Visiting Lecture | Nick Axel: Discourse and the Contemporary

Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 12 - 2pm

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Wang Yaping demonstrates the behavior of a ball of water in space during a lecture broadcast to students on Earth in 2013. Photo: SCMP Pictures.

Wang Yaping demonstrates the behavior of a ball of water in space during a lecture broadcast to students on Earth in 2013. Photo: SCMP Pictures.

Nick Axel is Deputy Editor of e-flux Architecture and Head of the Architectural Design department at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He is editor of the books Superhumanity: Design of the Self (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity (Actar, 2018), Work, Body, Leisure (Hatje Cantz, 2018), Dimensions of Citizenship (Inventory Press, 2018), and Permanent Temporariness (Art and Theory, 2018), as well as the forthcoming Human(s) Work (Taschen, 2020) and The New Normal (Strelka Press, 2020).

This event is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff. Room 315F.

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