Gene Ray is a critic and theorist living in Berlin. His essays about issues at the intersections of art and radical politics have appeared in Third Text, Left Curve, and Analyse & Kritik. His most recent book is Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). The editor of Joseph Beuys: Mapping the Legacy (DAP, 2001) and a contributor to Territories: Islands, Camps and Other States of Utopia (KW, 2003), he has taught critical art theory at New College of Florida and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. More recent texts are online at: http://transform.eipcp.net/bio/ray
Ray, Gene
Aktuelle Beiträge der Autorin / des Autors
Antinomies of Autonomism
On Art, Instrumentality and Radical Struggle
The revolutionary organization has had to learn that it can no longer combat alienation by means of alienated forms of struggle.
(Debord, Society of the Spectacle)1
Hits: From Trauma and the Sublime to Radical Critique
I welcome the thematic conjunction of this conference.1 I certainly count myself among those who see the link between trauma and the sublime as inescapable - so much so that I can only think of it a
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'The Central Fire'
History and the Predicament of Critique
"Is it all the fault of the system? Systems are such heavy chains that they exonerate the infinitesimal individual, the thinking reed, the trampled reed.
On the Targeting of Activists in the War on Terror
What no presidential candidate is talking about - but what activists need to know about a dangerous long-term tendency in US policy.
History, Sublime, Terror:
Notes on the Politics of Fear
Six years into a so-called war against terrorism it seems timely enough to ask whether the category of the sublime is relevant to our political understanding of the world we live in today.
Mourning and Cosmopolitics
Joseph Beuys in Context
The German artist and the global predicaments of art after 1945.
Für eine Kritische Kunst-Theorie
Kritische Theorie weist die gegebene Welt zurück und blickt darüber hinaus. Auch in der Reflektion über Kunst müssen wir zwischen einer affirmativen und einer kritischen Theorie unterscheiden.
Critical Theory and Critical Art Theory
We thought we had a critical art theory, but do we?
Revolution in the Post-Fordist Revolution?
Notes on the Internet as a Weapon of the Multitude
Is the Internet emerging as a viable site for what Paolo Virno calls a "non-servile republic," a radical public sphere largely beyond the control of "administration"?
Avant-Gardes as Anti-Capitalist Vector
The avant-garde tradition as a renewable vector of breakout from the art institutions and cultural fuel for social movements and struggles.