Browsing Archive May, 2017
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Editorial Note 1
Introduction to Issue #8
1972, the year he gave hanlf the money from his Booker Prize to the Black Panthers and smashed the conventions both of television and of art history forever ...
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A Tax on Shivering
If one of the functions of writing is to make the reader see, and see again, here is a brief list of what John Berger made visible. Paintings, photographs, ...
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John Berger, Enemy of Neoliberal Capitalism
By JONATHAN CRARY I’m going to begin with an observation that I believe would have been of particular interest for the person whose work brings us together today. ...
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Berger as Storyteller
By ANNIE WYMAN What was storytelling for John Berger? In some ways, it was just exactly what you or I might guess it to be: plots, characters, ordered ...
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On John Berger’s Radical Art Criticism
By RATIK ASOKAN Robert Lowell once expressed his desire to be: Like Mallarmé who had the good fortune to find a style that made writing impossible It’s a ...
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Ways of Seeing Everything
By JANE GAINES “Every image,” John Berger wrote, “embodies a way of seeing.”[1] Because of this embodiment the historian who comes later can study the way in which ...
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John Berger as a Theorist for Politics
By BARNABY RAINE On the little island where I was born, where we lack the cultural wealth of cable news – of CNN and Fox – our ...
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The Left and Liberalism: A Conversation with James Livingston
By ANDREW HARTMAN and JAMES LIVINGSTON The following exchange originated on Facebook, where Andrew Hartman noticed that James Livingston was getting agitated enough about the Left’s animus toward ...
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Under the Midmorning Sun
By IBRAHIM NASRALLAH Excerpted from Under the Midmorning Sun*, translated from Arabic, and with an introduction by Nora Parr. In the West Bank city of Ramallah the first blasts ...
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Podemos and the Demons of the Spanish Left
By JOHN McCLURE The Spanish Civil War haunts the Spanish left. It is a source of pride: a legend of heroic popular resistance to the massing forces of ...
