A.C.A.D.E.M.Y.

ed. by Bart de Baere ; Yilmaz Dziewior ; Charles Esche ...[et al.] ; texts Kodwo Eshun ; Dieter Lesage ; Dieter Roelstraete ...[et al.] ; visual essays Mark Dion ; Liam Gillick ; Apolonija Sustersic ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Kodwo Eshun, Dieter Lesage, Dieter Roelstraete, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Bart de Baere, Yilmaz Dziewior, Charles Esche, ...[et al.]

Publication, year

Frankfurt am Main : Revolver, 2006

Scope

278 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

3865883036

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In a world where criticality is perilously protected by the demands of free market productivity, it is necessary that some public institutions make a plea to be open fields of learning. How are we to set about formulating new questions or articulating incoherent dissatisfaction if we do not make use of such spaces in society? How could we come to know that which we do not yet perceive as possible knowledge, even if we experience something of its lack? The Idea of an academy should be presented here in all its potential, grasped as a source that offers society a chance of critical reflection and the encounter with complex ideas.

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Person as subject

Mark Dion, Liam Gillick, Apolonija Sustersic, ...[et al.]

Remarks

Incl. short Biographies.