Susan Buck-Morss
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English version of interview with Annett Busch and Anselm Franke, curators of "After Year Zero" exhibition in MoMA Warsaw (summer 2015). This is EXTENDED VERSION of the conversation, so far unpublished
What does it mean to practice art in an epoch of its impossibility and continuing necessity?
This article critically assesses the recent return of “communism” in contemporary political theory. The principal focus is Alain Badiou’s formulation of the “idea of communism” and its “sequences,” which are approached here in relation to... more
Existe uma experiência de horror às histórias em quadrinhos. Uma experiência que não se resume a Fredric Wertham e as campanhas antiquadrinhos que tomaram boa parte do mundo nos anos 1950. Da mesma forma, o horror não é restrito a um... more
PDF z całą książką. Praca ta ma dwa ściśle ze sobą związane cele. Po pierwsze, wbrew interpretacjom sprowadzającym myśl Benjamina do koncepcji Gershoma Scholema, Theodora Adorno czy Bertolta Brechta, próbuje dotrzeć do autora stawiającego... more
Despite the multitude of filmmakers and characters that wander these urban environments, locating revelatory findings in its spatial-imaginary as they do, the flâneur remains a surprisingly underdeveloped concept in film theory. A... more
This article sets out from an analysis of the pioneering work of Susan Buck-Morss to rethink, not only Hegel and Haiti, but broader questions surrounding dialectics and the universal brought to light by the Haitian Revolution. Reading... more
Esej i po części recenzja książki "Hegel, Haiti i historia uniwersalna" Susan Buck-Morss
How might one theorize the limits of one’s knowledge without merely acknowledging that such limits are contingent upon one’s ways of learning-in-the-world? And what if one’s ways of learning—often disciplined into a discipline such as... more
key words: 1960s, repetition, Lars von Trier, Five Obstructions, Jorgen Leth, The Perfect Human, Walter Benjamin, Susan Buck-Morss, anaesthetization of aesthetics, capitalism, senses, synaesthetic human, Albert Hofmann, LSD
Este ensaio analisa um fragmento da parte final da obra inacabada de Thomas Mann, Confissões do impostor Felix Krull, parte na qual o narrador impostor conta a visita que fez ao Museu de História Natural de Lisboa, guiado pelo professor... more
This article discusses the ongoing pertinence to the present of Fredric Jameson's work on postmodernism in the context of recent elaborations of “the contemporary” and “contemporaneity” in art history, theory and criticism. It is argued... more
What I will argue in this paper is that Benjamin’s concept “aesthetics of destruction” has raised itself to a whole new ideology, what I would like to call the “aesthetics of human extinction” in the thought experiment Earth Without... more
The study inquires on the ways content-specific social media pages can function as alternative public spheres, by examining the photography-orientated Facebook and YouTube pages entitled ‘old photographs of Thessaloniki’. The study... more
En esa conversación, la pensadora norteamericana fue invitada a revisar su historia como lectora de Walter Benjamin y a actualizar esas discusiones en su producción más reciente y en la discusión con otros nombres del pensamiento... more
Il volume offre una ricognizione storico-teorica sul concetto di trauma, da meccanismo psichico patologico (individuato sul finire dell’Ottocento in ambito clinico) a dinamica caratterizzante della storia contemporanea, della produzione... more
In this article, I try to outline a new strategy for the universalization of history, which emerges from an analysis of the modern Jewish practice of philosophizing. I call it a Marrano strategy, building an analogy between the religious... more
Resumen: Se indaga en torno a la intoxicación voluntaria, dentro de un programa general encaminado a la experimentación con el propio cuerpo, método que encuentra sus fundamentos en la idea de la medicina romántica donde, según... more
Il cinema come termometro dell’immaginario, ricettacolo di ossessioni e paure dell’epoca contemporanea: è questo lo snodo centrale del volume di Antonietta Buonauro, una lettura piacevole che si muove in maniera disinvolta tra l’arte, la... more
En el presente artículo se defiende la tesis de que la concepción del sueño de Sigmund Freud ejerció una significativa influencia en la idea de interpretación de las producciones culturales de relevantes teóricos críticos de la cultura... more
The book 'Socjalistyczny postkolonializm. Rekonsolidacja pamięci' (Socialist Postcolonialism: Memory Reconsolidation) is about the Polish postcolonial tradition of before 1989, which has been blanked out of memory. The year 2000, i.e.,... more
Image information and copy rights : Image Lübke & Serrau, Sculpture of the Laokoon Group, 1908 / Design Schroeter & Berger
ABSTRACT The anthropological notion of Culture is founded on the presupposition of a radical difference between self and other, here and there, Eurocenter and Third World. This conceptual foundation has increasingly been under chal-lenge,... more
O presente trabalho propõe discutir a pobreza de experiência durante o isolamento social provocado pelo Covid, não a partir da categoria da pausa, mas de seu contrário, da aceleração, do excesso de estímulos, do produtivismo e do... more
La grande rimozione In principio, un movimento, due autori e alcuni testi. Il movimento: New York, anni Venti del Novecento, Harlem Renaissance. Gli autori, prima di tutto C.L.R. James. I suoi testi: Toussaint Louverture (1934), opera... more
O material disponível à consulta em texto ou imagem pertence à lista de artefatos permitidos pelo poder. São assombrosamente arbitrários e vulneráveis a ataques. A obliteração dos arquivos atinge o registro humano, mas também todas as... more
Quando a teoria crítica desenvolvida pela Escola de Frankfurt analisa a mudança da práxis artística em torno das transformações sociais e econômicas, podem-se observar algumas divergências de pensamentos entre Benjamin e Adorno Eles... more
Mateos de Manuel, Victoria (2021) La imposible flâneuse, en Colom González, F. (ed.), Pasajes del pensar. Ensayos sobre sociología, filosofía y literatura en homenaje a José María González. Bilbao: Deusto, pp. 175-190. RESUMEN. En este... more
A book chapter exploring Vladislav Shapolav's film and research project Image Diplomacy, which 'narrates the battle waged between two ideological blocs, the USSR and the United States, in the field of “exhibition diplomacy” during the... more
Gavin Murphy continues his series of essays (The Moonlight of Fantasy: The Russian Revolution Now), this time looking at how the Russian avant-garde in the Revolutionary period has been framed repeatedly as matter of contemporary... more
The aim of this paper is to connect Merleau-Ponty's account of dreams and time with cityscapes, Japanese anime and nightmares. First, I will briefly introduce Merleau-Ponty, then I will present three anime dealing with dreams, cities, and... more
Einführung in "Die Geburt der Transmoderne und die Kreolisierung der Welt Workshop zur Dekolonisierung des Sozialen" mit John Barker, Ines Doujak, Raphael Hörmann, Christian Kravagna und Jamila Mascat, Januar 2017, Württembergischer... more