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        Nikos Papastergiadis

        art theorist, Melbourne

      1. Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor for Cultural Studies and Media & Communications, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. He often researches contemporary sociopolitical realities in relation to changes in art spectatorship. Recent publications include: Cosmopolitanism and Culture (2012); Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place, and the Everyday (2006); and Metaphor and Tension: on Collaboration and its Discontents (2004). Papastergiadis lives and works in Melbourne. [Last updated 2013]

        1. 2013

            1. Documents, Constellations, Prospects
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            From Permanent Red to Into Cosmos: John Berger’s Art Criticism
            Nikos Papastergiadis
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            Insurgent Cosmopolitanism
            Ranjit Hoskote
            The structure of modern democracy has long been centered on a crucial relationship of delegation and representation that binds the state and the citizenry. By a fundamental political contract, the citizenry delegate a considerable proportion of their decision-making powers to the state apparatus in exchange for representation by the state. Yet we know from examples ranging from unpopular …
            1. Documents, Constellations, Prospects
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            Keynote Lecture Insurgent Cosmopolitanism
            Ranjit Hoskote
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            FORMER WEST: Notes from Berlin
            31 August–9 October 2013
            BAK, basis voor actuele kunst
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