Gene Ray calls for a post-modernism that would fully overcome capitalist modernity and its catastrophes. From a reading of Walter Benjamin’s Thesis on the Philosophy of History and Trauerspiel, Ray invokes allegory…
In William Turner’s "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On" (1840), sublime, unrelenting nature meets the revolting behaviour of men treating other men as refundable commodities. Images of black…
What if the abolition of slavery had given way to more sophisticated forms of servitude? Is it possible to detach the notion of liberty from the history of property that secured it?…
Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University in London, and Samuel Bianchini, artist and professor-researcher at EnsAD in Paris, were guest speakers of a research day on May 25th, 2018,…