With: François Cusset
Framework: Simon Fujiwara. A Whole New World< /p>
Language: EN
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Challenging the eye-pleasing aesthetics of the exhibition \;AWhole New World \;by bri nging to the surface its much darker meanings\, this tour will reveal the underbelly of pop culture\, consumer society\, new media and entertainment and how it has shaped the way we perceive our world.
.Commodi fication has taken over every aspect of contemporary life\, an inescapable condition that Fujiwara’s exhibition compels us to confront head-on. Th is tour will introduce participants to philosophical concepts that can hel p make sense of our deranged world\, as well as process its intersection o f leisure\, commerce and control. Beyond the \;theme-parkification \;of the museum\, participants will be invited to reflect critic ally on the many contradictions that Fujiwara brought to the surface in&nb sp\;A Whole New World.
In this Regards Croisés guided tour \, intellectual historian François Cusset will examine Fujiwara’s work with concepts from post structuralism\, the so-called French Theory and cu ltural studies.
Authors such as Foucault\, Lacan\, Baudrillard and m ore will be referenced in Cusset’s analysis\, enabling participants to e xperience the exhibition through a different lens.
François Cusset \;(1969\, Paris) is a writer and intellectual historian who lives in Paris. A professor of intellectual history and American studies at University of Paris Nanterre\, he also gives seminars at Sciences-Po Paris\, in various Swiss and Belgian art schools\, as well as graduate schools in the US. He started his professional life in New York City (1991-2000) holding succes sive positions as a journalist\, cultural attaché\, and literary agent. T he author of twelve acclaimed works of nonfiction\, from political pamphle ts to global intellectual history\, he has also authored three novels and an experimental narrative on the 2020 Covid lockdown. Among his books tran slated from the French: \;French Theory: How Foucault\, Derrida\, Deleuze &\; Co. transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States< /em> \;(University of Minnesota Press\, 2008)\, \;The Inverted Gaze: Queering French Literature in America \;(Arsenal Pulp\, 20 11)\, \;How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterre volutions(Semiotext(e)/MIT Press\, 2018)\, and \;The World Un leashed: New Logics of Violence \;(n-1 edições\, 2025). He is c urrently working on a book about machofascism and the future of masculinit y\, forthcoming in 2027.
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