Art is not an “autonomous” realm of cultural production that is cut off from, or outside, the unfolding of everyday life. Rather, it is something that takes place within reality at a given socio-historical moment. I would like to build on these initial reflections by developing the very idea of this “taking place within”. I will refer to this, more precisely, as art’s immanence (I take this word to mean here, quite simply, a status of “being within something,” a kind of “indwelling”).
Read MoreThe design of LOVE Park represents a trend of civic agencies shifting the responsibility of clean drinking water to private entities. Clean water should be a right, not a right if you have $1.25.
Read MoreI think there is something deeper at work that has generated a certain resistance to ‘theory’ on a general cultural level, one that is much larger than the development of art in Philadelphia. I think that this ‘resistance’ is an effect of broader and deeper cultural attitude that has developed over the last twenty years (at least) in such a way that it does not allow us to see what is important about criticism or thinking ‘theoretically.’
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