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Berger on the narrative gap

November 23, 2012

“Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense of that life, the empty space, the gap is enormous. The desolation lies, lies there, not… Continue reading →

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From “The Country Without a Post Office”, by Agha Shahid Ali

November 3, 2012

Again I’ve returned to this country where a minaret has been entombed. Someone soaks the wicks of clay lamps in mustard oil, each night climbs its steps to read messages scratched on planets. His fingerprints cancel blank stamps in that… Continue reading →

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Azoulay on Citizenship & Photography

September 16, 2012
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Azoulay on citizenship and photography

May 25, 2012

“The civil contract of photography assumes that, at least in principle, the users of photography possess a certain power to suspend the gesture of the sovereign power which seeks to totally dominate the relations between them as governed – governed… Continue reading →

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One off: Ariella Azoulay.

May 25, 2012

“My mother wouldn’t allow me to go to the beach on Fridays. That’s the day the Arabs go. “They go with their clothes on,” she muttered. Ever since, I’ve carried around in my head an image of Arabs half-submerged in… Continue reading →

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One off: Vanessa Winship.

April 6, 2012

Untitled portrait, by Vanessa Winship, from Georgia work-in-progress.

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Berger on Art

April 6, 2012

“Art is neither value-free nor an independent source of values; to one extent or another, it always reflects the needs, politics, intellectual and aesthetic priorities, and tastes of the artist, the institutions that support and disseminate his or her work,… Continue reading →

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Piper on Political Art

April 6, 2012

“Motivated by self-censorship, and by the strategic understanding that making explicitly political art lessens the chances and the magnitude of professional success, this kind of implicitly political art is an expression of imprisonment within the bounds of political conflict, rather… Continue reading →

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One off: Irina Rozovsky.

April 6, 2012

Untitled, from One to Nothing by Irina Rozovsky. “All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on… Continue reading →

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Makdisi on the Separation Wall

April 6, 2012

“Seen from the Palestinian side, the wall is, unmistakably, a wall. Its brutalist design communicates unequivocally to the Palestinians what Israel thinks of them. Seen from the Israeli side, however, the wall is often not really a wall; in many sections, it… Continue reading →

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