The State of Things (Verksted)

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ISBN-10:

8292495185

ISBN-13:

9788292495186

Released: Sep 30, 2013
Format: Paperback, 272 pages
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Description:

The State of Things, part of Norway’s official representation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, addresses today’s broad political and cultural climate through a series of lectures by some of today’s foremost art historians, philosophers, sociologists, activists and political theorists. Essays written for this volume include Jacques Ranciére’s “In What Time Do We Live?”; “Illegitimacy” by Leo Bersani; “Ten Lessons from Ten Peace Processes” by Jan Egeland; Fawaz A. Gerges’ meditation on “How the Arab Uprisings Beat al Qaeda”; Vandana Shiva’s “War Against the Earth”; Eyal Weizman on “Material Proportionality”; Judith Butler on “Bodily Vulnerability, Coalitions and Street Politics”; Franco Berardi on “Pasolini in Tottenham”; Saskia Sassen on “Urban Capabilities”; and T.J. Clark on “The Experience of Defeat.”











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