There are signs that art critique is trying to reconnect with the critique of reality. Not only does it put the current art production into a broader historical context, it relates its main features and trends to concrete political decisions and historical events. This new sense for historicity...

Germano Celant has referred to the desire for the unlimited fabrication and widespread distribution of art objects as a “small utopia,” positing it as “a dream that punctuated the twentieth century across myriad historical and aesthetic contexts and moments.” But as much as reproduction offered a...

Ever since records began, in every known society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported unusual experiences many of which we would today label as “paranormal”. Opinion polls show that the majority of the general public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread...