[ecrea] New issue of PUBLIC Journal, 48: The End

New issue of PUBLIC Journal: Art Culture Ideas

48: The End
Edited by Christine Davis and Scott MacKenzie
www.publicjournal.ca/48-the-end <http://www.publicjournal.ca/48-the-end>

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PUBLIC 48: The End brings together an international array of scholars 
and artists to examine the current political and cultural fascination 
with material and symbolic representations of "The End." From the end of 
Communism to the end of higher education, the end of the environment to 
the end of life, our writers and artists examine what is currently 
ending, and what popular, philosophical and political discourse claims 
to be at an end. This issue foregrounds not only the contemporary 
political and environmental disasters that are taking place around us, 
but also offers entry points to engage with these postulated ends, 
allowing one to imagine a future that is not an endpoint. To do so, one 
must firmly place oneself in the present, without naïve nostalgia for 
the past, or abject resignation about the future. For there to be a 
future, our contributors, in different ways and from different 
philosophical, critical and artistic points of view, argue for a 
citizenship fully engaged in the present. The issue also includes Slavoj 
Z(iz(ek's keynote address from the Until the End of The World Symposium, 
held at Toronto's City Hall Council Chambers during Nuit Blanche in 
September 2012.

CONTENTS
The End of the World (As We Know It), Slavoj Z(iz(ek
Betrayal: The Thanatocracy (1974), Michel Serres
Silence Wager Stories (1993), Susan Howe
The End of the Humanities, Toby Miller
All That's Frozen Melts Into Air: Arctic Cinemas at the End of the 
World, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport
A Beautiful Movie About The End of the World: Director's Statement, Lars 
von Trier
Offshore: Extreme Oil and the Disappearing Future, Brenda Longfellow
Communism and the End of the World, Matthew Flisfeder
Algorithms for the Extinction Event, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker
Separation, Death, The Thing, Freud, Lacan, and the Missed Encounter, 
Catherine Malabou
Selected Songs for the End of the World, Alan Zweig

PORTFOLIOS
Colour, Christine Davis and Scott Lyall
The End, Vlad Lunin

COLUMN
Ian Balfour, This is the End--Not: Or, Enough with the Messiah Already

REVIEWS
Jill Glessing, Ori Gersht: History Repeating, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Friederike Schäfer, Venezia To Be or Not: The 2013 Venice Biennale
Christine Korte, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of 
Spectatorship by Claire Bishop
Anne K. Yoder, What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation 
by Tom Finkelpearl
Michael DiRisio, Living As Form edited by Nato Thompson

180 pages, illustrated
40-page sneak peek: 
http://issuu.com/publicjournal/docs/public48_theend_onlinesample


ABOUT
PUBLIC is a bi-annual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary art journal based 
in Toronto published by the Public Access Collective, a charitable 
not-for-profit organization. It is committed to existing as an 
intellectual and creative forum, providing a space for in-depth 
perspectives on the theoretical and critical issues that intersect with 
art and visual culture.

Aleksandra Kaminska
Managing Editor
PUBLIC Journal: Art Culture Ideas
Toronto, ON

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