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Cipher and Dividuality
The âPostscript on Control Societiesâ is considered one of the most accessible texts by Gilles Deleuze, contemporary, yet untimely, ahead of its time, perhaps even ahead of our time. In just a few pages, Deleuze here touches on the specifics of discipline and control and subjects them to three perspectives: history, logic, program. On closer reading, however, one comes across some stumbling blocks, where thinking falters. The paragraph in which the word âdividualâ appears for the first time in the text is such an instance. Of course, the individuals of control become dividuals, and the masses become banks. But what does âcodeâ mean here, and what is the difference between the âpreceptâ of disciplinary society and the âpasswordâ of control society? As is so often the case, the key lies in questions of context and translation
Art and contemporary critical practice: Reinventing institutional critique
266 p.Libro ElectrĂłnico'Institutional critique' is best known through the critical practice that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s by artists who presented radical challenges to the museum and gallery system.Since then it has been pushed in new directions by new generations of artists registering and responding to the global transformations of contemporary life. The essays collected in this volume explore this legacy and develop the models of institutional critique in ways that go well beyond the field of art.Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
WHAT IS INSTITUTIONAL CRITIQUE?
1 Instituent Practices: Fleeing, Instituting, Transforming 3
2 The Institution of Critique 13
3 Anti-Canonization: The Differential Knowledge of Institutional Critique 21
4 Notes on Institutional Critique 29
5 Criticism without Crisis: Crisis without Criticism 33
6 Artistic Internationalism and Institutional Critique 43
7 Extradisciplinary Investigations: Towards a New Critique of Institutions 53
8 Louise Lawlerâs Rude Museum 63
9 Toward a Critical Art Theory 79
10 Anthropology and Theory of Institutions 95
11 What is Critique? Suspension and Re-Composition in Textual and Social Machines 113
12 Attempt to Think the Plebeian: Exodus and Constituting as Critique 131
13 Inside and Outside the Art Institution: Self-Valorization and Montage in Contemporary Art 141
14 The Rise and Fall of New Institutionalism: Perspectives on a Possible Future 155
15 The Political Form of Coordination 161
INSTITUENT PRACTICES AND MONSTER INSTITUTIONS
16 Instituent Practices, No. 2: Institutional Critique, Constituent Power, and the Persistence of Instituting 173
17 Governmentality and Self-Precarization: On the Normalization of Cultural Producers 187
18 To Embody Critique: Some Theses, Some Examples 203
19 The Double Meaning of Destitution 211
20 Towards New Political Creations: Movements, Institutions, New Militancy 223
21 Mental Prototypes and Monster Institutions: Some Notes by Way of an Introduction 237
Bibliography 247
The Transform Project issues of transversal 26
Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the âCreative Industriesâ
234 p. : il., Tablas.Libro ElectrĂłnicoLa creatividad siempre estĂĄ en movimiento: surge, se establece en el ente colectivo, palidece y desaparece a veces en el olvido; renace, vuelve con innovaciones, se reformula y resurge iniciando de nuevo el ciclo.
Los viejos mitos de la creaciĂłn y los creadores, los trabajos consagrados y los organismos privilegiados de los demiurgos estĂĄn de nuevo en marcha, produciendo nuevos cambios. Los ensayos recogidos en este libro analizan ese resurgimiento complejo del mito de la creaciĂłn y proponen una crĂtica contemporĂĄnea de la creatividad.Creativity is astir: reborn, re-conjured, re-branded, resurgent. The old myths of creation and creators â the hallowed labors and privileged agencies of demiurges and prime movers, of Biblical world-makers and self-fashioning artist-geniuses â are back underway, producing effects, circulating appeals. Much as the Catholic Church dresses the old creationism in the new gowns of âintelligent designâ, the Creative Industries sound the clarion call to the Cultural Entrepreneurs. In the hype of the âcreative classâ and the high flights of the digital bohemians, the renaissance of âthe creativesâ is visibly enacted. The essays collected in this book analyze this complex resurgence of creation myths and formulate a contemporary critique of creativity.Contents vii
Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction: On the Strange Case of âCreativityâ and its
Troubled Resurrection 1
PART ONE: CREATIVITY 7
1 Immanent Effects: Notes on Cre-activity 9
2 The Geopolitics of Pimping 23
3 The Misfortunes of the âArtistic Critiqueâ and of Cultural Employment 41
4 âCreativity and Innovationâ in the Nineteenth Century: Harrison C. White and the Impressionist Revolution Reconsidered 57
PART TWO: PRECARIZATION 77
5 Virtuosos of Freedom: On the Implosion of Political Virtuosity and Productive Labour 79
6 Experiences Without Me, or, the Uncanny Grin of Precarity 91
7 Wit and Innovation 101
PART THREE: CREATIVITY INDUSTRIES 107
8 GovernCreativity, or, Creative Industries Austrian Style 109
9 The Los Angelesation of London: Three Short Waves of Young Peopleâs Micro-Economies of Culture and Creativity in the UK 119
10 Unpredictable Outcomes / Unpredictable Outcasts: On Recent Debates over Creativity and the Creative Industries 133
11 Chanting the Creative Mantra: The Accelerating Economization of EU Cultural Policy 147
PART FOUR: CULTURE INDUSTRY 165
12 Culture Industry and the Administration of Terror 167
13 Add Value to Contents: The Valorization of Culture Today 183
14 Creative Industries as Mass Deception 191
Bibliography 20
Instituierende Praxen: fliehen, instituieren, transformieren
