Week 6 –forms

Michael Dale

a project page (for presentation) which reflects some of the ideas presented in this weeks readings.

Questions:

-Spivak
What would constitute art that acknowledges institutional position?
How would we characterize our instructional position? - By similar economic conditions or by sense of community? (pg227) 

-Benjamine
How do the modes of production of our artwork affect the artworks function?
What does it mean to promote the socialization of the intellectual means of production? (238)
-context provision?, sharing the power to represent? 

-Taussig
How can we/art raise awareness of what we already know but don’t know we knew? (pgxiii)
How do we speak as a fetish?
“For it is precisely as mineral or vegetable matter that they appear to speck for themselves and carry the weight of human history in the guise of natural history.”(xviii)

-Gandhi
Can we really criticize Gandhi?
What would constitute Soul-force artwork?
Would this soul-force artwork have an author? a name? a history?, a means of representation? Would it be un-definable as natural order?
“History is really a record of every interruption of the ever working force of love or of the soul” (pg111)
Where is Gandhi’s place in nation state story?
“we do not want the tyranny of either English rule or Indian rule”(pg117)
Where is Gandhi’s place in the ‘continues stream of intellectual history.’(Spivak 273) 

-Arundhati Roy
What to do when you’re living in a fascist state?
How can we frame the nonviolent war against neo-liberalism?
“we need to lookup and urgently discuss strategies of resistance, wage real battles and inflict real damage”(pg117)
How does Arundhati’s work fit into a tactical or strategic engagement?
Art/Activism Examples:
Indy media Coca-Cola sucking India dry
Activist art campaign: killer coke from Colombia.
Arundhati Roy appearances on Democracy Now

-Sharon Daniel
Would the practice of context-provision be applicable to theoretical discourse? For example would it make sense to “publish” this context-provision paper on a wiki?
Art/Activism Examples:
A short parody blog post about the “destruction” of the author. The post accuses piracy of hitting new lows in wikifing the free culture book.