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@sean_obee and I have edited a special issue of @web_clc called “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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I wrote an essay about the Brazilian avant-garde for an online issue of @MModernity on “peripheral modernisms”
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‘What is to be gained, or lost, in moving back and forth between the critique of political economy and theories of aesthetics and cultural production? Is the “form” in “value form” the same as the “form” in “artistic form”?’
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An explainer video on Ana Mendieta for The BREAK–DOWN
Who was Ana Mendieta, the artist who's ecological politics are currently on exhibit at the Tate Modern?
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The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Series, including over 200 artworks made between 1973 and 1980, was a trailblazing experiment in postcolonial ecology and feminist performance art.
Written and read by Thomas Waller
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I wrote about Ana Mendieta and the current retrospective at @Tate for @break_downradio
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For the July/August issue of @TheBrooklynRail, I reviewed a new book about the Brazilian artist Antonio Dias.
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Hi! @thomasowaller and I are delighted to announce the publication of "Keywords for Value and Culture," a mammoth special issue of @web_clc. You can find the entirety of its contents available open access below: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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woah, check out this badass collection of essays, "Keywords for Value and Culture," edited by @thomasowaller and @sean_obee
docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/v…
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For @e_flux, I wrote about Henrike Kohpeiß’s new book Bourgeois Coldness
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I wrote about the recent Lygia Clark retrospective at Neue Nationalgalerie for @LAReviewofBooks
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To mark the 30th anniversary of Gillian Rose's death, I wrote an essay for @Parapraxis_Mag on Rose's philosophy of death, Nietzsche's "proud death", and Rose's conversion to Christianity.
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Mondrian’s Firebomb: Avant-Garde and Underdevelopment in Brazil, with Thomas Waller (@thomasowaller)
Friday 12th December, 2025
5.30-7.30pm
@UCL_IAS Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT
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About to go on @LacanInScotland for a talk on Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism with @thomasowaller. Feel free to join and share your thoughts, too.
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Very happy to hear that my essay on Freud and mourning is a joint winner of the 2023-2024 Paragraph prize.
The piece is available to read for free via the link below:
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Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism, edited by myself and @maybenansi, is out now with Bloomsbury! bloomsbury.com/uk/understand…
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I reviewed the latest translation of Brazilian architect Sérgio Ferro's writings for this month's @TheBrooklynRail @MACK_books
brooklynrail.org/2025/10/art…
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