public sphere

We are committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice. The notion of a rehearsal—being in a kind of workshop, playing in a band, in a jam session, or old men... See more

to have a barbecue or a dance—all forms of unrestricted sociality that they slyly call “study.”

“Fugitivity, then, is a desire for and a spirit of escape and transgression of the proper and the proposed. It’s a desire for the outside, for a playing or being outside, an outlaw edge proper to the now always already improper voice or instrument.”

The modern United States is a society of social amnesia, of denial of difference, of escape from facing reality. It’s in a public space that this social amnesia might be called to account, which means that the public realm should be gritty and disturbing rather than pleasant.”