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Nº 5. Inaugurating its new volume of publications, THE-ICONOMIST presents an unusual thematic dossier built around the verbs “To watch” and “To speculate”. Inspired by excerpts from Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison” and William Shakespeare’s poem “All The World’s A Stage”, we explore the complex issues of surveillance in … the-iconomist-issue-5-the-world-is-a-stage-2024
Through this volume, we address crucial themes such as privacy and power, violence and social behavior, technology and ethics. In addition, we have enriched our analysis with selected texts by renowned authors such as Octavia Butler, Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, Thomas Elsaesser, Anne Carson, Guy Debord, Marshall McLuhan and Barbara Kruger, among others. This new … the-iconomist-n5-the-world-as-a-stage-spreads
“PROPOSALS FOR A POST-PORTRAIT”, 2022-2023seventy-nine digital images, 1024x1024px eachpart of the “ARTIFICIAL” collection
What is THE-ICONOMIST? I imagine it as a cross between the imaginary museum proposed by André Malraux and Aby Warburg’s mnemosyne atlas adapted to a post-digital context dominated by artificial intelligence services. Just as over a hundred years ago the ready-made drew attention to the exchange value of the work of art, the artist-ready-made also … about