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The Incidental University
Variant. Special Issue. Spring 2025 __________ “In 2014 Marxist Historian Peter Linebaugh opened his farewell address to the University of Toledo in Counterpunch with “These reflections originate in rage…” before offering up a dictionary definition of rage as “poetic or prophetic enthusiasm”. A reference to his former tutor E.P Thompson reminds us that the initial…
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Art Networks
Anthony Davies and Simon Ford. The Academy and The Corporate Public (Ed. Stephan Dillemuth). Permanent Press 2002
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Notes on Art and Finance
Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University, London, 2009 ________ “Ian Hunt: Anthony Davies is an independent writer and researcher who has focused on structural political questions about art and culture: specifically how art functions within capitalism as it has mutated. Benedict Seymour, who has been involved with mute magazine, is also a writer and researcher,…
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Take Me I’m Yours: Neoliberalising the Cultural Institution
Mute Magazine 2:5, April 2007 __________ “In March 2006, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona (MACBA), flagship ‘progressive art institution’, staged the second part of Another Relationality, a conference and workshop project examining the legacy of institutional critique and the new social and political functions of art. The event included presentations from sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato,…