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Zaha Hadid Architects and the Neoliberal Avant-Garde Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 26 October, 2010 - 12:49
Owen Hatherley

Is it possible to be both builders of the prestige spaces of capital and self-declared avant-gardists? Owen Hatherley takes a look at the fluid architecture and financial times of Zaha Hadid Architects

 

 

The New Avant-Garde Acknowledges its Precursors

 

subject: Architecture

Mute Magazine Berlin Launch of Proud to be Flesh Editorial content | Publishers' Blog
Submitted by admin on Saturday, 23 October, 2010 - 13:20
Mute Publishers

Friday 29th October, 2010, 8pm

Basso, http://www.basso-berlin.de

More info on Proud to be Flesh, including a full chapters, contributors and illustrators list, is at: http://www.metamute.org/ptbf


Don't Wait to be Hunted to Hide Fifth Column
Submitted by matthew hyland on Saturday, 23 October, 2010 - 02:18

Following on from Benedict Seymour's precise placement of the analytical axe in 'We’re into Endgame', the previous ‘Fifth Column’...

 

The Beckett double acts do indeed unthread the sub-dialectical spooooooooool of ‘hawk’-‘dove’ codependency, institutional autophagy and ‘sobriety’ backed by Quantitative Easing.

subject: Pathopraxis

The Sea is Red: A Video Interview with Marcus Rediker Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 - 15:30
Omar El-Khairy

Focusing on specific events and mythologies attached to past and recent maritime radicalism, historian Marcus Rediker talks to Omar El-Khairy about piracy, the origins of global capitalism, and the poetics of history from below. This interview was facilitated by Gasworks in the context of their Hydrachy: Power and Resistance at Sea exhibition

 

1. The Shifting Figure of the Pirate: from the golden age of piracy to its place in popular imagination today

 

subject: N. America | Politics | Race

We're into Endgame Fifth Column
Submitted by Ben on Thursday, 14 October, 2010 - 21:51

'Cut us, don't kill us!' plead UK culture luvvies, but perhaps 'if you're going to hit me, hit me with the axe' is a more radical slogan? Benedict Seymour considers the parallels between Beckett's Endgame and the Treasury's

 


In the Mud and Blood of Networks: An Interview with Graham Harwood Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Tuesday, 12 October, 2010 - 17:04
Anthony Iles


Is Black History in Hackney? Fifth Column
Submitted by Benedict Seymour on Thursday, 7 October, 2010 - 15:55

Hackney Council in the East End of London plan to drop CLR James's name from a public library in fashionable Dalston. As the UK regime of austerity deepens, should we be fighting for symbolic concessions to those deleted or displaced by gentrification, or is it time for a more material response?, asks Ben Seymour

 


Performance Fictions Editorial content | Articles
Submitted by admin on Wednesday, 29 September, 2010 - 09:57
David Burrows

Blurring the distinction between reality and fiction isn't just the preserve of the state in the age of the War on Terror; small fictional viruses may also be fatally infecting the global narrative, writes David Burrows

 

 


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