Recently Charlie Johns edited an extremely interesting book that works through the argument that neurosis is the dominant condition of our society today. Continue reading
Category Archives: Book presentation
A “literary” graphic novel?
Although graphic novels are now considered part of literature, only very few are literary adaptations in the traditional sense of the word. Continue reading
50 Key Terms in Contemporary Cultural Theory
Anthropocene, posthumanism, biopolitics… Terms such as these have not only become very popular in academic circles, but they are also increasingly used in public debates, catalogues of exhibitions and policy documents. Sometimes a term suddenly becomes a fashionable buzzword, only to go out of fashion as quickly as it gained attention, but there are also terms that people keep on using because they help us to understand something important about contemporary society. Continue reading
Book presentation: “Starchitecture. Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities”
Wednesday May 10, 2017, 6-8 pm at the Aud De Molen, Campus Leuven. Continue reading
Moving Together – Book Release
On Friday, October 23 one of Belgian’s leading sociologists and dance critics Rudi Laermans presents his new book Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance in the Kaaitheater (Brussels). In this book Laermans analyzes contemporary dance through a combination of dance studies and sociology. Continue reading
Bojana Kunst’s ‘Artist At Work: Proximity of Art and Capitalism’
Book presentation of Bojana Kunst’s ‘Artist At Work: Proximity of Art and Capitalism’. 1/10 in De Vooruit, Gent
When Belgian philosopher Dieter Lesage was invited to write an introductory text for the catalogue of German artist Ina Wudtke Lesage slightly changed the proposal. Rather than describing Wudtke’s artistic “products”, his “Portrait of the Artist as a Worker” describes what the artist does when she works:
“You are an artist and that means: you don’t do it for the money. Continue reading
