This week’s reading: Thursday 17 December, 12.30-1.30pm, Group room 2, ground floor of the LRC at Ormskirk. Lunch is provided. All welcome. Slavoj Zizek: Tolerance as an Ideological Category Available at:  http://www.lacan.com/zizek-inquiry.html  A chance to read and discuss the controversial philosopher through this chapter on tolerance and ideology. Proposer: David Jackson  The academic reading group…

Bourriaud, Nicolas. (2002). Relational Aesthetics. (Trans. Simon Pleasance & Fronza Woods). France: Les presses du réel. In today’s session we discussed chapter one of Nicolas Bourriaud’s ‘Relational Aesthetics’.  I introduced the text by reading an excerpt from the foreword to the book (which wasn’t available on the web link) because in it he catalogued a…

Thursday 3rd December, 12.30-1.30pm, Group room 2, ground floor of the LRC at Ormskirk. Lunch is provided.  All welcome. Nicholas Bourriaud: Relational Aesthetics (1998/2002). Les presses du reel. Chapter 1, pp. 3-24. This can be found at:  http://wiki.mediamind.org/images/3/38/Bourriaud.pdf I’ve chosen this short extract from Bourriaud’s work for the following reasons: although written ten years ago…