I relay a text I found at the 16Beaver website on Maurizio Lazzarato who is one of the editors of the revue Multitudes, and someone that you may know, all of you... This text has been submitted by architect-cumtheoretician Eyal Weizman.

Maurizio Lazzarato: The Misfortunes of the “Artistic Critique” and of Cultural Employment

An interview between Truls Lies and Jacques Rancière on the various interests of the philosopher: the question of the political, the aesthetics and politics, the society of control, films...

Truls Lie, Jacques Rancière

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-08-11-lieranciere-en.html

Our police order: What can be said, seen, and done
"Politics is when you create a kind of stage where you include your enemy," says Jacques Rancière in his book The Politics of Aesthetics.

I am actually working on a seminar articulating the questions of "Strategies of collaborations, participation", Public sphere which starting point will be the research of Chantal Mouffe, Markus Miessen, The famous text of Florian Schneider "The Dark Site of the Multitude" that he has posted here..., the exhibitions such as Société Anonyme, the concept of "Collectif" (in French --> "Collectives" in English) such as The 2007 Edition of Biennale de Lyon (Hans Ulrich Obrist/Stéphanie Moisdon) has examined.

Here is a text written by the theoretician Brian Holmes of Bureau d'étude. As I need this text for a curatorial project I am working on, I decided to share a part of my research for the audience, here. I hope that you will appreciate this text... I usually use my iBook, but otday (as the other previous posts), I am using the PC and I don't know where is the symbol of Copyright...

"The Flexible Personality:For a New Cultural Critique

by Brian Holmes

The events of the century's turn, from Seattle to New York, have shown that

A very insteresting text written by Ian Varcoe that I found on opendemocracy.net

Reading Zygmunt Bauman is a literary experience. His texts offer pleasure - the pleasure of the text and the pleasure of reading. The encounter with Bauman's mind causes his readers and auditors to think, to re-examine themselves and their world, and to see the familiar in a new light.

Société Anonyme is ongoing exhibition organised by three curators François Piron, Thomas Boutoux and Natasa Petresin... What is Société Anonyme?