Communiqué from an Absent Future
(from the UCSC occupation barricades)
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Like the society to which it has played the faithful servant, the
university is bankrupt. This bankruptcy is not only financial. It is
the index of a more fundamental insolvency, one both political and
economic, which has been a long time in the making. No one knows what
the university is [...]
Sao Paulo is Burning: The Spectre of Politics at the Biennial
“The 29th Sao Paulo Biennial is anchored in the idea that it is impossible to separate art and politics.” In view of the events of the past 48 hours, there are serious reasons to doubt the honesty of this statement.
The work that is shaping up to become the most interesting at the Sao Paulo Biennial [...]
Fail better, BP REC
Fail better
These words are already destined to be a failure before they even become a text. Failure in a sense that it is not known what and how they would contribute to the world of ideas and concepts. This is an event of transforming the arbitrary intensities into the medium of letters and language that [...]