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Susan Best is professor of art history and theory at Queensland College of Art and Design, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.


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Visualizing Feeling: Affect...

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I'm coming to this very late, it was the Mushroom Diaries that prompted me to read this book by Krasnostein writing on her own. This is such an interesting biography of a trans woman and how she overcomes a terrible past. The title refers to her fina ...more
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"This book seems to have something important to say - that colonial museums and monuments continue to reinforce racist stereotypes and support systems of oppression. However, the book is so confusing and wildly convoluted that it never really gets to " Read more of this review »
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There are a number of books criticising identity politics now, perhaps the strongest are Susan Neiman's Left is Not Woke (2023), and Umut Ozkirimli's Cancelled: The Left way back from Woke (2023). Others include Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Lies that B ...more
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An interesting investigation of the role of feminism in contemporary art, it may not be evident from the title but the focus is largely artists in the UK and the US. The idea of the fan of feminist history to by-pass the antagonism of generations or ...more
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