Boris Groys: 12 books

In einer Zeit, in der der Austausch mit der Welt meist über das Internet erfolgt, wird dieser vorwiegend durch Vorgaben und Formate der Suchmaschine Google reguliert, die für den Philosophen und Medientheoretiker Boris Groys damit die traditionelle Rolle der Philosophie und Religion eingenommen...

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion of works of art as sacred objects was decried and subsequently they would be understood merely...

The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture...

Nesta edição de Peixe-elétrico: Dossiê Terror Três ensaios abrem a Peixe-elétrico #04 formando um complexo mosaico sobre um tema central deste início de século XXI: o terrorismo. Radicado na França, especialista na obra de Guy Debord, GABRIEL FERREIRA ZACARIAS aborda o chamado terrorismo...

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’...

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of arts complex relationship to power.

Features a strong line-up of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians. Featuring: pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualism movement Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Bart De Baere, Russia’s foremost curator; art critic and theorist Boris Groys;...

Leading international artists and art educators consider the challenges of art education in today's dramatically changed art world. The last explosive change in art education came nearly a century ago, when the German Bauhaus was formed. Today, dramatic changes in the art world—its increasing...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable from the worthless, culture...

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds...

"In welcher Weise vermag Kunst die Welt, in der wir leben, zu beeinflussen?" Boris Groys beschäftigt sich mit der klassischen Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Kunst und Wahrheit vor dem empirischen Hintergrund der (Selbst-)Vermarktung der Kunst im Internet, das mit seinen technischen Möglichkeiten selbst für eine ganz andere Wahrheit über die Kunst sorgt.

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...