Who Can Afford To Be Critical? do you read me?! Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot

a person that lives and work from home would go under ‘Home Office’ while someone who chose to live in the suburban area that prefers freedom over convenience would be categorized as ‘Rural Life’

With a pure aesthetic that reveals a mastery of form

‘Ethics’ edited by Walead Beshty is part of the acclaimed ‘Documents of Contemporary Art‘ series of anthologies

Who Can Afford To Be Critical? do you read me?! Maurice BlanchotCritical Designers produced by an increasing number of design schools are prompted to address social, political and environmental issues through their practices. Yet, who can afford to continue such effort after graduation? In a dynamic style holding multiple voices, Who Can Afford To Be Critical? discusses the limits that affordability, class and labour impose upon the educational promise of holding a critical practice. Why do we tend to ignore the