The Accident of Art
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“There is a catastrophe within contemporary art. What I call the “optically correct” is at stake. The vision machine and the motor have triggered it, but the visual arts haven’t learned from it. Instead, they’ve masked this failure with commercial success. This “accident” is provoking a reversal of values. In my view, this is positive: the accident reveals something important we would not otherwise know how to perceive.”
— Paul Virilio, The Accident of ArtUrbanist and technological theorist Paul Virilio trained as a painter, studying under Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Bazaine and de Stael. In The Accident of Art, his third extended conversation with Sylvère Lotringer, Virilio addresses the situation of art within technological society for the first time. This book completes a collaborative trilogy the two began in 1982 with Pure War and continued with Crepuscular Dawn, their 2002 work on architecture and biotechnology.
In The Accident of Art, Virilio and Lotringer argue that a direct relation exists between war trauma and art....
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An Informal History by the “Grandmother of the Counter-Culture”
Mildred J. LoomisThe Petroleum Commons
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George CaffentzisOn Interpretation
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On Interpretation
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Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis and Literature
Patrick Colm Hogan
“Hogan’s book will make a significant contribution to the field of hermeneutics. It is lucidly and elegantly written, incisively argued, and refreshingly devoid of jargon and pretension. Among its strengths is its recognition of the rich insights to be gleaned from analytic philosophers, who, for the most part, are ignored by the dominant discourse of poststructuralism. That his book engages the mind at every turn and generates argument and response is testimony to its substance and power.” — Greig Henderson, Univeristy of TorontoThe Spirit of Revolt
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Anarchism and the Cult of Authority
Richard K. FennStalin's Apologist
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Stalin’s Apologist
Walter Duranty, The New York Times’s Man in Moscow
Sally J. TaylorShort, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin’s Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world’s most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. A witty, engaging, impish character with a flamboyant life-style, he was a Pulitzer Prize winner, the individual most credited with helping to win U.S. recognition for the Soviet regime, and the reporter who had predicted the success of the Bolshevik state when all others claimed it was doomed. But, as S.J. Taylor reveals in this provocative biography, Walter Duranty played a key role in perpetrating some of the greatest lies history has ever known. Stalin’s Apologist deftly unfolds the story of this accomplished but sordid and tragic life. Drawing on sources ranging from newspapers to private letters and journals to interviews with such figures as William Shirer and W....
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