Julian Myers
@fiercechild.bsky.social
editor / art historian / 1/2 of grupa o.k.
The erasure of Occupy from public memory (none of my students have heard of it!) was one of the motivations for this Writing Art History After Occupy roundtable. direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
Writing Art History After Occupy*
Abstract. This conversation explores the impact of Occupy Wall Street on the practice of art history. The authors of three recent books—on the new media art of Arte Programmata, the administrative aut...
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It's by Julian Myers, faculty at CCA for 18 years
“THE UNIVERSITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT HAS GIVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY, MORE FREEDOM, MORE HOPE TO MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM YET DEVISED.”
The real conditions of "all men are created equal" realitybreakdown.substack.com/p/exterminat...
EXTERMINATING THUNDER
Thomas Jefferson, 200 Years Later
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Who will pity the poor software company account managers? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/t...
In San Francisco, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
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In the new issue of October, I write about the demise of California College of the Arts, real estate speculation, and the unraveling of San Francisco direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
On San Francisco: Fake Estates*
Abstract. A contribution to October's series Arts Communities at Risk, “Fake Estates” explores the systemic collapse of intersecting art worlds in the San Francisco Bay Area in the wake of the announc...
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The nuttiest thing about the report is that it attacks as one thing rampant postmodernist relativism and neo-maoist ideological purity tests. But these tendencies, were they real, would exclude one another. They're warning against a chimera
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's so insidious about this is that it's cloaked in the language of reestablishing academic rigor and standards even as they do not feel beholden to these things. Is their report peer-reviewed? No. Is it rigorously factual? Also no. Are its methods clear and accessible? Haha. No.
