“Bacon’s paintings insist, with some violence, that affects are not sensational properties but exist in relation to an outside—whether other bodies, as Deleuze concedes, a Barthesian ‘ongoingness’ that connects body to atmosphere, or a primordial being-in-the-world, as in Heidegger’s Dasein.”
Category: Art
[Essay] Grayson Perry and the Politics of Taste — Jonathan Webster
“Perry submerges himself in these cultures without judgment and, through his art, communicates and legitimizes alternative forms of cultural capital.”
[Essay] ‘Becoming-Animal’: Idle Bodies in Marie Darrieussecq and Lucien Freud — Susannah Farrell
“In Darrieussecq and Freud, the possibility of becoming is tied to the in-human and to nothingness, so that idleness, and animality, no longer nihilistic, render affirmation.”
[Essay] On the Aesthetic, Psychoanalysis and Dasein — Josh Mcloughlin
“Like theory, Dasein emerges as the allegory of an allegory.”
[Essay] Consuming Fragments: Performance Art and Spectatorship — Jasper Llewelyn
“Although championed as the quintessential practice of contemporary postmodern practice, recent trends for disrupting the spectator’s viewing process through fragmentation are based on a long history of performance and installation.”
[Essay] Dérive: Situationist Architecture and the Modern City — Matilda Roberts
“For Raoul Vaneigem, creativity, love and play are life’s nutrients – the only real ways in which we can participate in the world.”
[Essay] Art and Ideology: Clark, Courbet, and Althusser — Josh Mcloughlin
“Courbet makes visible (donner à voir) the interpellation of rural subjectivity not only in the gaze of urban bourgeois ideology but in the equally culpable stare of genre painting itself.”
