Chris Mansour

A panel even held on October 20, 2014, at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Bruce Barber (Media Arts Faculty at NSCAD University) Sebastien Labelle (SEIU, Halifax Mayworks Festival Organizer) Chris Mansour (Platypus Member and independent writer) Description Throughout the 20th century, there was a powerful idea that there could be a homogeneous experience which would culminate into a revolutionary ‘working class culture. [Read More]

A talk and guided discussion held at Left Forum 2013, at Pace University, on June 8, 2013. Video Recording Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Panelists Benjamin Blumberg Victoria Campbell Chris Mansour Description If it is true that the ‘commodity-structure’ (Lukács) is the defining feature of modern capitalism down through the present, then it stands to reason that it has no less impacted the way art is produced, consumed, circulated, and exchanged. [Read More]

A panel held by the Platypus Affiliated Society on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the New School. Video Recording Transcribed in Platypus Review #58 Panelists Julieta Aranda was born in Mexico City, and currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. Central to Aranda’s multidimensional practice are her involvement with circulation mechanisms and the idea of a “poetics of circulation”; the possibility of a politicized subjectivity through the perception and use of time, and the notion of power over the imaginary. [Read More]

A teach-in with Platypus Affiliated Society member Chris Mansour. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Description In the mid-19th century, Marx and Engels famously observed in the Communist Manifesto that a specter was haunting Europe: the specter of Communism. 160 years later, it is Marxism itself that haunts us. In the 21st century, it seems that the Left abandoned Marxism as a path to freedom. [Read More]

A panel discussion organized by the Platypus Affiliated Society, held on March 19, 2011 at Left Forum, Pace University. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element A transcript of Chris Mansour’s remarks appears in Platypus Review #39 Panelists Chris Mansour - Parsons School of Design, Platypus Affiliated Society Jamie Keesling - 491 Laurel Whitney - Yes Men Marc Herbst - Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Reclaim the Streets [Read More]