| http://www.egs.edu/ Donna Haraway presenting the companion species manifesto, discussing the relationship and joint lives of humans, dogs and companion species, a response to her own cyborg manifesto, dogs, people and significant otherness, the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, nature and culture, dogs as fleshly material-semiotic presences in the body of technoscience, partners in the crime of human evolution, organisms, society, identity, social relationships, philosophy and feminism. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2003. Donna Haraway. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Jacques Derrida in his Paris seminar "A Critique of Psychoanalysis", a public open lecture focusing on texts from Gilles Deleuze for students of European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies Department Program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, France 2004 |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Jean Baudrillard thinking and talking about the violence of the image, the violence to the image, aggression, oppression, transgression, regression, effects and causes of violence, violence of the virtual, 3d, virtual reality, transparency, psychological and imaginary. Open Lecture given by Jean Baudrillard after his seminar for the students at the European Graduate School, EGS Media and Communication Program Studies Department, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, in 2004. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, and Larry Rickels discussing psychoanalysis. First segment of a free public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Larry Rickels 2006. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Public Open Video Lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2007. Manuel De Landa. Gilles Deleuze. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda speaking about materialism and experience, Gilles Deleuze, materialist philosophy, left and marxist movement, a world of experience, philosophy of nature, social constructivism, sociology, materialism, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Free public open video lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Film Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2008. Manuel De Landa. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek speaking about belief, the other, others radical otherness, respect for otherness, resistance, hatred, intolerance towards wisdom, totalitarian regimes, displacement, multitude and diversity, just action, fighting fascism, preserving humanity by killing the enemy, Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, including references to movies like Unbreakable with Bruce Willis and Shrek. Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2006, Slavoj Zizek. |
| http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek lecturing about materialism and theology, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and the psychoanalysis of culture and societies. Videolecture focuses on fundamentalism, materialism, theology, atheism, atheists, humanists, humanism, reason, logic, rationality, believe, faith, religion, christian, christianity, islam, fundamentalists, fundamentalism, god, nature, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Public open lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2007, Slavoj Zizek. |
On 3 July 1998, there was a sense of anticipation in the Cardiff
artscene: a new artist-run space was being launched. The inaugural
exhibition preview was packed with artists, students and suits, curious
about the new project; it was met with both a sense of expectation as
well as the doom-laden predictions of a short lifespan. Fortunately g39
is still here, quietly but determinedly delivering a programme,
providing a meeting place for artists and a focus for graduates.
To celebrate g39 is marking its ten-year anniversary with a
commemorative programme of events, starting with If You Build It, They
Will Come – an attempt to present the works of each and every
artist g39 has worked with in the past decade.
The New Republic Postcards from Nowhere by Jed Perl Post Date Wednesday, June 25, 2008 | |||||||||||
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When I returned from Los Angeles not long
ago, where I had gone to see the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum,
friends quite naturally asked for my impressions. The strange thing was
that I hardly knew how to respond. And in recent months I have found
myself often faced with this problem. I have not had much of anything
to say after visiting a number of widely discussed events: the 2008
Whitney Biennial; the opening show at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art (aptly titled "Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century"); the
survey of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum; the
Olafur Eliasson show at the Museum of Modern Art; the exhibition of
Jeff Koons's sculpture on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I
have had thoughts, sure; but they are the thoughts of an anthropologist
rather than a museumgoer, of a student of the art world rather than a
person who has had an encounter with a work of art. What there is to
discuss is not visual experiences so much as visual stunts, which are
frequently mind-boggling in their size and complexity. Mostly what I
can offer, after all this museumgoing and gallerygoing, is a series of
postcards about nothing written from places that felt like nowhere.
I gather I am not alone. Reporting on the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Art in America,
Michael Duncan described "a bewildering event, provoking soul-searching
in the local art community and the museum world at large." And in the
lead article in Artforum's April issue, devoted to "Art and Its
Markets," the art historian Thomas Crow complained of trustees reneging
on public trusts, of "barbarism" in cultural institutions, of "vandals
... inside the walls." Well, yes. Then again, I find it interesting
that many commentators are far more eager to criticize the collectors
and the dealers than the art stars who produce this junk in the first
place. Can it be that even the most vapid machine-tooled work is still
covered by the old romantic alibi, namely that the muses made me do it?
The woes of the art world cannot be blamed entirely on the rapacity of
a cadre of collectors, dealers, and curators. After all, it was an
artist, Damien Hirst, who dreamed up the platinum replica of a human
skull, paved with diamonds, that was first exhibited last year in
London in a show called "Beyond Belief.
