Tag: cultural politics
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Airing the Palace: From the Fortress-Museum to an Ecology of the Commons
The recent debate about the validity, function, and future of the museum—rekindled by the publication of Francesc Torres’s article “The Winter Palace Is Somewhere Else” and the responses it has triggered—has settled, with almost anesthetic ease, into a false battlefield. We seem forced to choose a trench in a binary war of positions: either we…
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The Privilege of Breaking: Art, Dissent, and Structural Inequality
This essay reflects on the material, social, and symbolic conditions that enable or limit the possibility of rupture in art, critical theory, and cultural practice. Through an intersectional critique, it argues that aesthetic freedom and the capacity to challenge norms are not universal prerogatives but privileges unequally distributed along lines of class, gender, race, sexuality,…