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Reviews in Cultural Theory 3.2 (Winter 2012)
3.2 SUMMER 2012 Reviews in Cultural Theory is a journal of reviews and review essays, published twice annually. We welcome offers to review or suggestions of forthcoming books engaged with contemporary theories of culture. We also wecome suggestions for review es- says and similiar, lengthier variations on the review form. We can be reached by email at [email protected], or by mail at Reviews in Cultural Theory Department of English and Film Studies 3-5 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, AB T6G 2E5 Canada http://reviewsinculture.com Editors: Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully, Imre Szeman Copyright for reviews published in Reviews in Cultural Theory is owned by the review author. ©Copyright 2009-2012 Reviews in Cultural Theory ISSN 1918-9710 Contents 1 Deconstructing the “Middle Class” MEHITA IQANI 6 The Art World’s Dark Matter BRUCE BARBER 14 Colonial Trains, Postcolonial Tracks NILAK DATTA 19 Rethinking Race and Digital Divides LISA PATTI 22 Psycho-History THEO FINIGAN 27 Moving Mountains DANIELLE CHILD 35 Understanding Collaboration in Contemporary Artistic Practice SARAH E.K. SMITH 40 No Faith in Form KRIS COHEN 47 Middle Games and Possible Communisms RYAN CULPEPPER 55 Establishing Binaries JEFF HEYDON 59 Inquiry into the Truth of Communism MARC JAMES LÉGER Deconstructing the “Middle Class”; Constructing its Transnational History MEHITA IQANI A. Ricardo Lopez and Barbara Weinstein (eds.) The Making of the Middle Class: To- ward a Transnational History. Duke University Press, 2012. 446pp. he Making of the Middle Class is an edited collection that spans an impressive— Talmost intimidating—amount of material. Featuring chapters and commentar- ies by 21 writers, it provides a collection of historical analyses of the formation of the middle class in a variety of historical moments and geographical contexts, offering the resources through which a detailed and global picture of its formation can emerge. -
Prohm in Transferts, Appropriations Et Fonctions De L’Avant-Garde Dans L’Europe Intermédiaire Et Du Nord Ed
AUCUN RETOUR POSSIBLE – AN EVENT LOGIC OF THE AVANT-GARDE Alan Prohm in Transferts, appropriations et fonctions de l’avant-garde dans l’Europe intermédiaire et du Nord ed. Harri Veivo Cahiers de la Nouvelle Europe No. 16 2012 Kunst und Kamp, poster, April, 1986 Inherent in the notion of an avant-garde is the irreversibility of its measure of progress. The vector of a cultural effort need be neither straight nor singular nor without setbacks for this to be asserted: to occupy a position that has been surpassed is to not be avant-garde. It is stunning the degree to which this logic is disregarded by fans. Art historians can hardly be faulted for keeping warm the corpses of their favorite moments. It is a mortuary profession, and for many sufficiently well paid to keep up their confidence that scholars are anyway smarter than the artists they study; “We’ll be the judge of what’s dead and when.” More charitably, taking scholars as journalists, there are new sightings of the avant-garde to report every day, so we should expect the glorified blogging of peer-review journals on the topic to continue. And here, too, there is no foul. What approaches the kind of tragedy worth regretting, however, is that so many people of such lively genius should suffer their intellectual enthusiasms to be diverted, and secured off the track of any real cultural agency. The main veins of avant-garde activity in the European sphere, the now canonical cycle Futurism-Dada- Surrealism-Etcetera, gambled art and literature’s stakes in the centuries-old entitlement for a new chance at impacting the human situation. -
Conflict Kitchen Reopens After Threats Uber Gets Sigma Phi Pittsburgh Comes to License Brian Trimboli Campus News Editor
