Tag: Ranciere

• The Cinematic Metaverse: Hollywood Science Fiction and Silicon Valley’s Vision of the Future

  Abstract This essay analyzes science fiction novels to reconstruct a partial literary genealogy of the Californian Ideology first described in 1995 by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, as a strange mixture of the counterculture hippie movement and the ideal of the free market. It addresses the ways in which writers and artists during the Cold…

  December 18, 2021

  Essay

• Bauhaus in the Boondocks: Ideas for an Epilogue

  Or stuff that won’t make the cut in my MFA Research Project at the School of Visual Arts in NYC I intend to follow some leads from Jacques Rancière’s Politics and Aesthetics (Verso, 2003) and his more specifically art critical Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (Verso, 2013) in writing about the pedagogical…

  March 10, 2021

  Paintings

• Documents of Dissent

   „Freiheit ist immer die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden”“Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for dissenters.” ― Rosa Luxemburg The artistic practice of Minerva Cuevas invests on the motif of dissent against the powers that be. She has collected material on public resistance in Mexico City for over a decade. From the recordings of marches, gatherings, and…

  October 21, 2019

  Artists, Essay, Exhibitions, Reviews