For every teacher/student: This is Rainer Maria Rilke's letters to a young poet written from 1903-08.

http://www.carrothers.com/rilke_main.htm

"Letters To A Young Poet are ten letters written to a young man about to enter the German military. His name was Franz Kappus, he was 19 years old, and he wrote Rilke looking for guidance and a critique of some of his poems. Rilke was himself only 27 when the first letter was written. The resulting five year correspondence is a virtual owner's manual on what it is (and what is required) to be an artist and a person."

Stevie Schmiedel writes: There seem to be two “camps,” two ways of reading Gilles Deleuze’s and Félix Guattari’s concept of “becoming-woman” as described in their Thousand Plateaus. My own reading of Deleuze and Guattari’s work confirms an anti-psychoanalytic and anti-dialectical understanding that turns against the psychoanalytic feminism presented by Luce Irigaray, and even against Judith Butler’s Foucauldian re-reading of Lacan with which she defines a political practice of parodic performances.

Berlin has in recent years become a particular focal point for contemporary Chinese art. The journalist and writer Annett Busch has talked to some of the major galleries and art critics to find out why, and uncovered interesting trends in a fast changing scene.

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 the updated schedule for session 4.1 in week 38...

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?

At KIT theory we prefer not to reproduce the popular binaries between theory and praxis. Instead we want to promote, experiment and play with ever changing notions of a theoretical praxis by practicising theories.

In principal we understand art theory as the art of seeing art. It is not a fixed body of knowledge, a compilation of historical facts or philosphical history. Theory is nothing fixed and stable, it is fluid, it flows like water and therefore needs to be revisited and reinvented over and over again.