This week: I am finishing my reading of Terry Smith's The Provincialism Problem, and working through Craig Owens's The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism, and a few things here and there for the Sunday reading group.
Last week it was two articles from Architecture Review's series The Big Rethink. The best of it was this one. Buchanan does a nice job of introducing a series of difficult discussions and ultimately moving through them to an alternative position. Of course he does, that's what writers do. They process and move on.
So, the first of the two articles I am reading is for pleasure, purely. Published in ARTFORUM in the Seventies, The Provincialism Problem dissects local trends in an effort to equalize. Oddly the latter article of previous mention, is involved with the discussion of creating a politics and society of 'others.' There is overlap in a very specific area of postmodernism there, the position of the other. Of course I am only halfway through each. So I am going to finish them both.