The anthropologist Ruth Finnegan coined the expression “pathways of urban life” to describe the musical practices of a small British town. These pathways are constituted by the web of social acts of those who take part in this musical life, and they remain in force to the extent that those relationships, and the resulting habits, sustain their force and continuity. … 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 — in the catalogue text in which they are embedded — as though they were necessarily tied to it, when in reality the work itself, in its material-conceptual formality, need not refer to that text … Read more →
Inertia is understood here in a sense close to that proposed 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 their operations. As an example: a block of raw stone confronted by a sculptor is an inertia. The successive … Read more →