Michael A. Robinson

Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza Amnesty International has documented damning evidence of war crimes.

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Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

IDF random killing civilians coming for food?

More food aid killings. When will the world wake up?🇵🇸💔

One way of looking at my work.

10,000 new conscripts plan to destroy all infrastucture 'above and below the ground', to ensure that nothing is left.💔🇵🇸

Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice?

Georges Bataille

YouTube video by SonicYouthVEVO Sonic Youth - Superstar

Remember me?

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YouTube video by Ippolit Belinski Chef Slavoj (Žižek) cooks some capitalism with a hint of failure of the left

Better than April fools!

YouTube video by marcofunke Stealing Beaty (Trailer)

The artist and his family staged scenes in the display rooms of IKEA stores, using hidden cameras and without the company's permission.

Canadian company in negotiations with Trump to mine seabed Environmentalists call bid to skirt UN treaty ‘reckless’ amid fears that mining will cause irreversible loss of biodiversity

oh canada....😅

Michelangelo Pistoletto
The Minus Objects, 1965

It's an error to imagine that art needs to be defended. It's a warlike posture that can, and often should, be refused.

Halt the sale of Canadian steel and aluminum to the U.S.A. and see how quickly they come crawling back!🤔

'Ce n’est pas la compétition qui est au cœur de l’évolution mais l’interdépendance de l’ensemble du vivant et, à un niveau d’ordre cosmique, le changement et la transformation inévitables de toute chose.'

YouTube video by David Dean Burkhart Cindy Lee - Baby Blue

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sword on the muscle!

Is This Tyranny? Hans Kern

Sympathy for tyranny is expressed through a casual desire for a ‘benevolent dictator,’ but also the unsettling willingness of many to let data and ostensibly objective science govern an ever-increasing portion of human affairs. Both of these impetuses seem to permeate our culture today.

The Intangibilities of Form In this intellectually wide-ranging book John Roberts develops a labor theory of culture as a model for explaining the dynamics of avant-garde art and the expansion of artistic authority in the twenti...

The Intangibilities of Form proposes nothing less than a powerfully original labor theory of culture, highlighting the prominence of a context shaped by the readymade, to account for the constitutive interlacing of contemporary art and technology, skill and deskilling.

Michael A. Robinson

Neo-Materialism, Part II: The Unreadymade - Journal #23 …

One of the best writings on New Materialism. Joshua Simon. Required reading.

studio 2024

A nice selection of images from my show in Naples.

Anti-Americanisms Biases as diverse as the country itself

Aversion is what drives Canadian anti-Americanism, which is probably better described as “not PRO-American.” While we have a core sense of what we are, the U.S. helps us recognize all the things we never want to become.

In contemporary art, digitality has assumed a new type of presence―no longer only as a virtual sphere of sociality, but increasingly as a technological interface that structures our embodied experiences.

a.i. will make some great art at the request of and by the prompting of humans. It's ok, it's not threatening and we have nothing to defend against. People will prefer art by people just like we like movies more than advertising.