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Norton Lecture 5: On Being Minor | March 20, 2024
What does it imply to be a “minor” author? From a minority, from a small nation, from the conquered, from the displaced, from areas which are inevitably politicized or forgotten or missed? Artwork and politics explicitly overlap for the author who’s pressured to be minor or who chooses to be minor, and whose aesthetic methods and archives can and have to be eclectic.
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