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Trouble the Water

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary - Sundance Film Festival, Trouble the Water opens in select cities this weekend.
Trouble The Water takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart stopping, infuriating, inspiring and empowering. People leave the theaters wanting and needing to do something – not only about the tragedy […]

Intervention

Friday, August 1st, 2008

William Lamson (2007-2008)
via Wrong Distance
- Anne

Book Review: Making things public: Atmospheres of democracy

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, Bruno Latour & Peter Weibel, editors, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 1072 pp.
Space & Culture has previously posted on this book, Latour, democracy and the public.This is our second review of this tome: See Tonya Davidson’s review in issue 9.3.
Is a politics of things essential to public life today? […]

Book Review: The Hatred of Democracy

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière, trans. Steve Corcoran. London: Verso, 2006, 106 pp.
In The Hatred of Democracy, Jacques Rancière polemically addresses what he views to be a widespread trend of anti-individualism in the past and present canons of social, political, and philosophical thought. Crucially for Rancière, this trend of anti-individualism is part of […]

Neuroaesthetics and the Time-Spaces of the Academy

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Debates are breaking out about the emerging field of neuroaesthetics — the effort to quantify, chart, and make “scientific” our experiences of art and affect. The Times Literary Supplement has recently entered the debate with Raymond Tallis’ vociferous reply to A.S. Byatt’s call to “observe the neorones.” Tallis, it seems, is not content to […]

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