Notes
On each occasion three speakers will present a topic lasting for a strict
fifteen minutes exempt from any idea of 'expertise'
in the academic, scientific or critical
sense. The monstration [as
in the mode of early cinema] is performed
in the company of images, or by intrusion
of an unfamiliar device, anything at
hand as useful [or useless]
as 'aide-de-memoire'.
Arguably "International Everything"
is a revelation, about the purchase
of prescribed knowledge and interpretation.
About 'passion', 'pitch'
even. However these are not ironic investments
as such, also being of no value in the
imperial sense of vetted [dis]approval
that an academy and its community [of
bureaucrats] demands.
Something of the universalist "as a host
of errors and phantasms" [from
Michel Foucault] is articulated in its
delivery that constitutes at once a subject,
[perfectly situated in just fifteen minutes]
before slipping its immediate audience unawares into the profusion of
entangled events culled from popular and random accounts of history.
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