The anthropologist Ruth Finnegan coined the expression “pathways of urban life” to describe the musical practices of a small British town. These pathways are made up of the web of social acts of those taking part in that musical life, and they hold so long as the relationships, and the habits they produce, retain their force and continuity. It is … Read more →
The thesis to be set out here is the following: many works of current art present themselves wrapped in the text of their own justification — the catalogue text in which they are embedded — as though they were tied to it of necessity, when in reality the work itself, in its material-conceptual form, need not refer to that text … Read more →
Inertia is understood here in a sense close to the one set out by Newtonian physics in its first law, which we take as known. We apply this sense to any process or material state indifferent to the subject’s intentions and prior to his operations. As an example: a block of raw stone confronted by a sculptor is an inertia. … Read more →