Bahcall explains distribution Women’s soccer dominates Walk the Moon performs in of dark matter • A4 in NCAA • A12 Wiegand Gymnasium • B5 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan November 17, 2014 Volume 109, Issue 12 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Alpha Conflict Kitchen reopens after threats Uber gets Sigma Phi Pittsburgh comes to license BRIAN TRIMBOLI campus News Editor CHELSEA DICKSON College students around Staffwriter Pittsburgh were disappoint- ed early last summer when Given the many time an investigation by the commitments and respon- Pennsylvania Public Utility sibilities the average Carn- Commission (PUC) led to egie Mellon student juggles cease-and-desist orders for daily, it could be hard to both Uber Technologies Inc. understand why one would and Lyft Inc. On Thursday, want to find yet another however, the PUC voted 4–1 reason not to sleep. Yet for to grant an experimental li- some undergraduate men cense to Uber, allowing the at Carnegie Mellon, the op- company to operate across portunity to create a new Pennsylvania. Before, Uber community of friends and and Lyft were both operat- leaders was too exciting to ing under temporary au- turn down. thority from the PUC. Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Uber and Lyft were Delta Theta are the new- founded in San Francisco est arrivals on Carnegie in 2009 and 2012, respec- Mellon’s ever-developing tively. Both companies use fraternity scene. Alpha Sig- an app — available on iOS ma Phi is still in the early and Android — to give “colony” stage of forma- rides to users from drivers tion, while Phi Delta Theta at a cheaper rate than most was officially designated a existing taxicab services. -
Pittsburgh Restaurant Se...Lict with US
7/26/2014 Pittsburgh Restaurant Serves the Food of Countries in Conflict With US - ABC News Like 4.8m Follow SIGN IN Search HOME VIDEO U.S. WORLD POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT TECH HEALTH LIFESTYLE SHOWS MORE NOW LIBYA • GAZA • STAR WARS • RED RIVER • DANNY NICKERSON Pittsburgh Restaurant Serves the Food of HOT RIGHT NOW River Mysteriously Turns Countries in Conflict With US Red Jul 25, 2014, 1:48 PM ET 1 by TINA TRINH (@TinaTrinhNYC) via GOOD MORNING AMERICA How Khloe Kardashian Is 'Torturing' Rapper French Like 554 98 298 2 Share 21 Comments 2 Montana... Should Teens Be Sentenced to 50 Years in 3 Prison? How Israel's Ground Offensive in Gaza Could 4 Impact Syria Should You See Scarlett Johansson's New Film 5 'Lucy'? A customer at the takeout window of Conflict Kitchen. Courtesy Conflict Kitchen HOME VIDEO U.S. WORLD POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT TECH HEALTH LIFESTYLE MONEY MORE There are things you don't talk about at the dinner table, and politics is one of them. But political conversation is encouraged at one restaurant in Pennsylvania. Indeed, it inspires the cuisine. Welcome to Conflict Kitchen, a takeout spot in Pittsburgh that only serves food from countries in conflict with the United States. Created by Jon Rubin and Dawn Weleski, Conflict Kitchen features a rotating menu of food native to countries like Cuba, North Korea (Manduguk, or vegetable dumpling soup) and Iran (Khoresht-e Kadoo, or Persian lamb stew with zucchini and tomatoes on steamed rice). The idea began as an interactive art project that has since become a full-fledged business. -
For All the People
Praise for For All the People John Curl has been around the block when it comes to knowing work- ers’ cooperatives. He has been a worker owner. He has argued theory and practice, inside the firms where his labor counts for something more than token control and within the determined, but still small uni- verse where labor rents capital, using it as it sees fit and profitable. So his book, For All the People: The Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, reached expectant hands, and an open mind when it arrived in Asheville, NC. Am I disappointed? No, not in the least. Curl blends the three strands of his historical narrative with aplomb, he has, after all, been researching, writing, revising, and editing the text for a spell. Further, I am certain he has been responding to editors and publishers asking this or that. He may have tired, but he did not give up, much inspired, I am certain, by the determination of the women and men he brings to life. Each of his subtitles could have been a book, and has been written about by authors with as many points of ideological view as their titles. Curl sticks pretty close to the narrative line written by worker own- ers, no matter if they came to work every day with a socialist, laborist, anti-Marxist grudge or not. Often in the past, as with today’s worker owners, their firm fails, a dream to manage capital kaput. Yet today, as yesterday, the democratic ideals of hundreds of worker owners support vibrantly profitable businesses. -
