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Brief thoughts on “art and labour”

Sometimes I’m happy that there seems to be a big conversation going on about labour and art – and what the labour in artworks is like. That is important, at least in understanding artworks’ social immersion, that they are inextricably…

I am tired

I am tired of taxonomies of alterity, as if they were a substitute for difficult discussions of history and social activity. I am tired of questions about how oppression functions and oppressive relations are constructed being left unanswered by words…

Scattered Notes on Jameson’s Talk

No doubt that Jameson’s talk at the CUNY Graduate Centre will be watched by loads of people in the next few days. Here are a few critical notes that I’ve thrown together in the middle of the night immediately after…

Critique of Graeber on Bullshit Jobs

Today I was reminded of a piece of writing I did last summer. I didn’t publish it at the time, when all and sundry were facebooking and tweeting David’s piece, because it was unfinished. It’s still unfinished but I thought…