February 2012
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Paul Chan and Philippe Vergne on Exhibition... →
Fascinating, wide-ranging conversation on Chan’s work, as part of the symposium The Now Museum at Dia Art Foundation. At one point Chan describes “Exhibitionism,” via a winding Chxrlie Shxxn (who?) metaphor, as a sort of perpetual motion machine, a pure and voracious media apparatus. Catch the moment, deceptive in its casualness: it’s breathtaking.
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Joshua Clover: "What is a Student Debt?" →
Banks make money in one way, endlessly disguised: they buy income streams at a discount. Your future income comes from laboring. So when banks have no routes for profitable investment in the present, they must buy your future labor. That’s all that debt is: the sale of some portion of your life to the bank, at bargain prices. Those who cannot trace the contours of that misery lack all...
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