IDEA Arts + Society (2003–) [Romanian/English]
Filed under magazine | Tags: · activism, art, art criticism, art theory, autonomy, capitalism, contemporary art, cultural criticism, eastern europe, institutional critique, performance art, politics, romania, society, southeastern europe, theory, video art
Idea 36-37, 2010
Idea 35, 2010
“IDEA art+society is a multiannual publication produced by IDEA, Cluj. It is published under its current form since 2003.
Allegiance to the exigency of genuine theory – a theory which is, first of all, its own practice – this is the program of IDEA arts+society magazine. This means: the practice of the concerned eye, which can be rigorous solely through the unconditional solidarity with the concrete. It is a practice of thinking which is alien to any aestheticism, hostile to any institutionalized transcendence, immune to the biased fiction of ideological neutrality, and remote from the pernicious language of our contemporary culture of ‘experts.’ In brief, it is the practice of critical and defiant reflection, dramatically lacking in the intellectual-civic debates of present-day Romania.
The graphical and logical operator ‘+’ functions as the material figura of all these dimensions, to which we can add artistic education and the public influence of art. The various ways of deciphering this sign suggest the manifold articulations between the artistic and the social realm. That is, the political.”
IDEA artă + societate / IDEA arts + society
Editors: Bogdan Ghiu, Ciprian Mureșan, Timotei Nădășan (editor-in-chief), Alexandru Polgár, Adrian T. Sîrbu, Ovidiu Țichindeleanu, Raluca Voinea
ISSN 1583–8293
Terry Eagleton: After Theory (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · cultural theory, ethics, feminism, grand narratives, history, philosophy, politics, postmodernism, theory
As heralded everywhere from NPR to the pages of the New York Times Magazine, a new era is underway in our colleges and universities: after a lengthy tenure, the dominance of postmodern theory has come to an end. In this timely and topical book, the legendary Terry Eagleton (“one of [our] best-known public intellectuals.”-Boston Globe) traces the rise and fall of these ideas from the 1960s through the 1990s, candidly assessing the resultant gains and losses. What’s needed now, After Theory argues, is a return to the big questions and grand narratives. Today’s global politics demand we pay attention to a range of topics that have gone ignored by the academy and public alike, from fundamentalism to objectivity, religion to ethics. Fresh, provocative, and consistently engaging, Eagleton’s latest salvo will challenge everyone looking to better grasp the state of the world.
Publisher Basic Books, 2003
ISBN 0465017738, 9780465017737
231 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-31)
Comment (0)Karabogdan, Klobučar (eds.): Enigma of the Object: A Collection of Theoretical Writings (2006) [English, Croatian]
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, art, politics, theory
The reader published as part of the presentation of the work Enigma of the object presented within the Biennial of Quadrilateral: Relativism exhibition in the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia, 15.12.2005-26.2.2006.
Contributions by Mieke Bal, Nada Beroš, Zoran Erić, Marina Gržinić, Bojana Kunst, Tomislav Medak, Petar Milat, Žarko Paić, Ana Peraica, Nataša Petrešin, Zoran Roško, Marko Stamenković, Miško Šuvaković, Šefik Tatlić, Ana Vujanović.
Enigma objekta – Zbornik teorijskih tekstova / Enigma of the Object – A Collection of Theoretical Writings
Editors: Gordan Karabogdan, Nikica Klobučar
Publisher: Personal edition: Gordan Karabogdan and Nikica Klobučar, Zagreb, 2006.
ISBN 953-95352-0-4
148 pages