Yanis Varoufakis Anticipates Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse in ‘Another Now’
Disguised as sci-fi, Yanis Varoufaikis’ Another Now contemplates how life post-capitalism might be more free and equal – and how that might be destroyed.
Vince Carducci
Vince Carducci is a cultural critic and publisher of the blog Motown Review of Art. He writes about the visual and literary arts, popular and consumer culture, politics, and the media. In 2010, he received the Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship for Criticism. He is Dean Emeritus at College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Follow him on Twitter @cultrindustreez
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‘The New Woman Behind the Camera’ Exhibit Celebrates a Gaze of Her Own
The New Woman Behind the Camera, an exhibition of midcentury women photographers, captures the ways they documented a changing world and reimagined their place within it.
Dawoud Bey’s American Project
Photographer Dawoud Bey’s exhibit at the Whitney (now until 3 October) represents Blackness as an integral part of the American experience.
Art Historian Dora Apel Queries What We Choose to Remember
In Calling Memory into Place, art historian and cultural critic Dora Apel explores the relationship between collective and personal memory and place in a series of reflective essays that are by turns erudite and personal.
Ignorance, Fear, and Democracy in America
Anti-intellectualism in America is, sadly, older than the nation itself. A new collection of Richard Hofstadter's work from Library of America traces the history of ideas and cultural currents in American society and politics.
First Tragedy, Then Farce, Then What?
Riffing off Marx's riff on Hegel on history, art historian and critic Hal Foster contemplates political culture and cultural politics in the age of Donald Trump in What Comes After Farce?
To the Vector the Spoils: On McKenzie Wark’s ‘Capital Is Dead’
In a brave new world dominated by platforms such as Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb, and marked by anxiety in the Age of the Anthropocene, McKenzie Wark's Capital Is Dead eschews digital utopianism for a sense of urgency that recognizes things have gotten serious.
‘Can Democracy Work?’ Is the Essential Question We Must Continue to Grapple With
James Miller's Can Democracy Work? is a coming-of-age story for a generation of Americans whose ideals of social, economic, and political progress foundered on the rocks of brute capitalist power.
Anthony Bourdain: Motor City Wannabe
Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain traveled the world, but his heart was in Motown.
Weaponizing Culture
Curator and art activist Nato Thompson argues that culture is not just contested terrain, it is a tool used for asserting and maintaining power.
Dead Man Counting: An Economic Ghost Story
Peter Fleming's new book Homo Economicus attempts to lay zombie capitalism to rest.
It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: ‘Against the Anthropocene’
Scientists have argued for a new period in Earth’s geological history, the Anthropocene. Cultural critic T.J. Demos offers a critical take on the concept, pros and cons.