The ‘state of exception’ is a tool of power and turns out to be always more than the dominant paradigm of ruling.
Following the attacks in New York and Madrid his book State of Exception makes it possible to envisage a political understanding of how forms of government that suspend the law can be permanently institutionalized.
Europe’s great cities are being transformed into high-security experiments in survival.
A good artist book is like a good conversation or a good night out–full of unexpected meanderings. The Rijksakademie decided to give it a go with the Documents series.
The traditional function of the book is disappearing. Now that many more books are being bought than are being read, it is time to recognize that there is more to books than the transfer of knowledge and insight. What then are the new meanings of books?
