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Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy We begin with remarks on predetermination and representation: But because it is at the same time a fiction and a principle organizing actual social relations, representation is the terrain of a … Continue reading →

Freda Guttman at A Space http://www.aspacegallery.org/index.php?m=programdetails&id=79 In Memoriam consists of three 1930-40’s upright radios, large and ornate, their inside workings removed. The radios have a metaphorical role — presences, speakers, ghosts of the past, warning voices that remember Walter Benjamin’s … Continue reading →

Laurie Anderson [from liner notes to Faraway So Close! (1993)] Tightrope In this dream I’m on a tight rope and I’m tipping back and forth trying to keep my balance – and below me are all my relatives – and … Continue reading →

This takes its force from being set in a parenthesis. George once again eschews experience as having nothing to do with the present moment. (Isherwood himself, it should be observed, “formed” fairly early in life into the person he would … Continue reading →

A digression from an essay on the various versions of Adrienne Rich’s “Heterosexism and Lesbian Existence” [said essay about the shifting valence attached to gay men as characterized in its various emendations of the footnotes] … For every impasse, a … Continue reading →

Jonathan Raban Soft City living in the city is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relation between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living this … Continue reading →

Jeanette Winterson “The Semiotics of Sex” Art is not a private nightmare, not even a private dream, it is a shared human connection that traces the possibilities of past and future in the whorl of now. It is a construct, … Continue reading →

a run found at bottom of a note on agents and worlds clay / clef / chef The group becomes intriguing when one considers the French word for “key” and its pronunciation. I do find the visual translations engrossing. And … Continue reading →