On my recent trip to Milan for Mayday I got to meet Alex Foti over lunch. We decided to conduct an interview by email and here it is. Foti is the author of a manifesto I quoted at length in an early blog post, regardind the politics of Precarity and the so-called ‘cognitariat’ in Italy […]
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Some friends invited me to join them on a “hobo” bike ride this past Sunday. We got on BART at 16th St. at 2:30 and rode an hour to the end of the line at Pittsburg. There we rode on a multi-use path along the outer reaches of Bay Area suburbs until we reached Somersville […] Finished reading The Body of the Artisan by Pamela H. Smith, subtitled “Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution”. It’s a beautiful art book, full of illustrations and plates to bring forth her argument that the artists and artisans of the late 1500s and 1600s were crucial participants in developing a new epistemology. The work […] |
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