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Animals
The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.
Friendship
Article from The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies. names the raw, sensuous, delicate, multi-dimensional, secret intelligence shared by sentient beings at the moment of their extended encounter.
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Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fuelling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion.
The Exform
Tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art—the exform.
State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious
Explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.
The Future
It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.
Déjà Vu and the End of History
Examines the construct of memory, the passage of time, and the “end of history.”
Performance Histories from East Asia 1960s–90s: An IAPA Reader
Brings together a variety of essays, photographs and archival materials and on the history of early performance art in East Asia. The publication will include texts by An invaluable new research tool, the publication is available free at events and online.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041).
Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.