Culture

Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has since slipped her collar to appear in this short story by Katrina Palmer satirising the apparently limitless masochism of the contemporary artist

October

According to the art critic and theorist Boris Groys, philosophy may have met its match in a counter-tradition of modern ‘antiphilosophy.’ Introduction to Antiphilosophy marshals such thinkers as Benjamin, Nietzsche and Derrida in an attempt to antagonise standard philosophical practice. Eleven essays explore separate figures in turn, with the project’s rationale made explicit in an extended preface and prologue.

With art schools' integration into the university system, artists are required to present their work as written ‘exegesis’. Here, Danny Butt traces exegesis back to its origins as a form of knowledge production and considers its limiting effect on art’s own power of revelation