A very handy bunch of linked articles at the end of Claire Bishop’s article in e-flux (thanks Josie) – which, spoiler alert!, is number-heavy depression-inducing state of the condemned world analysis we do need to read.
Claire Bishop, Con-Demmed to the Bleakest of Futures: Report from the UK / Journal / e-flux.
Melanie Gilligan, Visits from the Future
Sabeth Buchmann and Jens Kastner, Snapshot, Austria: Class Struggle from Above Right
Tom Holert, Birth of the Rebel Citizen in Germany
Hito Steyerl, Right in Our Face
Brian Holmes, Total Corruption: Report from the USA
Paul Chan, Progress as Regression
Franco Berardi Bifo, Exhaustion and Senile Utopia of the Coming European Insurrection
Hito Steyerl, Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Postdemocracy
Nora Sternfeld, Unglamorous Tasks: What Can Education Learn from its Political Traditions?
Isabelle Bruno and Christopher Newfield, Can the Cognitariat Speak?
Florian Schneider, (Extended) Footnotes On Education
Tom Holert, Art in the Knowledge-based Polisvia
(I am going to consume this lot, mix it with this http://wp.me/pcKI3-lg- and thereby maybe have something to talk about at the Goldsmiths Teach-in on 16 Feb. Also planning to show a short film made in Australia in 88 at an Education demo in Melbourne – Anatomy of a March [McQuire, Hutnyk, Phipps])