peter Paik: Is mass violence justified if it brings about a better world?
Author Sharon Irish has filmed a wonderful book video that documents her initial interest in artist and political justice activist Suzanne Lacy. She briefly discusses how hers is a book about relationships, and narrates archival footage of Lacy’s The Crystal Quilt, which was performed by hundreds of women at the IDS Tower in downtown Minneapolis … More Interview: Sharon Irish on Suzanne Lacy (includes footage from The Crystal Quilt, Minneapolis, 1987)
Sharon Irish, an art and architecture historian who works at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is author of Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between. Suzanne Lacy is the recipient of this year’s College Art Association Lifetime Achievement award. She will join Irish next week at the CAA convention in Chicago to sign copies of the book at … More Art history, Suzanne Lacy, and the ‘spaces between’: A Q&A with Sharon Irish
For today’s feature we’ve interviewed Matthew Biro, a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan. Biro is the author of The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin, which was selected as a finalist for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award of 2010. 1: In … More Matthew Biro on The Dada Cyborg
Last week, the College Art Association announced that radical California-based artist Suzanne Lacy will be the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lacy will be formally recognized Feb. 10th at the upcoming annual CAA convention. The CAA writes: The continuum of Suzanne Lacy’s career mirrors the history of contemporary art: performance, … More Suzanne Lacy at CAA
Great news: Matthew Biro’s The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin, has been named one of four finalists for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, which honors an especially distinguished book in the history of art. Congratulations, Matthew! On a related note: Next month we will be mailing … More The Dada Cyborg
John Protevi, a professor of French studies at Louisiana State University, is author of Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic, which is the 7th installment in the University of Minnesota Press’s Posthumanities series. In this book, Protevi applies his concept of political affect to show how unconscious emotional valuing shaped three events: the … More Author Q&A: On Gilles Deleuze, philosophical tools, and "Political Affect"
