Discussion
October 10, 2014, 7pm
This event serves as a prelude to the publishing of Cartographies of the Absolute, and continues the address of art’s figuring of capitalist ideology that formed a central concern within the recent Artists Space exhibition Living with Pop. A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism. Toscano and Kinkle will present key sections of the book, and then discuss its concerns with artist Melanie Gilligan, whose episodic films have sought to address a capitalist imaginary through familiar modes of televisual and cinematic representation.
![A blue and white book cover depicting a stylized map of Detroit radiating out from the center "slums," to an encircling zone of "middle class," out to "affluent suburbs." Several arrows point out in each direction of the semicircle, beginning in the "slums" and headed outwards, labeled as "police payoffs," "job discrimination," "mortgage money," and more.](https://artistsspace.org/media/pages/programs/cartographies-of-the-absolute/182698829-1623173150/81ukawtzkil-1280x.jpg)