Cultural #semiotics; æsthetic vocab. Critical metatheory research platf. Photo dialogue @phototechne Synthethic media @metacontemp Art discourse @neocontemps
#TheArtAnglePodcast: The average metropolitan person now is exposed to more media in a single day than someone a few generations ago would absorb in a lifetime. Amid the deluge of hot takes and commentary on today’s image culture, and its effects on our brains, many people have also been looking back to an older figure for guidance, one who seems to have been something of a prophet: the philosopher Vilém Flusser.
Long in the works but now just in time to serve as a guide, Martha Schwendener’s The Society of the Screen: Vilem Flusser’s Radical Prescience, is just out from MIT Press. Schwendener is a teacher, an art historian, and a long-time art critic for the New York Times. The Society of the Screen tackles what Flusser’s wide-ranging and experimental body of thought means for art today and how his theories might help us find a way through our media-saturated moment.
This week on the podcast co-host Ben Davis speaks to Martha Schwendener about her new book, 'The Society of the Screen: Vilem Flusser’s Radical Prescience.'
Listen to the podcast: https://t.co/VuCOEojsXX
In a world of mass-produced goods, Nepali lokta paper remains a unique Himalayan heritage. Without support, this craft may disappear. The new film ‘Nepali Paper on the Edge’ by Agnieszka Helman-Ważny offers rare insight into its production.
🎬 Full video: https://t.co/jVryPSneut
New special issue of Samuel Beckett Today/ Aujourd’hui
Beckett’s Environments, edited by Laura Salisbury and Nadia Louar
https://t.co/IkODefZsqF
Enjoy! #beckett@BeckettSociety@beckettcentre
In this week's episode, Aikman and Vickers say it's a dangerous move at the wrong time. "The idea that weaker capital regulation of banks is good for growth is for the birds." John Vickers @OxfordEconDept@UniofOxford tells @timsvengali. https://t.co/gKdDVOiHzf
«La pintura es una poesía muda; la poesía, una pintura ciega.»
📆#TalDiaComoHoy de 1746 nació el artista español Goya, considerado el iniciador de la pintura contemporánea.
✍️Hubert Damisch escribió un texto inédito sobre él y la manera de entender las artes visuales.
Get your tickets for El Niño y La Bestia (The Boy and The Beast) at the Oxford Literary Festival!
Spanish author for children and adults Elvira Lindo brings a performance for all the family of her musical tale El Niño y la Bestia (The Boy and the Beast) to the festival.
Note: the age guidance for this event has been updated to 13+ since it was first published in the festival’s pocket guide and on the website.
Lindo narrates the tale inspired by her father’s story of being sent to stay with an aunt in a devastated Madrid following the Spanish Civil War. She is accompanied by musicians Salvador Bolón, Germán Clavijo and María Lindo, the project’s artistic director, on English horn.
The event will be in Spanish with English subtitles.
Tickets available at https://t.co/F0J9hGo7Un
#InstitutoCervantesLondon #OxfordLiteraryFestival #LiteratureEvents #OxfordEvents
El pasado domingo en #LaHoraRandom de “Julia en la Onda” hablamos, entre otros temas, de por qué han sobrevivido algunos edificios romanos… y otros no.
Aquí tenéis el podcast:
https://t.co/rWssjrNCcp
"Suppose a technique of criticism that allows the critic to cast the work of art as one possibility among many. Suppose Picasso’s variations as a model for literary criticism."
From our new issue, read Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld's "Supposing . . .": https://t.co/jYCdx5pDzD
“Elevator Repair Service’s adaptation of the play, which samples from every chapter of the novel, resembles a delectable tasting menu: this should entice rather than discourage ‘Ulysses’ novices.”—Rhoda Feng on a new stage production of James Joyce’s work https://t.co/13OpLMS0Oh
#Pyramides d'Égypte: le mystère de leur construction fascine depuis des siècles. Mais derrière le fantasme et les controverses, ces édifices sont avant tout des concentrés de savoirs. Podcast à écouter sur France Culture, Épisode 1/4 https://t.co/5D24HsIbnS
Le mystère des nuraghes préhistoriques dévoilé : une étude révèle les techniques d'ingénierie qui ont permis aux tours millénaires de Sardaigne de rester debout https://t.co/oGBGcdN0qn