Plastic Words - Revisiting Isidore Isou's Meca-Aesthetics

13/02/2015 2h 3min

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Episode Synopsis

Seminar and open discussion about Letterism and its discontents with Iain Boal, Eric Fabre, Catherine Goldstein and Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row -
a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.

Iain Boal is a social historian, co-founder of the Retort Collective and founding member of MayDay Rooms, London.

Eric Fabre is a Brussels-based collector, whose gallery, Garage Cosmos, frequently holds exhibitions featuring work from his collection.

Catherine Goldstein is Director of Research, History of Mathematics, at the CNRS, Paris.

Donald Nicholson-Smith joined the English section of the Situationist International in 1965 and
was expelled in 1967. He was a member of King Mob, and is a preeminent translator of Situationist writings.

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