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(P/B) 100 YEARS OF CRUELTY
100 Years of Cruelty: Essays on Artaud brings together responses to the Artaud question from some of the leading contemporary scholars working in the humanities today. The essays cover a wide variety of topics in opening the Artaud question to the disciplines - and the demarcations upon which so much knowledge and art practice is defined. They are intended as an affront to conservative thought, as an attack on clinical reason and as an open challenge to the corporate university. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CHAOSMOSIS
The final work by the author before his death in 1992, Chaosmosis is a radical and challenging work concerned with the reinvention and resingularisation of subjectivity. It attempts to embody affective change, the short-circuiting of signification and the proliferation of sense necessary to engage with non-discursive, artistic, poetic and pathic intensities. It includes critical reflections on Lacanian psychoanalysis, structuralism, information theory, postmodernism and the thought of Heidegger, Bakhtin, Barthes and others. (From the publi...
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(P/B) THE GULF WAR DID NOT TAKE PLACE

(P/B) REFRACTING VISION
From his early career as an art critic during the sixties to his art historical writings of recent decades, Michael Fried has remained one of the most controversial and fascinating art writers of the late twentieth century. The theoretical and historical after-effects of Fried's art criticism continue to be played out in contemporary art and criticism, while his art historical studies impinge on many of the most pressing recent debates in art history and theory. This collection brings together for the first time a range of scholarly respon...
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