the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar

Video

Hal Foster

How to Survive Civilization or: What We Can Still Learn from Dada

This lecture took place on April 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pm in the Wollman Auditorium at the Cooper Union

Lecture introduction

This lecture concerns a different position within Modernist practice, neither vanguard nor resistant, which proceeds by way of a mimetic exacerbation of the worst conditions in contemporary society.

About Hal Foster

Hal Foster joined the faculty of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton in 1997, and is currently its chair. He teaches lecture and seminar courses in modernist and contemporary art and criticism as well as regularly teaching in the programs of Media and Modernity and European Cultural Studies. His most recent books are Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes) from Verso (2002); Prosthetic Gods (Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2004), and he is presently at work on a collection of essays on Pop art. He continues to write regularly for the October, Artforum, and the London Review of Books.

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