A Bay Area Reading Group For Art, Philosophy, and Critical Theory.

We meet the second Tuesday of the month at Dream Farm Commons

6-7:30 PM PST

Currently Reading

Essays

November 11 — "Against Periodization; or, On Institutional Time" by Eric Hayot [2011]

Link to PDF:  https://showsoflondon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/hayot_against-periodization.pdf

December 9 — "Vibrant Matter" by Jane Bennett [2010]

Link to PDF: jane-banette--vibrant-matter.pdf

January 13 — "Arts and Crafts" by Howard S. Becker [1978 - but still quite relevant]

Link to PDF: https://www.scribd.com/document/152304597/BECKER-1978-Arts-and-Crafts

Part of Art Worlds: https://sabrinasoyer.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/howard-s-becker-art-worlds.pdf

February 10 — "Influencer creep: How artists strategically navigate the platformisation of art worlds"  by Sophie Bishophttps [2023]

Link to PDF: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14614448231206090


Past Books and Essays: Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Polics, and Violence Against Women of Color, Eating the Other, Self-Dissolution to the left of me, self-dissolution to the right: A political glossary of self-overcomings, Capacities to Affect Up Against Fascism, Cruel Optimism, Theory of the Gimmick, Hyper-Semiotization and De-Sexualization of Desire: On Félix Guattari, On Touching – The Inhuman That Therefore I Am, Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory, In Search of Lost Time, A Thousand Plateaus, The Undercommons, Ugly Feelings, The Wretched of the Screen, Difference and Repetition, The World of Perception, Re-Enchanting The World Feminism and the Politics of the Commons