Found accidentally in an old issue of Partisan Review (Winter 1970-71) Marcuse’s letter to French critic Lucien Goldmann not only summarizes what the author himself thought of the main points of his book One Dimensional Man but puts forth a precise response to some of the criticisms voiced about his theories by other Marxists. This … Marcuse’s Letter to Lucien Goldmann from Partisan Review, Winter 1970-1971
The online portion of Mohammad Salemy’s new project, PRELIMINARY MATERIALS FOR ANY THEORY, was finally launched today. Included in Laiwan’s curated exhibition for this year’s Queer Arts Festival, QAF in Vancouver, the project uses an abbreviated version of the french collective Tiqqun’s Preliminary Notes For a Theory of the Young Girl as a template towards … Preliminary Materials for Any Theory
By Horace G. Campbell NATO claimed that its intervention in Libya was a historic success. But three years later, Libya is in complete chaos. Some 1700 militias have a combined total of 250,000 men under arms. Another external intervention seems necessary to stabilize the country. But the US and NATO must never be involved INTRODUCTION … US, Nato and the Destruction of Libya — the Western Front of a Widening War
By Jason Adams Amidst the intensification of the occupation movement in late 2011, extended cultural and political theory engagements appeared on the sites of a number of online theory journals, including Theory & Event, Possible Futures, Critical Inquiry: In the Moment and The Contemporary Condition. Similar interventions also occurred within social media sites, including theorists’ … Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy and Resistance After Occupy Wall Street
Since the ideo-typical structure may assume a generic form, and since reference will continually be made to historico-empirical material, it is perhaps opportune to recall Weber’s admonition that ‘ideal- typical’ developmental constructs on history are to be sharply distinguished from each other… The maintenance of this distinction in all it’s rigour Often becomes uncommonly difficult … Excerpts from The introduction to <em>The Geometry of Imperialism</em> by Giovanni Arrighi
By Mohammad Salemy NOTE: I am posting this brief introduction in the hope of generating dialogue about “Iranian art” particularly in response to the planned symposium on Saturday October 26 at New York’s Asia Society titled Iran: Art and Discourse. You have to be from a different planet to not know that Iranian Art is hot and … Six Reasons as to Why the Recent Surge of Interest in Iranian Contemporary Artists Is Not Productive for Iranian Art
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKDWk3dgjDs BEAU TRAVAIL ON: WIKIPEDIA BEAU TRAVAIL ON: IMDB
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4t-vbesTAA Shot by Mo Salemy, August 2010
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