“The most resonant slogan of Occupy Wall Street is “we are the 99%!” But who are the one percent? The popular answer is “Wall Street.” But to think about this […]

“A growing number of artists are abandoning truth-telling political art for a boldly utopian practice, recognizing that political problems can’t be solved by an atrophied collective imagination. With examples ranging […]

“A piece I’m showing in Six Chapel Row in Bath in July. Influenced by Dan Graham’s piece about Urbanism “Homes for America” the words Homes For America are searched for […]

from the Center on Capitalism and Society 9th Annual Conference, http://capitalism.columbia.edu/ http://www.saskiasassen.com/ https://twitter.com/SaskiaSassen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ax5cPoCmo

Mark Johnson of Lakoff&Johnson fame has gone on to become one of the cutting-edge figures in pragmatism fleshing out the works of Dewey, James, and others. At at about 52mins […]

Modernity has two powerful characteristics that constantly produce redundant people, who can’t be accommodated—the people that don’t fit. The first is the order-building characteristic: modernity is obsessively ordering a chaotic […]

“Hegel famously judged art to be a thing of the past. Is that verdict still justified? Do we not need art more than ever today?” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wood_%28philosopher%29 http://www.jcrt.org/archives/10.1/Simmons.pdf

“a research initiative but is also a way of looking at the urban world: seeing how we already ‘dance’ with our technologies and how, if we feel like it, can […]