Material for thought
Posted in art on Apr 25th, 2010
Few quotes from the book “Issues in curating contemporary art and performance” by Judith Rugg and Michèle Sedgwick: As cultural agents, curators and artists participate in the production of cultural value. Exhibitions are, therefore, contemporary forms of rhetoric, complex expressions of persuasion, whose strategies aim to produce a prescribed set of values and social relations for their [...]
Posted in philosophy on Apr 1st, 2010
List of system theories as enumerated by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in “General System Theory” (1968): Classical system theory, basically maths. Computerization and simulation using models. Compartment theory: “the system consists in subunits with certain boundary conditions between which transport process takes place”. Set theory, which studies general formal properties of systems. Graph theory concerned with topological [...]
Posted in philosophy on Mar 27th, 2010
According to the psychologist Jean Pieget, “young children do have a lot of fantasy in thought. They may imagine that they are magically affecting things. And they have to learn to distinguish certain ‘fantasies’ which are to be called ‘reality’, namely the ones that pass the tests of reality”: that stand up the experience of reality [...]
Posted in philosophy on May 6th, 2009
In his book “Vinyl Leaves, Walt Disney World and America”, Stephen M. Fjellman analyses Disney World and how it incarnates a postmodern society based on consumerism. Here is a summary of his thoughts. In the introduction, Mr. Fjellman makes a reference to the book “Brave New World” from Aldous Huxley. The book describes an utopian [...]
Posted in philosophy on Apr 14th, 2009
I’ve read recently the excellent book from Jay Winter “Dreams of Peace and Freedom – Utopian Moments in the 20th Century“. It is part of my curatorial homework for the exhibition “Living the Dream of Modernity” that I’m preparing to launch very soon. Here is a summary. Mr. Winter understands utopia as a discourse in [...]
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