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A Conversation with Chris Burden

A Conversation with Chris Burden

By David Robbins
An evergreen draw of any great metropolis is that its complex workings offer up opportunities you never imagined you’d have. It’s entirely possible to find yourself face to face with one of your heroes, as I did with Chris Burden in Soho, thirty-five years ago. This is the first publication of our conversation.
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Pedagogies of Payment

Pedagogies of Payment

By BFAMFAPhD
The growing cost of higher education occurs within the entrepreneurial university, a term used by Ronald Barnett to describe the increased focus on economic value as the primary metric for judging success in higher education. As Noam Chomsky has pointed out, debt is a disciplinary technique.
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What Is Transformative?

By Nate Harrison
Due to one federal judge in 1990, a discourse of the “transformative” now dominates fair use decisions in copyright infringement lawsuits involving appropriation art. The result has been both a boon and a burden for artists, but they must now re-examine the intellectual horizon of their practices, and understand that clearly defining the “transformative" would help them.
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Cleanish Comedy

Can Clean Comedy Be Queer

By Ashley Gavin
Having a “TV Clean” routine is a basic requirement for comedians. These sets often lead to work around the country and the opportunity to produce content for television. But can one’s comedy be clean if the comedian telling the jokes is herself, as a lesbian and feminist, a symbol of a provocative content?
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On Monuments and Malls

By David Kaufmann
Robert Smithson’s “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic” mortifies the already-dying town and claims that the fantasies that underlie it are nothing but cut-rate dreams of the future. If he had only gone a few miles further into Bergen County, Smithson would have seen that discounted future at work. He would have seen it at the mall.
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Touching You, Touching Me

Touching You, Touching Me

By David Muenzer
Intimacy, trust, and friendship: these old humanist goods, in the strong sense of the word, take strange turns when daily life includes the insistent pings of social media and bedtime binge-watching. When the so-called television “renaissance” is managed for risk yet animates its characters with extreme violence, does it still merit the term rebirth?
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