Lecture. Anna Kornbluh (Professor of English, U. of Illinois at Chicago). The Order of Forms: Photography, Ideology and Social Space.

Formalism’s constitutive fascination with composed arrangements has been neither received nor elaborated as a political ethos of composition, making, building.  Taking up the surprising tropes of architecture in nineteenth century projects co-emergent with formalism - namely, Marxian anthropology and early photography - this talk advocates for the arts of social building.