Today’s Links

• Issey Miyake VAKIO2/SILAL002 I want this watch.
• SvD: Filosofen som profet och obekväm röst. “Trots att Jacques Derrida gjorde filosofisk karriär genom att dekonstruera det filosofiska språket, framförde han mot slutet en tro på en absolut rättvisa.” (Via Erik Stattin.)
• Tate Online Events: Bernard Stiegler: Culture and Technology Lecture. “Bernard Stiegler is one of the foremost philosophers writing on technology and culture.”
• Tate Online Events: Paul Smith. “He has adapted paintings, comics and film and his sources reveal the passions and enthusiasms of a designer committed to innovation. This talk explores his approach to creative inspiration and the thinking behind his work.”
• Tate Online Events: Abstraction and Interpretation Study Day. “As well as locating different forms of abstraction within a broad frame of art history and cultural theory, discussions will cover the interpretation of abstract art within museums and the media.”
• Tate Online Events: Moving Images: Agnès Varda. “Continuing the series of talks by major figures working in or on film and video, the film-maker Agnès Varda talked about her work and ideas.”
• Tate Online Events: Immanent Choreographies: Deleuze and Neo-Aesthetics. “This two-day event, a series of presentations and performances, will bring together an international range of contributors to consider some of the ways in which Deleuze’s thought has been taken up and put to work in different media and art forms.”
• Tate Online Events: Thinking the City: Multidisciplinary Views on Urban Life and Culture. “A conference in which internationally celebrated cultural theorists explored the role art plays in forming our experience of modern cities.”
• Tate Online Events: Rem Koolhaas. “In advance of his new book on Lagos, architect and theorist Rem Koolhaas explores the particular dynamics of that city, its modes of dispersal and reclamation, and describes the flexibility, intensity and efficiency with which it functions.”
• Tate Online Events: Cruel & Tender: Martin Parr. “Perhaps the most successful British photographer of his generation, Martin Parr creates startling images that offer witty, unblinking insights into the social fabric of contemporary Britain.”
• Tate Online Events: Alain deBotton: The lessons of Bohemia. “De Botton examines the lessons that a Bohemian way of life can provide today, and he attempts to re-endow a word, which has become increasingly devalued and clichéd, with an element of seriousness and dignity.”
• Tate Online Events: Manuel DeLanda: Nature Space Society. “This talk is part of a discussion series consisting of three sessions on the relationships between society, space and nature, and how they are currently being transformed both theoretically and by technological and environmental changes in the world.”

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