BAK on 'refusal'
Research Interrupted
…n of the Fellowship, specifically prompted by the military invasion of Ukraine: a chain of events that strengthened the …
Utopia*Art*Politics Sessions
It feels harder than ever to imagine a future that is both collectively desirable and achievable. Mainstream politics ha…
Convention: working sessions
Friday 24 May 2024 Working sessions 11.30–16.00 hrs “Beyond Value” convened by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Ma…
Propositions #9: Deserting from the Culture Wars
… memes about “cultural Marxism,” immigration, climate change, and feminism. What possibilities would be opened by a …
How to Sort out the Many Ambiguities of the Concept of Anthropocene
…nthropocene as a “wake-up call,” radically reframing both the time and space we find ourselves living in. The final …
Kahanoff’s Levantinism: The Anachronic Possibilities of a Concept
After the Six-Day War, the Egyptian-born Israeli writer Jacqueline Kahanoff deployed the notion of Levantinism to challe…
Dysfluent Waters
…nt black oralities for centuries,” Ellis explores how stuttering, blackness, and music can figure within practices of …
In Some Places the Not-Yet Has Long Been Already
These ancestral catastrophes, she writes, “keep arriving out of the ground that colonialism and racism tilled, rather …
To Live the Coming Death
… as a powerful means to index the relative success and failure of various states and powers. Against the debasement and …
Deserting from the Culture Wars
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and MIT Press, Cambridge, MA and London present Deserting from the Culture Wars, …
Betül Aksu
…ficial documents and subjective experiences of everyday life will form collective performances in the forms of creative …
Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Vivian Ziherl— Wutharr
…n iPhones. Filmmaking provides a technique of self-organization and social analysis. Film acts as a form of survival, a …
