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November 29, 2011

Paul Virilio: The Great Accelerator

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Image: Joy Garnett: Speed of Sound [Detail]. (2000). Oil on canvas. 26 x 36 inches. The West Collection, Oaks, PA

 

The Great Accelerator
By: Paul Virilio

Polity, Cambridge UK

Description
On 10 September 2008, amid much fanfare, the Great Collider run by CERN in Geneva was turned on. The Collider was supposed to fire protons around a 17-mile loop of tunnels, causing them to crash into one another at close to the speed of light and break into even tinier particles. Nine days later the Collider broke down and had to be switched off, the accelerator temporarily silenced, the search for ‘God’s particle’ put on hold.

At the same time the speeded-up markets of global finance, with screens of multi-coloured numbers designating the rapid flows of capital, are suddenly thrown into confusion when news spreads that the great Titan of Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, has filed for bankruptcy. Investors panic, share prices plunge and the accelerated markets of global finance seize up.

In his latest book, Paul Virilio - the leading theorist of our obsession with technology, speed and power - rewrites ‘The Book of Exodus’, but the exodus he talks about is no longer conducted in a single file of people headed for some possible Promised Land. It is a closed-circuit exodus within a cramped world where reduction in human stocks will suddenly look like the only solution to the lockdown of history.


First Edition
HARDBACK
ISBN: 9780745653884
ISBN10: 074565388X
PAPERBACK
ISBN: 9780745653891
ISBN10: 0745653898

Publication Dates US: Mar 2012

Format
186 x 123 mm, 4.84 x 7.3 in
100 pages

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November 29, 2011 at 07:40 PM in Books, Futures | | Comments (0)

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Found Art (Nolita): Unmonumental 326

Found Art (Nolita): Unmonumental 326

November 29, 2011 at 07:38 PM in Art World, Ephemera, Found-Art, Vernacular | | Comments (0)

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Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 325

Found Art (LES): Unmonumental 325

November 29, 2011 at 07:37 PM in Art World, Ephemera, Found-Art, Vernacular | | Comments (0)

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November 20, 2011

It's out! The 25th anniversary edition of M/E/A/N/I/N/G!


This summer, painters Mira Schor and Susan Bee invited me to contribute an essay to the 25th anniversary edition of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues. Contributors were asked to choose between two themes, and to include images with our short texts. My piece, Analogue Natives, considers that dwindling group of people born before the advent of digital culture, who embrace it while remaining attached to older technologies....

Introduction image-MEANING_1_flyerNEW-CROP
From the subscription flyer for issue No. 1.

 

M/E/A/N/I/N/G
25th Anniversary Edition


The editors of M/E/A/N/I/N/G are proud to announce the 25th anniversary issue of our journal. This issue is available online and as a PDF.

http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/meaning/05/


This is an unusual moment of global economic crisis, failure of capitalism and of progressive political movements, a moment of political impasse, and of generational shift, following upon a series of traumatic political events and a decade of war. Methods of communication have changed since we began our project 25 years ago and concepts of privacy and individuality seem to be in a process of radical transformation.
 
Our 25th anniversary issue centers around two themes: the impact of public trauma on art and art critical practice, and the nature of privacy for the artist or critic working in the age of social networking and global spectacle.

The first issue of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues, was published in December 1986. We published 20 issues biannually over ten years. In 2000, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory, and Criticism was published by Duke University Press. In 2002 we began to publish M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online and have published four previous online issues. The M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive from 1986 to 2002 is in the collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
 
To address our themes in this online issue, we invited a wide spectrum of artists, art historians, and poets, some who had written for our journal before and many new artists and writers whose work we have encountered in recent years. We are proud to continue our commitment to maintaining an open, non-profit space for independent writing about art.
 
We are honored to publish the responses we have received, people really wrote what they wanted, what they felt, each very individually, many clearly inspired and energized by the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began September 17th in Lower Manhattan and has rapidly sent a wave of optimism around the world.
 
 
Susan Bee and Mira Schor
New York City, November 18 2011

 

The contributors list is formidable--here are links to their individual essays, which also include images of their art work (Thanks to Sharon Butler for the formatting!):


NOTE: The 2000 anthology published by Duke University Press is now available in Kindle and other e-book formats.

November 20, 2011 at 11:16 AM in Art of Advertising, Art World, Books, Current Affairs, Futures, Philosophical..., Protest, Social Software, The Gift | | Comments (0)

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Reminder: Panel on Appropriation @ the NYC Bar Association: Contemporary Art After Cariou v. Prince

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Image from greg.org, Canal Zone Richard Prince YES RASTA:
Selected Court Documents (2011) 376 pages, $3.95 - $17.99

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT APPROPRIATION
Contemporary Art After Cariou v. Prince

A frank discussion of fair use and artistic practice

What: A free program open to all (no registration required)
When: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Where: Great Hall of the New York City Bar Association
42 West 44th Street, New York City (between 5th and 6th Avenues)

Art and legal experts use similar terminology when talking about how artists use existing images, but are they speaking the same language?

Panelists for this program represent a range of stakeholders in the discussion. Audience participation and tough questions are encouraged.

Speakers:
Dan Cameron, Curator
Anthony Falzone, Stanford Fair Use Project
Claudia Ray, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Walter Robinson, Artnet
Virginia Rutledge, PIPE Arts Group
Hank Willis Thomas, Artist
Moderator: Amy J. Goldrich

Program Co-Chairs: Amy J. Goldrich. and Lauren Gehrig
Presented by the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, John Cahill (Chair)

November 20, 2011 at 11:06 AM in Art of Advertising, Art World, Copyfight, Criticism, Current Affairs, Events, Futures, Intellectual Property, Law, Panels + lectures | | Comments (2)

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