The Beauty of a Social Problem
Unemployment is both a problem and a solution. It’s a problem for the unemployed, who want work, a solution for employers who not only want workers but also want the cheapest ones they can get.
» Nonsite Author: Walter Benn Michaels
October 3rd, 2011
June 12th, 2011
Interview with Walter Benn Michaels on Photography and Politics
So one easy way to put it would be to say that for many people, photography perfectly embodied the theory and practice of the postmodern, whereas for some people, it created the possibility or felt necessity for a critique of postmodernism. Or, to put the point in terms of intentionality: for many people, the photograph embodies the critique of the intentional that we find in theorists as different as Barthes and Derrida, Crimp and Rancière; for others it embodies something like the opposite – the opportunity to re-imagine intentionality.
June 12th, 2011
On Kenneth Warren’s What Was African American Literature?
An excerpt from the Los Angeles Review of Books Symposium on “What is African American Literature?”
January 25th, 2011
Neoliberal Aesthetics: Fried, Rancière and the Form of the Photograph
The political meaning of the refusal of form (the political meaning of the critique of the work’s “coherence”) is the indifference to those social structures that, not produced by how we see, cannot be overcome by seeing differently. It’s this refusal of form…
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