Theoretical: Re-Imagining the City as a Revolutionary Utopia. Theoretical: “Re-Imagining the City as Revolutionary Utopia” With Tom McDonough and Alexander Galloway.
Theoretical is a new critical discourse series at ISSUE Project Room curated in collaboration with Brandon W. Joseph (Columbia University), David Grubbs (Brooklyn College), and Seth Kim-Cohen (Yale University). Through monthly talks, panels, and classes, this series seeks to actively engage artists, writers, and audiences in examining and discussing key issues in contemporary aesthetic theory, media, urban space and politics. On February 1st, we invite you to join ISSUE Project Room for Theoretical: Re-Imagining the City as Revolutionary Utopia, a discussion between Tom McDonough and Alexander Galloway about Situationist Urbanism. The Situationist International (SI), led by Guy Debord and central to the Paris uprising in May 1968, published many incendiary texts on politics and art in the journal Internationale Situationniste. One central theme to their work was rethinking the city: from a site for routine consumption and work to a utopia that breaks down barriers between function and play. Book Launch event for The Situationists and the City: A Reader, edited and translated by Tom McDonough (Verso Books) Free and open to the public For more info: http://tinyurl.com/ydedtet _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
