Author: Kevin Ryan

New book by Two Fuse: ‘Freedom?’ (Cork University Press)

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Freedom? by Two Fuse (Cork University Press, 2018) In this contribution to the Síreacht series, the collaborative platform Two Fuse (Kevin Ryan, NUIG & Fiona Whelan, NCAD) examine the practice of freedom in the context of neoliberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain social suffering by generating an equality of inequality. Responding to this situation, Two Fuse look to socially-engaged art with a view to exploring possibilities to reimagine the practice of freedom, paying particular attention to the 2016 performance Natural History of Hope by Fiona Whelan, Rialto Youth Project and Brokentalkers.…

RC36 Interim Meeting, Helsinki 2015

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RC36 Interim conference, University of Helsinki Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th October 2015 For its 2015 Interim Meeting, RC36 met for two days at the University of Helsinki to explore ‘The Gestalts of Power’. Papers were organised into four thematic panels – ‘The language of power or the power of language’; ‘The history of power or the power of history’; The power of globalization or the globalization of power’; and ‘The power of governmentality or the governmentality of power’. Papers were presented by: Erkki Berndtson, Philip Cerny, Mark Haugaard, Anu Kantola, Valeri Ledyaev, Nanna Mik-Meyer, Louwrens Pretorius, Kevin Ryan, Alina…