PDF Colophon for Booklyn Bridge #1
Booklyn Bridge #1 Artists: Courtney Bowles, CUBA, Raoul Deal, Jan Descartes, Ganzeer, Candice Hicks, Aaron Hughes, Monica McKelvey Johnson, Josh MacPhee, People’s Paper Coop, Eliana Perez, Rigo 23, Erik Ruin, María Verónica San Martín, Beldan Sezen, Dana Smith, Mark Strandquist, Sublevarte Colectivo, Sofia Szamosi, Marshall Weber, Taehee Whang, CK Wilde 2020, 11 x 13 inches, edition of 21, 13 pages, accordion fold binding Media: Acrylic, Calligraphy, Collage, Hand-painting, Ink, Inkjet, Laser Print, Offset print, Photography, Risograph, Rubbing, Screenprint, Wood block https://new.booklyn.org/catalog/booklyn-bridge-1/ $ 4,200.00 Booklyn Bridge is both a celebration of 21 years of Booklyn and a fundraiser so Booklyn can get through year 22. The book is an amazing accordion fold collage of artwork donated by a diverse and fluid group of 21 Booklyn artists from across Booklyn’s history. The book is a dream team of activist artists who work in print and book media. Each book in the variant edition is designed and assembled by various Booklyn staff and board members; edition #1 is designed and fabricated by Booklyn Directing Curator Marshall Weber who also covered (and cohered) the book with wax rubbings from various bronze plaques across the city of New York featuring a quote from Albert Camus’ “The Plague” and a rubbing of a plaque of the Brooklyn Bridge that is set into the Brooklyn Bridge. The book spotlights the global activist/artist network that Booklyn has built over the past two decades, with exuberant and critical artworks that especially evoke the turbulence of the past year while imagining (and imaging) a bridge into a decolonized future. -
The Time Is out of Joint | Ibraaz
INTERVIEWS The Time is Out of Joint Tarek Abou El Fetouh in conversation with Stephanie Bailey Stephanie Bailey 010_00 / 6 May 2016 The Time Is Out Of Joint offers three years and three events as a curatorial frame: the first Biennale of Arab Arts in Baghdad in 1974, the China/Avant-Garde exhibition, held in Beijing in 1989, and the Equator Conference, which will be staged in Yogyakarta in 2022. As the exhibition statement explains, this framework builds on 'Ibn Arabi's concept of time as a fluid place and place as a frozen time, the project examines our current and future locations and conditions. It confuses different times, places, cities and artistic events that took place in the past or will take time in the future.' The project consists of an exhibition staged at the Sharjah Art Foundation, which included a staging of the 2022 Yogyakarta conference in March 2016, a two-volume publication that is divided into the four chapters, and components of the project presented in Gwangju South Korea at the Asia Cultural Center in April 2016. In this remarkable and expansive layering of context, curator Tarek Abou El Fetouh presents a history of corresponding temporalities that recalls both our inability to deal with the complexities of our time, and the necessity to draw connections between us, beyond our defined 'regions'. Stephanie Bailey: The Time is Out of Joint reflects on history as a string theory of tangled knots, webs, projections and compressions. The intention behind this perspective – and tactic – seems to be a neutralization of the binary divisions between the so-called postcolonial and imperial nations of the world in order to understand who we are without reducing ourselves to fit the normative terms that have historically defined us. -
Making Space
