The first ec/bc (extracurricular bookclub) took place today.
ec/bc began last year as a place to workshop ideas, not objects. The group has met regularly, usually once a month, to discuss various articles, and lately, podcasts on topics that we are interested in.
Today, we discussed Sven Lutticken’s Attending to Abstract Things, a theory of an abstract and dematerialized culture. Drawing a line between economic and cultural trends and art movements. A very interesting article. It got us talking about a whole variety of things – marxism, art as the ultimate commodity, the experience economy, historical and biological determinism, pooping in parking lots and too much empathy.
It’s good to be back in ec/bc.