School of Critical Studies

An online conference. The imagination has a long and complex trajectory as a human faculty, but in this epoch of planetary-scale computation and the explosion of synthetic intelligence, genomic engineering, and robotics it has been decentered and accelerated in compelling and disconcerting...

This presentation is concerned with the relationship between creative processes and the incomplete, broken, or hidden. We’re going to explore how creative processes can remain unstable, deploying the kinds of scrutiny that don’t destroy. If we were watching a particularly uneven...

Admiror is a collaborative work by artists Bahar Noorizadeh and Klara Kofen that stages five episodic dialogues on the sentimental logic of capitalism. A decade before publishing his magnum opus “The Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith released his less discussed premise for the ethical...

Nizan Shaked discusses her next project, Art Against the System, which examines the practices of artists and collectives that surgically intervene into state structure to offer expandable models, or affect visible political change. Using aesthetic analysis and manipulating form, they...

Recent forms of Analytic Marxism have tried to bridge the Marxian framework of analysis of Capital, and specifically, abstract domination, with the resources one may find in the so-called Pittsburgh School of Philosophy (Sellars, Brandom, McDowell)....

From 1916 to 1917, Francis Picabia worked on a mixed-media drawing that he entitled Universal Prostitution. On the face of it, Universal Prostitution looks like a machine part standing vertically against an undifferentiated field, connected to another machine part through a...