Alternative radical histories and campaigns continuing today. Sam Burgum November 2018 Property ownership is not a given, but a social and legal construction, with a specific history. Magna Carta (1215) established a legal precedent for protecting property owners from arbitrary possession by the state. ‘For a man’s home is his ASS Archives ASS castle, and each man’s home is his safest refuge’ - Edward Coke, 1604 Charter of the Forest (1217) asserted the rights of the ‘commons’ (i.e. propertyless) to access the 143 royal forests enclosed since 1066. Enclosure Acts (1760-1870) enclosed 7million acres of commons through 4000 acts of parliament. My land – a squatter fable A man is out walking on a hillside when suddenly John Locke (1632-1704) Squatting & Trespass Context in Trespass & Squatting the owner appears. argued that enclosure could ‘Get off my land’, he yells. only be justified if: ‘Who says it’s your land?’ demands the intruder. • ‘As much and as good’ ‘I do, and I’ve got the deeds to prove it.’ was left to others; ‘Well, where did you get it from?’ ‘From my father.’ • Unused property could be ‘And where did he get it from?’ forfeited for better use. ‘From his father. He was the seventeenth Earl. The estate originally belonged to the first Earl.’ This logic was used to ‘And how did he get it?’ dispossess indigenous people ‘He fought for it in the War of the Roses.’ of land, which appeared Right – then I’ll fight you for it!’ ‘unused’ to European settlers. 1 ‘England is not a Free people till the poor that have no land… live as Comfortably as the landlords that live in their inclosures.’ Many post-Civil war movements and sects saw the execution of King Charles as ending a centuries-long Norman oppression. -
Maha Maamoun
Maha Maamoun Exhibitions and Projects (selection) Solo Shows: 10. 2019 Maha Maamoun Darat al Funun, Amman 09. 2017 The Met | Maha Maamoun Art Jameel Project Space 06. 2017 The Subduer Art Basel Statements 02. 2017 The Law of Existence Sursock Museum, Beirut 03. 2015 Like Milking a Stone Rosa Santos Gallery, Valencia 05. 2014 The Night of Counting the Years Fridericianum, Kassel 03. 2014 Lingering in Vicinity Gypsum gallery, Cairo 02. 2013 2026 Turku Museum, Turku Performance: 01. 2019 The Subduer (or: The Sublime Face of Bureaucracy) Volksbuhne, Berlin 05. 2013 Sunrising Kristine Khouri, Maha Maamoun and Dilek Winchester Artist Project and Lecture within the Plastic Veins project commissioned for Homeworks 6, Beirut Shows and Biennials (Selection): 07. 2019 Deep Sounding – History as Multiple Narratives daad galerie, Berlin 10. 2018 Constructing the World: Art and Economy Kunsthalle Mannheim 10. 2018 Strange Days: Memories of the Future Store X, London in collaboration with The New Museum, NY 09. 2018 From Behind the Screen Medrar, Cairo O5. 2018 The past is present: Becoming Egyptian in the 20th century The British Museum 03. 2018 Active Forms Sharjah Arts Foundation, Sharjah 06. 2017 NO TO THE INVASION: Breakdowns and Side-Effects CCS Bard Galleries 05. 2017 Imagined Life in a Museum Vitrine Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) 03. 2017 I Can Call This Progress to Halt Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) 04. 2016 Hors Pistes Centre Pompidou, Paris 03. 2016 The Time is Out of Joint Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Asia Culture Center, Gwangju 03. 2015 Century of Centuries SALT, Istanbul 02. 2015 Lest the Two Seas Meet Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 11. -
Arte Y Comida En La Creación Contemporánea Desde Un Enfoque De Género
TESIS DOCTORAL ARTE Y COMIDA EN LA CREACIÓN CONTEMPORÁNEA DESDE UN ENFOQUE DE GÉNERO Doctoranda: María del Carmen Díaz Ruiz Directora: María Teresa Méndez Baiges Estudios Avanzados en Humanidades: Historia, Arte, Filosofía y Ciencias de la Antigüedad Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA, 2017 AUTOR: María del Carmen Díaz Ruiz http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2169-8415 EDITA: Publicaciones y Divulgación Científica. Universidad de Málaga Esta obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial- SinObraDerivada 4.0 Internacional: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Cualquier parte de esta obra se puede reproducir sin autorización pero con el reconocimiento y atribución de los autores. No se puede hacer uso comercial de la obra y no se puede alterar, transformar o hacer obras derivadas. Esta Tesis Doctoral está depositada en el Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga (RIUMA): riuma.uma.es TESIS DOCTORAL ARTE Y COMIDA EN LA CREACIÓN CONTEMPORÁNEA DESDE UN ENFOQUE DE GÉNERO Doctoranda: María del Carmen Díaz Ruiz Directora: María Teresa Méndez Baiges Estudios Avanzados en Humanidades: Historia, Arte, Filosofía y