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Showing 1 - 12 of 14 results for “boris groys”
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  • Writings on Art and Politics

    by Boris Groys ...
    To the philosopher Boris Groys, everything technology produces in the modern world ultimately falls into two categories – it's art, or it's garbage. Both are useless, defunctionalized objects that simply lie there. The difference between them comes when we immunize art from the destructive power of time to which we devoutly deliver our garbage.In this collection of essays and interviews, Groys ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Philosophy of Care

    by Boris Groys ...
    Retracing the philosophical discussions around careOur current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the “creative class” over the rest of the population that is predominantly occupied by forms of care – medical care, child care, agriculture, industrial ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On the New

    by Boris Groys ...
    On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture from profanity, is at the center of Boris Groys's investigation which aims to map the uncharted ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Art Power

    by Boris Groys ...
    A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician Boris Groys, is hardly a powerless commodity subject to the art market's fiats of inclusion and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Becoming an Artwork

    by Boris Groys ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    Modern history is a history of aesthetizations – and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no exception. They also present themselves as objects of contemplation that deserve admiration and care. For some time, artists and intellectuals ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Unwatchable

    by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright, Alex Bush, Alec Butler, Noel Carroll, Mel Chen, Jonathan Crary, Abigail De Kosnik, Samuel England, Mattias Frey, Peter Geimer, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Asbjørn Grønstad, Boris Groys, Frances Guerin, Jack Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, Julian Hanich, Stefano Harney, J. Hoberman, Lynne Joyrich, Alexandra Juhasz, E. Ann Kaplan, Katariina Kyrölä, Nathan Lee, Akira Lippit, Jennifer Malkowski, W.J.T. Mitchell, Brandy Monk-Payton, Fred Moten, Bill Nichols, Jan Olsson, Danielle Peers, Raul Perez, Mauro Resmini, B. Ruby Rich, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rebecca Schneider, Jeffrey Sconce, Jared Sexton, Philipp Stiasny, Meghan Sutherland, Bennet Togler, Leshu Torchin, Alok Vaid-Menon, Christophe Wall-Romana, Meir Wigoder, Emily Wills, Federico Windhausen, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Genevieve Yue, Alenka Zupancic, Poulomi Saha, Vivian Sobchack ...
    We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Alexandre Kojève

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Boris Groys ...
    Unravelling the mystery of Alexandre KojèveIn this intellectual biography, critic and philosopher Boris Groys turns to the Arthur Rimbaud of modern bureaucracy, Alexandre Kojève, a philosopher of little-known writings and profound influence. Kojève was fascinated with Hegel’s dialectics and with communism and envisioned a universal empire as the end of history. Kojève drew on Buddhism and also ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Total Art of Stalinism

    Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond

    by Boris Groys ...
    Translated by Charles Rougle ...
    From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Russian Cosmism

    Edited by Boris Groys ...
    Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the radical biopolitical utopianists of Russian Cosmism.Cosmism emerged in Russia before the October Revolution and developed through the 1920s and 1930s; like Marxism and the European avant-garde, two other movements that shared this intellectual moment, Russian Cosmism rejected the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Communist Postscript

    by Boris Groys ...
    Translated by Thomas Ford ...
    Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Philosophie der Sorge

    by Boris Groys ...
    Zur menschlichen Existenz gehört elementar die Sorge. Sie besitzt vielerlei Formen: Fürsorge, Selbstsorge, Pflege oder medizinische Vorsorge. Spätestens mit der Pandemie wurde klar, dass der Körper nicht mehr Privatbesitz des Subjekts ist. Stattdessen wurde das leibliche Wohl beinahe vollständig sozialisiert, bürokratisiert und politisiert. Das Ich scheint die Selbstbestimmung an ein Gesundheits ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cosmic Shift

    Russian Contemporary Art Writing

    by Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Pavel Pepperstein, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, Andrey Monastyrsky, Arseny Zhilyaev ...
    A TLS Book of the Year 2017In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's contemporary art, culture and and theory.With contributions from Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys, Dmitri Prigov, Anton Vidokle, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD