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The Kids Are All Right: What to Expect at the New Museum’s 2015 Triennial A different approach to a contemporary-art survey

Foraging (The Air Itself/Dark Version) (William Pope.L).

"Looking at War. Photography’s view of devastation and death" by Susan Sontag for The New Yorker 2002.

Alain Badiou analyses the events of the Charlie Hebdo attack in their global and national contexts, making the case for the incompatibility of the red flag of communism with the Tricolore of French national identity. By Alain Badiou Translated by David Broder. An abridged version of this piece was originally published in French in Le Monde 27 January.  

A film by Hila Peleg "A Crime Against Art" is a film based on the trial staged at an art fair in Madrid in February 2007 organized by Anton Vidokle and Tirdad Zolghadr. Inspired by the mock trials organized by André Breton in the 1920s and 30s, it playfully raises a number of polemical issues in the world of contemporary art: collusion with the "new bourgeoisie," instrumentalization of art and its institutions, the future possibility of artistic agency, as well as other pertinent topics.

Ausstellung und Veranstaltungsprogramm zum Roman „Die Ästhetik des Widerstands“ von Peter Weiss initiiert von Julia Lazarus und Moira Zoitl (2014)

originally published in Le Point and Lacan Quotidien.

From the refusal of labor to the seizure of power, the Italian militant and theorist talks to ROAR about class struggle in the contemporary metropolis.

For centuries, we have been told that without religion we are no more than egotistic animals fighting for our share, our only morality that of a pack of wolves; only religion, it is said, can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous violence around the world, assurances that Christian or Muslim or Hindu fundamentalists are only abusing and perverting the noble spiritual messages of their creeds ring increasingly hollow. What about restoring the dignity of atheism, one of Europe's greatest legacies and perhaps our only chance for peace?

It’s always tough to pick my favorite visualization projects. I mean, it’s a challenge to pick and rank your favorite anything really. So much depends on what you feel like at the time, and there’s…

beyond beautiful

Christine Ruppert: Walter Benjamins Kindheit um neunzehnhundert. Die Siegessäule als Ort der Inszenierung von kollektivem Gedächtnis

The French Poet Who Predicted Digital Poetry

Resources and Ideas for Making Maps

"Ausgraben und Erinnern - Benjamins archäologisches Denkbild" (Benjamins Blitzkrieg) von Knut Ebeling