Trajectories

From September 2008 – June 2010, Ellie Harrison undertook a Leverhulme Scholarship on the Master of Fine Art programme at Glasgow School of...

This graph shows the projected average global temperature increase over the forthcoming century if we remain on our current trajectory of ec...

Looking back, 1979 now emerges as a pivotal year in the recent history of our species. On 6 October this year the US central bank, the Feder...

‘Thatcher’s children’ as my generation are known, were indoctrinated to believe that the world owed us a living ( Blackburn 2009 ). “Success...

Films such as The Road ( Hillcoat 2009 ) offer us a very different picture of the forthcoming century. In this barely hospitable, yet eerily...

What is curious about the neoliberal project kick-started in the year of my birth, is that, from the politics of the preceding decade, it ap...

“It’s useless to wait – for a breakthrough, for the revolution, the nuclear apocalypse or a social movement. To go on waiting is madness. Th...

In September 2009, the international journal of “critical perspectives on contemporary art and culture” Third Text dedicated an entire issue...

Araeen’s call for art to be liberated from “containment and legitimisation” ( Araeen & Appignanesi 2009, p.500 ) foresees the unpreceden...

Whereas Araeen’s manifesto (inline with the desperate pleas of environmental campaigns such as 10:10) gives a sense that something can be do...

Drawing together the diagnoses which recur throughout the literature of the moment, such as Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? ( F...

Counter to Kant’s belief that the fields of ethical decision making (part of ‘practical reason’) and aesthetic decision making (part of ‘jud...

What might it look like if we took the risk? What might we end up with if we followed the points in the ‘ plan of action ’ to the word? It i...

Returning to Badhwar’s essay, it is important to note the impulsive and / or compulsive nature of the acts of altruism that she studied – “t...

According to Artur Żmijewski, his recent work Democracies – a series of documentary clips depicting different protest movements from around ...

It has been suggested that the most successful campaigning bodies, such as Greenpeace, function “through multi-pronged channels of official,...

Following Aristotle’s classic assertion that moral excellence is found in a person’s rational capacity to choose the mean between extremes (...

In a recent interview Rancière reminds us “that there are certain situations where only reality can be taken into account – there is no roo...

- Abbing H 2002; Why Are Artists Poor?: The Exceptional Economy of the Arts , Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press - Alves M T 2010; Urgent...