Overview of all pages with the tags #Art - THE PLATYPUS AFFILIATED SOCIETY

Aging in the Afterlife: The Many Deaths of Art

February 23, 2013 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

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]

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Utopia and reality

December 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2012, Chris Mansour interviewed Stephen Eric Bronner, a professor at Rutgers University and author of Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times (1980), Socialism Unbound (1990), Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists (1994), and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (2004), among many others. His most recent book is Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, and Utopia. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. [Read More]

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Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 5

1933--1940

July 14, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Part 5 of the Summer 2012 Platypus Affiliated Society Primary Reading Group Lecture Series: Trotsky and Trotskyism. Recorded on 14 July, 2012 at The New School, New York. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Week 4 Readings * recommended / * supplemental reading * Trotsky, “Stalinism and Bolshevism” (1937) * Trotsky, The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International (1938) [Read More]

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Trotsky and Trotskyism, Lecture 3

1917--1923

June 30, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Part 3 of the Summer 2012 Platypus Affiliated Society Primary Reading Group Lecture Series: Trotsky and Trotskyism. Recorded on 30 June, 2012 at The New School, New York. Audio Recording Your browser does not support the audio element Week 3 Readings * recommended / * supplemental reading * Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism (1920) * Trotsky, The Lessons of October (1924) [PDF] Trotsky, Literature and Revolution (1924) [Read More]

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Changes in art and society

A view from the present

May 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON MARCH 31ST 2012, the Platypus Affiliated Society invited Mary Jane Jacob (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Robert Pippin (University of Chicago), and Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois at Chicago) to speak on the theme of “Changes in Art and Society: A View from the Present” at the 2012 Platypus International Convention held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The complete audio and video recordings of the event are available online by clicking the above links. [Read More]

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The occupation of art's labor

April 1, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

ON NOVEMBER 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and its political relevance today, in light of the increasing involvement of artists and artistic strategies in the Occupy movement. What follows is an edited transcript. [Read More]

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Changes in Art and Society

A View From the Present

March 31, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Panel held on March 31st, 2012 at the Fourth Annual Platypus International Convention, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Video Recording Transcript in Platypus Review #46 Panelists Mary Jane Jacob (School of the Art Institute) Walter Benn Michaels (University of Illinois Chicago) Robert Pippin (University of Chicago) Description Hegel famously remarked that the task of philosophy was to “comprehend its own time in thought.” In a sense, we can extend this as the raison d’etre for artistic production, albeit in a modified way: art’s task is to “comprehend its own time in form. [Read More]

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The Significance of Art in the Occupy Movement

March 17, 2012 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

Video Recording Panelists Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based artist originally from north of San Francisco. He has exhibited kinetic art installations, photographs, and sculpture in New York, Europe, and India. He has also worked collaboratively with the Berlin-based performance group andcompany&Co. Noah initiated Occupy Subways and Occupy Museums in the first weeks of OWS. Noah is the curator of the No-Eyes Viewing Wall at Brooklyn Zen Center. [Read More]

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The antinomy of art and politics

A critique of art as "cultural resistance"

August 31, 2011 | The Platypus Affiliated Society

_AT THE 2011 LEFT FORUM, held at Pace University between March 18–21, Platypus hosted a conversation on the theme of Aesthetics in Protests. Panelists Stephen Duncombe (Reclaim the Streets), Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest), Chris Mansour (Platypus), Laurel Whitney (The Yes Men), were asked to consider: “What are the historical roots that contribute to the use of current aesthetic interventions in political protests? In what ways do they expand or limit the possibilities for protests to transform the social order? [Read More]

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Trotsky's theory of art

July 1, 2011 | The Platypus Affiliated Society • Other languages: Deutsch

At its Third Annual Convention, held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago between April 29-May 1, Platypus hosted a conversation on “Art, Culture, and Politics: Marxist Approaches.” Platypus members Omair Hussain, Lucy Parker, Pac Pobric, and Bret Schneider sought to address “What might the problems of aesthetics and culture have to do with the political project of the self-education of the Left?” A full audio recording of the event is available by clicking the above link. [Read More]

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