February 2011
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Former Berkeley Art Museum curator Chris Gilbert:...
When an art curator is quoted supporting the Monarchy in Bahrain, contemporary art appears to be on the side of the Ancien Régime. Five years after his resignation, it is interesting to go back to Chris Gilbert’s resignation letter and see what, if anything, has changed in the state-finance-art nexus: I made the decision to resign as Matrix Curator on April 28, but my  struggles with the...
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Link: Adam Shatz writes After Mubarak →
Published in the London Review of Books, Fep. 17, 2011.
Feb 19th
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Link: Tom Holert on the Birth of the Rebel Citizen... →
from a special issue of e-flux journal with reports on the rise of right-wing, populist movements in Europe and the US.
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Slavoj Žižek on the Christian-Hegelian Comedy →
Žižek brings the notion of demonstration and self-representation to another level. This is a text by him from the seventeenth issue of Cabinet Magazine, Spring 2005   Image: Mask of Domingo Cavallo, Minister of Economy in Argentina, 1991–1996. Thanks to Lara Correa. Photo Josefina Tommasi.
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Link: Immanuel Wallerstein on the Second Arab... →
Feb 17th
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ReCoCo in the news →
Here is an item from the Tages Anzeiger in Switzerland
Feb 13th
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Link: Saroj Giri on WikiLeaks beyond WikiLeaks →
Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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ListenOn his radio show from Feb. 03 2011, Maestro...
Feb 13th
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Peter Ludlow on Rethinking Conspiracy: The...
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of statesmanship.             — President Theodore Roosevelt (epigraph from an Assange paper) There has been plenty...
Feb 11th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Link: Noam Chomsky on Egypt, Tunisia, WikiLeaks... →
Noam Chomsky compares the current events with 1989 asking where is the Mikhail Gorbachev of the Arab World?
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Link: They Rule →
They Rule is a project which started in 2004, allowing you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US
Feb 5th
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Jay Rosen of Press Think on WikiLeaks and the new formation of press and politics
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Useless to Revolt? Foucault on the Iranian... →
curtesy of Boaz Levin and haemori.wordpress.com.
Feb 2nd
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ReCoCo e-flux ad →
Feb 1st