Articles by Julian Stallabrass
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Radical Camouflage at Documenta 13
in NLR 77, September-October 2012, pp. 123-133
Subjects: Art
Dispatch from dOCUMENTA, the quinquennial art exhibition in Kassel, where a rhetoric of diversity and ‘anti-logocentrism’ serves as smokescreen for the contradictions and complicities of the art business.
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Digital Partisans
in NLR 74, March-April 2012, pp. 125-139
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History
A tonic for cyber-babble from the pages of Mute magazine, assessing the real impact of new technology on politics and cultural life. Can this valuable source of critique survive in a cold recessionary landscape?
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The Hockney Industry
in NLR 73, January-February 2012, pp. 93-94
Subjects: Art
Bucolic themes blend with hi-tech commercialism, in the output of a British national treasure.
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Museum Photography and Museum Prose
in NLR 65, September-October 2010, pp. 93-125
Subjects: Art
Julian Stallabrass surveys the work of Jeff Wall, its critical reception and incorporation into the circuits of institutional art. Mutual accommodations of museum and photographic medium, under the light-box’s commodified glow.
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Spectacle and Terror
in NLR 37, January-February 2006, pp. 87-106
Subjects: United States , War and Peace
After Gopal Balakrishnan’s engagement with Afflicted Powers in NLR 36, Julian Stallabrass turns to the Retort collective’s conception of spectacle and its Islamist antagonists. Does a Debordian optic occlude the oppositional potential of modern technologies?
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Digital Commons
in NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 141-146
Subjects: Science
Julian Stallabrass on Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software. The iconoclastic hacker who is challenging Microsoft’s dominion, using ‘copyleft’ agreements to lock software source codes into public ownership. Cultural and political implications of treating programs like recipes.
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Sebastiao Salgado and Fine Art Photojournalism
in NLR I/223, May-June 1997, pp. 131-160
Subjects: Aesthetics , Brazil
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Cold Eye
in NLR I/220, November-December 1996, pp. 147-152
Subjects: Aesthetics
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In and Out of Love with Damien Hirst
in NLR I/216, March-April 1996, pp. 153-160
Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
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- Empowering Technology: The Exploration of Cyberspace
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Success and Failure of Peter Fuller
in NLR I/207, September-October 1994, pp. 87-102
Subjects: Aesthetics , Art
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Just Gaming: Allegory and Economy in Computer Games
in NLR I/198, March-April 1993, pp. 83-106
Subjects: Aesthetics
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Painting Desert Storm
in NLR I/195, September-October 1992, pp. 102-109
Subjects: Art , War and Peace
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Autographs and Images: Snapshots of Berlin and Prague
in NLR I/190, November-December 1991, pp. 83-89
Subjects: Aesthetics , Art , Germany , Czech Republic and Slovakia
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The Idea of the Primitive: British Art and Anthropology 1918-1930
in NLR I/183, September-October 1990, pp. 95-115
Subjects: Aesthetics , Anthropology , Britain , History and Historiography
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