'Der Text verhandelt mögliche nicht-dialektische Formen der Aktualisierung von Institutionskritik. Ausgehend von einer Kritik aktueller kĂŒnstlerischer Positionen wird eine Praxis der Institutionskritik gefordert, die sich mit den gesellschaftlichen VerĂ€nderungen weiter entwickelt, vor allem auch Anschluss findet an andere Formen auĂerhalb des Kunstfelds, wie sie gegen die jeweiligen VerhĂ€ltnisse oder auch vor deren Ausformungen entstehen. Vor dem Hintergrund eines solchen transversalen Austausches von Kritikformen, aber auch jenseits der Imagination von herrschafts- und institutionsfreien RĂ€umen wĂ€re Institutionskritik zugleich als kritische Haltung und als instituierende Praxis zu reformulieren. MaĂgeblich dafĂŒr ist u.a. die Ăberschneidung und Ăberlagerung mehrerer Formen von 'parrhesia', wie sie in der griechischen Antike entwickelt und in Michel Foucaults SpĂ€twerk theoretisch aktualisiert wurden.' (Autorenreferat)'This text is about non-dialectical forms of an actualization of the critique of institutions. Emanating from a critique of current artistic positions it is challenged to perform a practice of critique of institutions emerging with changes in society affiliated to forms outside the field of arts generated against actual conditions or their implementations. On the background of such a transversal exchange of forms of critique the critique of institutions should be reformulated as well as a critical attitude as an institutionalizing practice, too - beyond any imagination of spaces free of power and institutions. Applicable amongst others is a coincidence with some forms of 'parrhesia' developed by the ancient Greeks and theoretically actualized by Michel Foucault in his last works.' (author's abstract
PrzemysĆy kreatywne jako masowe oszustwo
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Strike, occupy, transform! Students, subjectivity and struggle
This article uses student activism to explore the way in which activists are challenging the student as consumer model through a series of experiments that blend pedagogy and protest. Specifically, I suggest that Higher Education is increasingly becoming an arena of the postpolitical, and I argue that one of the ways this student-consumer subjectivity is being (re)produced is through a series of âdepoliticisation machinesâ operating within the university. This article goes on to claim that in order to counter this, some of those resisting the neoliberalisation of higher education have been creating political-pedagogical experiments that act as ârepoliticisation machinesâ, and that these experiments countered student-consumer subjectification through the creation of new radical forms of subjectivity. This paper provides an example of this activity through the work of a group called the Really Open University and its experiments at blending, protest, pedagogy and propaganda
Architecture, Multitude and the Analogical City as a Critical Project
This article develops a theory of the multitude for architecture. It is a close-reading of political theorist Paolo Virnoâs concept of the multitude and its associated categories of language, repetition and what Virno calls âreal abstraction.â The article transposes those categories to the thought of Aldo Rossi on typology, the city as a text and the analogical city. The aim is to explore the conditions of possibility for a renewed critical project for architecture and to articulate architectureâs capacity for framing a collective political subject. The key questions addressed are therefore how does Virnoâs grammar of the multitude translate into an architectural grammar for the city; and how can architecture frame a collective political subject
Workshopping the revolution? On the phenomenon of joker training in the Theatre of the Oppressed
The article brings together observations and insights on the emerging phenomenon of training the trainers, also known as joker training in the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO). The concerns raised in this article are twofold: first, how does the modularised, workshop format of joker training affect the core principles of TO? Second, what are the implications of professionalising the work of the joker? These questions relate to the critique of âcreative industriesâ and debates around precarisation that profoundly impact arts and humanities education in contemporary Europe. They also serve as a call to interrogate concepts central to TO, such as participation, empowerment and community, in terms of how these concepts are appropriated and made docile in the increasingly neoliberal environment of European cultural and educational policies. The article proposes that a training in TO must view the dissemination of techniques and methods of joker practice as inseparable from a deep commitment to a âconscientisedâ understanding of the complex social problems that the theatre seeks to address. The focus on a technical training alone bears the danger of reinforcing Freire's âbanking methodâ of pedagogy, which is counterproductive to the political objectives of TO. The article observes that professional jokers work in precarious conditions far removed from the promises of the economic rewards of creative enterprise. The proliferation of project-based freelance work creates a situation where jokers tend to become de-territorialised and alienated from actual problems, thus propagating biographic and short-term approaches to systemic contradictions. The study aims to problematise these issues and contribute to a debate that might lead to politically and professionally viable paths for the future of TO
Cipher and Dividuality
The âPostscript on Control Societiesâ is considered one of the most accessible texts by Gilles Deleuze, contemporary, yet untimely, ahead of its time, perhaps even ahead of our time. In just a few pages, Deleuze here touches on the specifics of discipline and control and subjects them to three perspectives: history, logic, program. On closer reading, however, one comes across some stumbling blocks, where thinking falters. The paragraph in which the word âdividualâ appears for the first time in the text is such an instance. Of course, the individuals of control become dividuals, and the masses become banks. But what does âcodeâ mean here, and what is the difference between the âpreceptâ of disciplinary society and the âpasswordâ of control society? As is so often the case, the key lies in questions of context and translation