Chris Mansour Platypus Review 52 | December 2012–January 2013 On September 21, 2012, Chris Mansour interviewed Stephen Eric Bronner, a professor at Rutgers University and author of Rosa Luxemburg: A Revolutionary for Our Times (1980), Socialism Unbound (1990), Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists (1994), and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement (2004), [...]
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The occupation of art’s labor: An interview with Julia Bryan-Wilson
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 45 | April 2012 [PDF] On November 28, 2011, Chris Mansour interviewed Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era (2009). Mansour and Bryan-Wilson talked about the history of the Art Workers’ Coalition and [...]
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The antinomy of art and politics: A critique of art as “cultural resistance”
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 39 | September 2011 [PDF] At the 2011 Left Forum, held at Pace University between March 18–21, Platypus hosted a conversation on the theme of Aesthetics in Protests. Panelists Stephen Duncombe (Reclaim the Streets), Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest), Chris Mansour (Platypus), Laurel Whitney (The Yes Men), were asked to [...]
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Postcolonialism or postmodernism? An interview with Susan Buck-Morss
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 34 | April 2011 [PDF] On February 11, 2011—the day Hosni Mubarak resigned the office of President of Egypt—Chris Mansour interviewed Susan Buck-Morss, professor of political philosophy and social theory at Cornell University and author of The Origin of Negative Dialectics and Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the [...]
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Platypus at 2011 Left Forum in NYC
Platypus presents: Lessons from the history of Marxism @ Left Forum March 18-20, 2011 Pace University next to City Hall, New York City online registration page: http://www.leftforum.org/node/23 directions: http://www.leftforum.org/directions Please join us for the following panel discussions: The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx’s point of view //Saturday, March 19 | 10:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. | [...]
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Praxis, theory, and the unmakeable: An interview with Robert Hullot-Kentor
Chris Mansour Platypus Review 33 | March 2011 [PDF] On February 19, 2011, Chris Mansour of Platypus interviewed Robert Hullot-Kentor, noted Adorno translator and author of Things Beyond Resemblance: Collected Essays on Theodor W. Adorno. What follows is an edited transcript of the interview. Chris Mansour: For several decades you have been translating and interpreting [...]
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What is critique? forum (New York, 11/20/10) video
Posted below are two videos from the day-long symposium, What is Critique?, held on November 20th, 2010, at Parsons, the New School for Design, New York. The first video is from the afternoon panel, The Art Critique: Its History, Theories, and Practices. This panel consisted of Tom Butter, Simone Douglas, and James Elkins; it was moderated [...]
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I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
A Response to “Questionnaire on ‘The Contemporary’” in October and “What is Contemporary Art?” in e-flux[1] Chris Mansour Platypus Review 28 | October 2010 All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it [...]
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The sport of protest
Resistance to the Olympics coming to Chicago Chris Mansour photo taken by Matthew Cassel NO GAMES CHICAGO WAS FOUNDED in the summer of 2008 when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that Chicago was among the bid cities for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The group’s aim is to prevent Chicago from hosting the games—nothing [...]
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