Naomi Klein uses her frequent confusion with ‘doppelganger’ Naomi Wolf to spark an exploration of doubles, mirror-worlds, and the gulf between left and right.
This lecture was delivered by Max Boddy, assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia), to the SEP (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023.
IF YOU HAVE EVER taken the stairs at what used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist masterpiece on New York’s Upper East Side you have almost certainly encountered the work of Charles Simonds, though you may not have realized it. One of only two pieces in the Whitney’s collection that did not head downtown when the institution moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015 (the other being Nicole Eisenman’s Exploding Whitney Mural, 1995), Simonds’s permanent installation huddles unobtrusively above the stairwell’s only window. It is a miniature village, an apparently
‘Whether we’re locked down or not, it’s clear that, even in our bedrooms, space is annihilated by time.’ Marie Darrieussecq on sleeplessness, translated by Penny Hueston.