5 documents
# 83
Human Animal Song
Marion von Osten
cultured graded fondled
divided exhibited bred
appraised described hunted
killed pampered trained
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 13, 2017
Subjects
Poetry
# 17
Editorial—“In Search of the Postcapitalist Self”
Marion von Osten
A number of alternate, informal approaches to art and economy that arose in the Berlin of the 90s created a great deal of space and potential for rethinking relations between people, as well as possible roles for art in society. Today, however, much of this hope has since been obscured by the commercial activity and dysfunctional official art institutions most visible in the city’s art scene, and though many of the ways of living and working that were formulated in the 90s are still in…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2010
Subjects
Editorial
# 17
What Shall We Do…?
Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillman
What follows is a multigenerational conversation between the philosopher Fahim Amir, the artist Eva Egermann, and the artists and curators Peter Spillmann and Marion von Osten, about the varieties of antagonism currently shaping the production of knowledge.
Scarcity and Integration
Marion von Osten: I would like to begin our conversation with a hypothesis: the production of knowledge has entered a phase defined by certain tensions, leading to a variety of conflicts we…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2010
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Education, Management & Bureaucracy, Economy
Subjects
Academia, State & Government
# 08
Irene ist Viele! Or What We Call “Productive” Forces
Marion von Osten
Irene ist Viele! 1
An extensive 2004 study undertaken by the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics (BFS) found that, in one of the world’s wealthiest countries, of nearly fifteen billion annual work hours, eight billion went unpaid. Two-thirds of that free labor was performed by women, while women in the wage-labor sector were paid on average 18 percent less than men. 2 The study shows that the “invisible hand of the market,” with its celebrated promise of economic equality, fails…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Economy, Labor & Work, Film, Feminism
Subjects
Money & Finance, Wealth & Inequality, Europe, Neoliberalism
# 06
Architecture Without Architects—Another Anarchist Approach
Marion von Osten
The title of this text is a hybrid of two existing titles. “Architecture without Architects” was the name of an influential exhibition by the architect Bernard Rudofsky at the MoMA in 1964; “Housing: An Anarchist Approach” was the name of a famous book by the English architect and anarchist Colin Ward in which the author proclaims the rights and productivity of self-built housing and squatting in postwar Europe. Whereas the latter’s collection of essays discussed specific cases of European…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2009
Category
Architecture, Urbanism, Modernism, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate