Politics and Art in the Digital Age, Part 3: Ruthless Criticism

Part three of my discussion on criticism in the digital age. Check out parts one and two. Recently New York … More

#DearCongress

The Today Show is tracking the Twitter hashtag gathering tweets about the government shutdown #DearCongress, ‘I am embarrassed to be … More

On the Red or the Blue Rug

The 2012 presidential election seems like a very unartistic election. Romney is completely artless, although he is a fabricator of … More

Cooperation in Public Space

Architects and urban planners have long debated the idea that built environments can positively affect social behavior. It’s always been … More

Post-Democracy

A couple of weeks ago the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas stood before a hot, crowded lecture hall at the Goethe Institute in … More

Shame, Lies, and WikiLeaks

Slavoj Žižek weighs in on the WikiLeaks controversy with characteristic dialectical zig-zags ending in an apocalyptic vision. He starts in … More

The Function of Criticism Today (Redux)

The end of the year is a bad time for writing on arts and culture. All those Ten Best lists … More

MAS Context 8: PUBLIC

MAS Context’s latest issue looks at the idea of the public, a vexed concept with a rich and complex history. … More

Fun Friday: The Last Newspaper and Last Picture Show Edition

Last night was my company Christmas party and, appropriately enough for a publishing company in the last days of the … More

Bloggers, Hobbits, and Architectural Critics

Iker Gil of MAS Context forwards on this post from Shannon Mattern of The New School about the role of … More