Using visual and textual media of physical, digital, found and fabricated states, his work explores possibilities of an artistic practice that intersects with
anarchist ideas of social and political praxis, engaging tensions between autonomy and authority while examining thematics of fiction, imagination, precarity, anxiety, urgency, and counterhegemony.
Yet the 1960s student and cultural revolutions saw a spectacular re-emergence of
anarchist ideas and principles, and its influence today can be felt in movements as diverse as the Zapatistas in Mexico and Occupy Wall Street.
Obrist and Boltanski took inspiration from a host of histories and ideologies related to possession, from
the anarchist idea that «ownership is theft» to the post-1960s dematerialization of the object in conceptual art.
This is, after all, an outright
anarchist idea: Abolishing all the public protections that have made the nation a safer and fairer place to live.
Not exact matches
We will glorify war — the only true hygiene of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the
anarchist, the beautiful
ideas which kill.»
And maybe I'm an
anarchist, but I'm very much into the
idea of Melky Cabrera being the reason the Giants edge into the luxury tax after spending all season climbing on the couches and pretending the luxury tax is hot lava.
However, even in the most
anarchist of systems, you will always get that some people are more successful in convincing others to support them or their
ideas, than others.
Classical
anarchists like Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin more or less explicitly developed this
idea of freedom in their own work.
It is at this radical end of the republican spectrum that its
ideas come to resemble more and more the kind of decentralized society and economy based on mutual aid that
anarchists have historically proposed.
Indeed there is something to be said for the
idea that
anarchists might be republicans who take republican principles far more seriously.
The film most like it from that year is David Fincher's Fight Club, in that both aspire to be plangent black satires but ultimately end on flaccid off - notes: the one with the
idea of an organized posse of
anarchists destroying our financial infrastructure, the other with a homophobic Republican gunning down gay Best Actor winner Kevin Spacey in his last role as accidental Christ before he took on the crown and sandals permanently and on purpose.
That Kyle is attached to a thoroughly dog - eared copy most of the film is a perfect way to illustrate his contradictory existence: He is a privileged suburban «
anarchist» clutching to
ideas from a book that he was likely assigned at a very expensive Catholic school.
It was originally a journal begun in 1977 by a poet,
anarchist, and artist in Chicago who had the
idea to create a publication related to conceptual artist books, so instead of articles and essays it would have text pieces by artists and publishing projects.
His closest ally, Tiravanija, calls him «a punk
anarchist» for whom a gallery is a kind of tool to make things happen and work out his
ideas.