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A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 5: Confronting Enemies

Issue 5: Confronting Enemies Engaging an inspiring group of thinkers and makers to consider what it looks like for various socially engaged art practices to venture into enemy territory. Guest edited by Daniel Tucker. A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. They evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/blade_of_grass/1004/thumbnail.jp

A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 2: Who?

Issue 2: Who? This issue looks at the power of relationships formed when artists become allies to and co-authors with people whose expertise comes from another source than art. A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. They evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/blade_of_grass/1001/thumbnail.jp

A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 3: Artists Challenging Normativity

Issue 3: Artists Challenging Normativity Artists challenging mainstream habits of seeing and doing that exclude the lived experience and creative potential of large swaths of people who have been systematically oppressed by social norms and capitalism. A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. They evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/blade_of_grass/1002/thumbnail.jp

A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 4: Governance Reimagined

Issue 4: Governance Reimagined Artists from across a diversity of geographies take on how we might live otherwise, how we might rethink governance. Guest edited by Laura Raicovich. A Blade of Grass provides resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence and serve as innovative conduits for social change. They evaluate the quality of work in this evolving field by fostering an inclusive, practical discourse about the aesthetics, function, ethics and meaning of socially engaged art that resonates within and outside the contemporary art dialogue.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/blade_of_grass/1003/thumbnail.jp

A Blade of Grass Magazine Issue 1: Where?

Issue 1: Where? This inaugural issue of A Blade of Grass Magazine engages the tendency of socially engaged art to inhabit everyday places, not just those meant for art.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/blade_of_grass/1000/thumbnail.jp

Grand narratives then and now: can we still conceptualise history?

Reading the Communist Manifesto today, it is impossible not to be struck by the confidence with which it conceptualises history. The positive energy of this bold grand narrative stands in such stark contrast to the negative and jaded mentality of our times, which conceives of grand narratives only to tell us that there can be none. Such talk as there is of history today is more likely to be of "the end of history". There are three senses in which references to the end of history feature in contemporary debates: apocalyptic prediction, postmodernist pronouncement and capitalist triumphalism. This paper addresses the crisis of historicity in our time in relation to these positions and asks what is it about our age that produces them. It explores the widespread rejection of grand narratives, as well as grand narratives, which nevertheless persist, implicit and explicit, right and left. It looks at the position of marxism in the 1990s, counterposing it to postmarxism and postmodernism in particular on the question of grand narratives. It calls for resistance to the detotalising pressures of the age and revival of a totalising (as opposed to totalised) philosophy of history