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Social Practices
Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick. A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us witnesses to each other's lives. My escape is his prison. We meet in a bar and smoke Marlboros. —from Social Practices Mixing biography, autobiography, fiction, criticism, and conversations among friends, with Social Practices Chris Kraus continues the anthropological exploration of artistic lives and the art world begun in 2004 with Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness. Social Practices includes writings from and around the legendary “Chance Event—Three Days in the Desert with Jean Baudrillard” (1996), and “Radical...
Postborder City
The postborder metropolis of Bajalta California stretches from Los Angeles in the north to Tijuana and Mexicali in the south. Immigrants from all over the globe flock to Southern California, while corporations are drawn to the low wage industry of the Mexican border towns, echoing developments in other rapid growth areas such as Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio. This incredibly diverse, transnational megacity is giving birth to new cultural and artistic forms as it rapidly evolves into something unique in the world. Postborder City is a genuinely interdisciplinary investigation of the hybrid culture on both sides of the increasingly fluid U. S.-Mexico border, spanning the disciplines of art and art history, urban planning, geography, Latina/o studies, and American studies.
Baja California
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La gran bonanza
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Ehrgeiz, Demut, Glück
Ehrgeiz, Demut, Glück – seit über dreißig Jahren kreist Chris Kraus' Werk um diese Koordinaten. Sei es in ihren Essays zur Kunst, in denen zugleich die Kunst der Freundschaft Thema ist. Sei es in ihren berühmten Romanen oder den Texten über befreundete Schriftsteller:innen: Immer geht es um das unbedingte Streben, aus dem Wenigsten das Meiste zu machen – und um die zähe Überzeugung, selbst den widrigsten Umständen dieses Meiste abringen zu können. Mit einer Mischung aus Biografie, Autobiografie, Fiktion, Kritik und Gespräch erfindet Chris Kraus in den hier versammelten Texten eine neue Form der anthropologischen Erkundung: Ein Bericht über die Sex Workers' Art Show Tour reiht ...
Ventana amarilla
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