Superhumanity - Boris Groys - Self-Design, or Productive Narcissism

Self-Design, or Productive Narcissism

Boris Groys

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A photograph from Alexandre Kojève's extensive collection. From the exhibition "After History: Kojève as a Photographer" at BAK (Basis voor actuele Kunst), Utrecht, curated by Boris Groys. 

Superhumanity
September 2016










Notes
1

Alexandre Kojève, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, trans. James H. Nichols (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980), 5.

2

Ibid, 6–7.

3

Ibid., 6.

4

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Inhuman. Reflections on Time, trans. Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby (London: Polity Press, 1989), 9.

5

Ibid., 12.

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.