An economic collapse can set off the dynamics of resentment, it’s been seen before. But the key is to find the affective nexus where resentment and authoritarianism spring, and to offer some different resolution, a kind of constructive play – far away from standards and discipline.
Read more »Brian Holmes
Occupying Editor 01: Brian Holmes
For the next few weeks, this site will be occupied by Brian Holmes. A member of the editorial collective of the French journal Multitudes from 2003 to 2008, he is the author of Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering and Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society. Holmes was awarded the Vilém Flusser Prize for Theory at Transmediale in Berlin in 2009. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley.
Read more »Brian Holmes on KPFK
Brian Holmes interview that was aired on Beneath the Surface on Friday March 19th at 5pm. Brian Holmes is a Paris-based American Art Critic and radical Social Theorist who was in California on March 4th to participate in the demonstrations against the budget cuts in Public Education in California.…
Read more »Beyond Protest: Considering the UC Strike
Beyond Protest: Considering the UC Strike
Tuesday, March 2, 12-2pm
UC Santa Barbara, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Conference Room, 6th floor
6046 Humanities & Social Sciences Building
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Brian Holmes and Dmitri Vilensky will be in conversation.…
Read more »27 February
Continental Drift / Control Society / Metamorphosis
read more about this event here: http://occupyeverything.com/events/continental-drift/