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William Watkin
William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Philosophy at Brunel University, West London.  He is the author of In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde, On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature, The Literary Agamben: Adventures on Logopoiesis, Agamben and Indifference: A Critical Overview (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2014) and a forthcoming two-volume study of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event project.  He is currently writing a book on innovations in violence as a tool for the distribution of power at the global and local levels.

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Uneasy Lies the Head

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June 2015

William Watkin

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June 2015

Last October I was standing in my kitchen, waiting for espresso to trickle from the spout of our imposing machine. I kept glancing out...

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May 2014

The Quick Time Event

David Auerbach

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May 2014

The ability of computers to semantically understand the world – and the humans in it – is next to...

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February 2014

Only Responsible to Their Art: Heilan and the Chinese Avant-Garde

Chen Wei

TR. Tu Qiang

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February 2014

Heilan was established for a simple reason: over the past twenty years, there has not emerged a single medium...

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October 2013

At the Tate Britain: Art Under Attack

Joe Moshenska

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October 2013

Iconoclasts have never known quite what to do with the ruined fragments that they leave behind. If we imagine...

 

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