Under the heading of the battles led in favor of equality for all in cultural matters, the name of Gaëtan Picon may be mentioned, as we are told by Agnès Callu, the author of a dissertation about this man, one of “history’s vanquished.” Picon is said to have consistently tried to impose an elitist ...
# 32-3 | Kleinian Economics | Sophie Cras
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
# 32-2 | Kleinian Economics | Kaira Cabanas
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
# 32-1 | Kleinian Economics | Denys Riout
It is difficult to talk about Yves Klein free from the cult surrounding him. That, however, is what three observers who are attentive of this “salesman of the void”’s connections with economic issues have tried to do. Klein had received this epithet in 1960 from a Tribune de Lausanne journalist who failed to see ...
# 31-3 | New Soviet Fashions | Valérie Pozner
Our knowledge of Russia and the USSR is no longer in focus. That is the conclusion delivered here by three researchers who offer us a historiographical overview of painting, film, architecture, and urban planning. In their company, we exit a history centered around the decryption of ideological messages effectively imposed by the state apparatus. ...
# 30 | On Evaluation | Jacinto Lageira
Jacinto Lageira, who has recently published a book on the derealization of the world, is known for his texts about contemporary art and about theoretical reflections upon it. Lageira studies for us here how the considerable broadening of the notions of aesthetics and the artistic has had its effects on all sorts of objects. ...
# 18-2 | The Opacities of technology | Christian Walter
The singularity of technology lies perhaps in its an aura of objectivity and timelessness whereas reality demonstrates just the opposite. Like everything else, it complies with the dictates of history and obeys conventions. André Gunthert goes back over some of the arguments that might bid us to rejoin the land of history, the land ...
# 18-1 | The Opacities of Technology | André Gunthert
The singularity of technology lies perhaps in its an aura of objectivity and timelessness whereas reality demonstrates just the opposite. Like everything else, it complies with the dictates of history and obeys conventions. André Gunthert goes back over some of the arguments that might bid us to rejoin the land of history, the land ...
