Luc Boltanski Archives - Public Seminar

Feature

The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization

Poetry, Art, and the New Spirit of Capitalism

July 16, 2017 • by Vince Carducci

Updating Walter Benjamin -- whose famous essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' on which the title of his book riffs -- poet and critic Jasper Bernes seeks nothing less than a complete reconsideration of poetry and art over the past 50 years, coinciding with the ...

Punk Preempts the Post-Popstar Age

Prosumption and Celebrity within Neoliberal Economics

November 1, 2016 • by Jared Davis

“maybe they’re born with it. maybe they watched loads of YouTube tutorials.” So reads the SoundCloud page description of Internet-native photographer, artist, and musician Arvida Byström. In the 1977 issue of the UK fanzine Sideburns, the punk movement was once instructed, “this is a chord, this is another, this is a ...

The Problem with Humanitarian Borders

Toward a new framework of justice

September 18, 2015 • by Miriam Ticktin

The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in recent political and media debates about undocumented migrants crossing into Europe and North America. The unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States reached the designation of “humanitarian crisis” last summer, i.e. 2014, whereas the most recent tipping point ...