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The animal of disciplinary society is the mole, moving through predetermined spaces, settings and institutions of confinement. The snake is the animal of neoliberal control society, to which disciplinary society has yielded. The rigidity of disciplinary confinement is no longer suited to post-industrial, immaterial and networked forms of production. In contrast to the mole, the snake makes space by means of its own movement. The mole is the labourer; the snake is the entrepreneur.
Public Gallery is pleased to present The mole and the snake, a trio exhibition of works by Faysal Altunbozar, Alex Hutton, and Russell Perkins. Taking reference from Byung-Chul Han’s essay Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power, this exhibition considers how everyday objects structure our desires, how systems of power and control impose on individual subjectivities, and how these systems can be rendered visible through popular culture, emphasizing gami…
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The animal of disciplinary society is the mole, moving through predetermined spaces, settings and institutions of confinement. The snake is the animal of neoliberal control society, to which disciplinary society has yielded. The rigidity of disciplinary confinement is no longer suited to post-industrial, immaterial and networked forms of production. In contrast to the mole, the snake makes space by means of its own movement. The mole is the labourer; the snake is the entrepreneur.
Public Gallery is pleased to present The mole and the snake, a trio exhibition of works by Faysal Altunbozar, Alex Hutton, and Russell Perkins. Taking reference from Byung-Chul Han’s essay Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power, this exhibition considers how everyday objects structure our desires, how systems of power and control impose on individual subjectivities, and how these systems can be rendered visible through popular culture, emphasizing gami…
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