Category: Debate
Issue 99 May 2006
The Art of War
The Israeli Defence Forces have been heavily influenced by contemporary philosophy, highlighting the fact that there is considerable overlap among theoretical texts deemed essential by military academies and architectural schools
Issue 91 May 2005
Debate: Tolerance
Tolerance is the basic prerequisite for a humane society. Have its goals become confused?
Issue 88 February 2005
Over the Border
Reporting from the outer limits of the critical frontier
Issue 88 February 2005
Debate: Ethnocentrism
Geographically defined group exhibitions abound, categorizing artists according to nationality, ethnicity, or both. Are these shows an attempt to resist the evaporation of cultural difference? Or do they fetishize locality and biography, undermining more complex approaches to looking at art?
Issue 87 November-December 2004
Soft Machine
Even ‘hawks’ have begun to doubt that exerting ‘hard power’ – sheer military and economic strength – is enough. Cultural persuasion, or ‘soft power’, is the new buzzword
Issue 77 September 2003
Eternal Return
The philosophy of repetition
Issue 71 November-December 2002
Down Mexico Way
The hybrid culture of Tijuana
Issue 69 September 2002
Black Power Imagery
A Picture Piece
Issue 47 June-August 1999
The Moment of Truth
The cultural quest for authenticity
Issue 46 May 1999
Lipstick Traces
Three recent surveys of feminism in the late-90s





















