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18.5.2025



How to Understand Hauntology




The concept of hauntology (hantologie) was introduced by Jacques Derrida in his now well-known book Specters of Marx (1993). Derrida conceived hauntology as a way to explain the return of the past, of lost futures, the ghostly traces that refuse to vanish, and the impossibility of a pure, self-contained “now.”





30.4.2025



Beyond Spectacle: A Critical Assessment
of Pussy Riot's Political Art



Although Pussy Riot are no PFLP and their performances operate in a distinctly different register, their cathedral action was primarily political in intent rather than focused on artistic innovation.







18.1.2025



The Air Is On Fire



Review of David Lynch's exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris, published by Kunstkritikk, a Danish art magazine, in May 2007.





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