Ab sofort als freies E-Book: ‘Spektakel – Kunst – Gesellschaft. Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale’
Es ist ja schon längere Zeit ausverkauft, aber jetzt gibt es das schöne Kooperationswerk von monochrom und Cafe Critique als freies E-Book. Grigat, Stephan and Grenzfurthner, Johannes and Friesinger, Günther, eds. (2006) Spektakel – Kunst – Gesellschaft. Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale. Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-935843-61-5 Creative Commons Attribution. Der vorliegende Band versammelt … Read more
A Dow Jones/S&P 500 Index for the Arts (It’s a Bear Market)
The National Arts Index is intended to function much like stock indexes. By its measure, the recent, recession-strapped years have seen big declines not just in nonprofit arts but pop concerts and movies as well. […] Billed as ‘the largest data set ever assembled describing arts and culture in America,’ the National Arts Index released … Read more
Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory
When Claude Lévi-Strauss died a little over a year ago at age 100, he left behind a curious and contested legacy. For the French, he was the intellectual equivalent of royalty. In 2008, editions of his works were published in the gilt-lettered Pléiade collection, an act of canonization rare for a living French author; in … Read more