Ciencias de la Antigüedad Facultad de Filosofía y Letras UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA, 2017 2 AGRADECIMIENTOS Las páginas que presento son el resultado de la investigación realizada durante los últimos cinco años. En este recorrido, la investigación se ha visto enriquecida por las aportaciones y consejos de personas como Beatriz Colomina, Estela Ocampo, Cecilia Novero y Lisl Hampton, sin cuyas contribuciones hubiera sido imposible. Me gustaría agradecer también a mis profesores por sus palabras llenas de sabiduría. Debo también agradecer a todas las personas de archivos y bibliotecas quienes me han ayudado y facilitado la labor de investigación, especialmente a Inmaculada Domínguez por su amabilidad durante tantos años. -
Intervention Intervention Post Object and Performance Art in New Zealand in 1970 and Beyond
Intervention Intervention Post Object and Performance Art in New Zealand in 1970 and beyond Robert McDougalI Art Gallery & Annex November 9 — December 10, 2000 Contents © 2000 Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex Text and images copyright © 2000 the authors and artists. ISBN 0-908874-61-8 ' Trans-Marginal: New Zealand Performance Art 1970—1985 by Jennifer Hay 5 The Art This catalogue was published to accompany Intervention, an exhibition considering Post-object of the Heist by Nicholas Spill 27 Jim Allen: From Elam to the Experimental Art and Performance Art 1970—1985, at the McDougall Contemporary Art Annex, Foundation by Blair French 33 The Gift in Littoral 9 November—10 December 2000. Intervention was part of Colloquium, a multi-media arts Art Practice by Bruce Barber 49 New New Zealand event comprising exhibitions and public programmes and jointly presented by the ‘New Art’ by Prof. Tony Green 59 Robert McDougall Art Gallery & Annex and the University of Canterbury. About the Writers 95 All rights reserved under international copyright convention. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. Research Assistance: EH. McCormick Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki Te Papa Tongarewa, Elam School of Art ’Open Drawer’ File, New Zealand Film Archive, Hocken Library Design and typography by circledesign Scanning by Digital Pre-Press Ltd. Printing by Rainbow Print, Christchurch Paper supplied by Spicers Paper Ltd. Printed on Lumi Silk 150/250gsm and Freelife Vellum lZOgsm Cover: Body Articulation 1974, Jim Allen Courtesy of the artist and the E.H. -
Shadyside's Elbow Room Closes After 67 Years
Online games crowdsource Men’s basketball beats MilkMilkLemonade RNA research • A4 Geneva • A10 entertains audiences • B7 SCITECH SPORTS PILLBOX thetartan.org @thetartan November 24, 2014 Volume 109, Issue 13 Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper since 1906 Senate, Got Consent? host sexual assault prevention roundtables CHELSEA DICKSON In September, Carnegie verbally and sexually abusive turally and physically, has only dent Senate’s Sexual Assault ed to sexual violence. Staffwriter Mellon University was one of ex-girlfriend. just begun. Carnegie Mellon and Relationship Violence Beginning with the theme over 60 colleges investigated In late October, Carnegie students finished this fall se- Prevention (SARVP) commit- of “Greek Life, Athletics, and The year of 2014 has seen by the U.S. Department of Edu- Mellon students carried mat- mester by encouraging and tee, and various members of Sexual Violence Prevention” the issue of sexual assault cation’s Office for Civil Rights tresses on campus for “Carry extending campus dialogue on Carnegie Mellon’s adminis- on Tuesday, the roundtables driven to the forefront of na- (OCR) after the American Civil That Weight Day,” a national sexual assault. tration. The program, which continued with the following tional debate through college Liberties Union filed a Title movement aiming to create Sexual assault and rela- began Nov. 18, includes seven issues: “Primary Prevention of student-driven initiatives and IX Complaint against the ad- awareness of sexual assault tionship violence prevention separate roundtables, the last Sexual Violence at CMU,” “Sex- an increasingly public dialogue ministration, citing the school and solidarity with sexual as- roundtables were hosted on of which occurs on Nov.