Author: Boris Groys

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account...

An insider''s account of the art and artists of the most interesting Russian artistic phenomenon since the Russian Avant-Garde. In the 1970s and...

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its ...

Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. Thi...

Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As...

In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit, as works of art as sacred obj...

The contemporary world, argues Boris Groys, was made possible by the downfall of historical communism. At the same time, today''s political and aes...