Tag: Michel

It’s Black History Month in North America, so we’re reflecting on the momentous obstacles faced by a community whose struggles persist today. Defying convention, figures like Basquiat rewrote the narrative of not only what it meant to be a professional visual artist, but also a...

New here? I recommend you learn about the Cool Continuum first. You can also buy the book to access 60+ artist profiles and the practical guide. Jean-Michel Basquiat. A name you see in art circles, a face framed by untamed hair that sears itself into memory. Yet, Basquiat and ...

The global left? “It has undergone a monstrous mutation.” Anti-Semitism in France? “There are things beyond my comprehension that frighten and disgust me.” And the October 7 attack? “Hamas (*GRAPHIC CONTENT) must be punished severely enough to convin...

Michel Serres is an outsider. Despite the commercial success of some of his books and, later in life, a prominent presence in the mass media, Serres never really established a significant following (unlike contemporaneous French thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida, for instance). A num...

Michel Foucault’s idea of power can be applied to the concept of race in terms of the various societal discourses that have circulated throughout western society. His conception of racism as inherently a form of bio-political government is the first of its kind, and deserves appreciation becau...