Will-o’-the-Wisping, in Word and Image
“Logic will train your mind all right; / Like inquisitor’s boots it will squeeze you tight”, exclaims Mephistopheles when he meets the Student in the third scene of Faust: Part One, and...
Florian Mussgnug
Gillo Dorfles (1910-2018): The Freedom of Mythopoeia
by Florian Mussgnug When the members of Gruppo 63 assembled for the third time, in 1965, to discuss the fate of the experimental novel, Gillo Dorfles agreed to open the debate with...
‘Utopie radicali’, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Fifty years after its inception, Florentine Radical Architecture has attracted an extraordinary flurry of celebratory activity, including at least three large exhibitions:Â Super Superstudio (PAC, Milan: Oct 2015 to Jan 2016), Superstudio...
Elephants in the Dark: Towards a Theory of Interartistic Practice
A famous Indian folk tale tells the story of six men in a dark room, groping an elephant to learn what it is really like. Each one touches a different part and...
Postmodernism R.I.P.?
Art is how we make ourselves intelligible to ourselves. This is why critical debates about contemporary culture matter, not only to specialists. This is why we are fascinated by “-isms”, by new...