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        1. Research Library

        Thinking Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art

        Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein

        New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press 2008

        ISBN 9781933128351

      2. Texts from symposium proceedings connected to the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art explore the contemporary art ‘event’ as a phenomenon and consider the status of philosophy and theory vis-à-vis today’s art discourses and production. See in particular contributions by FORMER WEST researcher Boris Groys, Valery Podoroga Politics of Philosophy, Mikhail Ryklin Art in the Turbulence Zone, and Giorgio Agamben Art, Inactivity, Politics.

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