Trust: Building on Cultural CommonsHow can we break through a culture of mistrust? Suspicion regarding our fellow beings, the authorities and enterprises is growing, blamed on passing the buck and feelings of impotence. We seek remedies in regulations, contracts and procedures, assurances, audits and consultancy. As well as in good governance and transparency. But do they actually make for real trust? Is trust not always somewhat blind? Trust: Building on Cultural Commons highlights

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A precocious scholar and improvisor

using graphic sex

cartoonist of one of the New York Times Best Comics of 2021

monk seals know better than to reveal themselves to humans

and being non-binary

Brown revisits Detroit’s 1980s techno scene to highlight pioneering groups like the Belleville Three before jumping into the origins of today’s international club floor to draw important connections between industrialized labor systems and cultural production

The Employees chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-Thousand Ship

Immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha’s Five 1965 Girlfriends

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restless forty-two-year-old Sanskrit scholar turned psychoanalyst turned virulent anti-Freudian

or clarity and confusion