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As a matter of general theory it is useful to recognize that means of communication are themselves means of production. It is true that means of communication, from the simplest physical forms of language to the most advanced forms of communications technology, are themselves always socially and materially produced, and of course reproduced. Yet they…
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Gerhard Richter’s Atlas
Gerhard Richter’s Atlas communedesign: Gerhard Richter’s Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches that the artist has been assembling since the mid 1960s. A few years in, Richter started to arrange the materials on loose sheets of paper. “In the beginning I tried to accommodate everything there that was…
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Birth of Thanaticism | Public Seminar
Birth of Thanaticism | Public Seminar rematerializationchamber: Thanaticism: a social order which subordinates the production of use values to the production of exchange value, to the point that the production of exchange value threatens to extinguish the conditions of existence of use value. That might do as a first approximation.