Jean Clair, Harald Szeemann (eds.): The Bachelor Machines (1975) [DE/FR, IT/EN]

A travelling exhibition interpreting Marcel Duchamp’s work The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, shown at Union-Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Musée de l’Homme et de l’Industrie, Le Creusot; Konsthall Malmö; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

With texts by Marc Le Bot, Bazon Brock, Michel Carrouges, Michel de Certeau, Jean Clair, Peter Gorsen, Gilbert Lascault, Jean-François Lyotard, Gunter Metken, Alain Montesse, René Radrizzani, Arturo Schwarz, Michel Serres, Harald Szeemann.

Publisher Alfieri, Venice, 1975
236 pages

Italian/English edition
Publisher Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1975
ISBN 0847800199, 9780847800193
236 pages

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WorldCat (IT/EN)

Junggesellenmaschine / Les machines célibataires (German/French, 1975, 99 MB, added on 2019-12-6)
Le Macchine Celibi / The Bachelor Machines (Italian/English, 1975, 53 MB, no OCR, updated on 2019-12-6)

Alain Badiou: Handbook of Inaesthetics (1998–)

“Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation between art and philosophy, together with the pure and simple collapse of what circulated between them: the theme of education.

Whence the thesis of which this book is nothing but a series of variations: faced with such a situation of saturation and closure, we must attempt to propose a new schema, a fourth type of knot between philosophy and art.

Among these “inaesthetic” variations, the reader will encounter a sustained debate with contemporary philosophical uses of the poem, bold articulations of the specificity and prospects of theater, cinema, and dance, along with subtle and provocative readings of Fernando Pessoa, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Samuel Beckett.”

Originally published in French as Petit manuel d’inesthetique, Seuil, Paris, 1998

Translated by Alberto Toscano
Publisher Stanford University Press, 2004
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics series
ISBN 0804744092, 9780804744096
168 pages

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Pierre Bourdieu, Hans Haacke: Free Exchange (1994–)

“How can we affirm the independence of critical artists and intellectuals when confronted by the new crusaders of Western culture, the neoconservative champions of morality and good taste, the sponsorship of multinationals and the patronage theorists who have lost all touch with reality? How can we safeguard the world of free exchange which is and must remain the world of artists, writers and scholars?

These are some of the questions discussed by the leading social thinker Pierre Bourdieu and the artist Hans Haacke in this remarkable book. Their frank and open dialogue on contemporary art and culture ranges widely, from censorship and obscenity to the social conditions of artistic creativity. Among the examples they discuss are the controversies surrounding the exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano, the debates concerning multiculturalism and ethnic diversity, and the uses of art as a means of contesting and disrupting symbolic domination. They also explore the central themes of Hans Haacke’s work, which is used to illustrate the book.

Free Exchange is a timely intervention in current debates and a powerful analysis of the conditions and concerns of critical artists and intellectuals today.”

First published in French as Libre-échange, Éditions de Seuil/les presses du réel, 1994

Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, in association with Blackwell Publishers, 1995
ISBN 0745615228, 0745615228
144 pages

Reviews: Jennifer Peterson (Chicago Review), Vincent Dubois (Politix, FR).

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