Category: Debate
Issue 141 September 2011
Look & Learn
The last two decades have seen a proliferation of curatorial studies programmes. How has this affected methodology and display, and what is the future of these courses?
Issue 139 May 2011
Word Play
Why a growing number of artists are turning away from image-making to writing and performance
Issue 133 September 2010
Analyze This
A round table discussion led by Jörg Heiser on ‘super-hybridity’: what is it and should we be worried? With Ronald Jones, Nina Power, Seth Price, Sukhdev Sandhu and Hito Steyerl
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






















