Dominique Routhier, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation

Soyoung Yoon is Director of Parsons Fine Arts MFA at Parsons School of Design and Assistant Professor of Art History & Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School. Yoon received her PhD from Stanford University and holds a BA from Seoul National University; she was also a Faculty at the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) till 2023. Yoon’s research offers a sustained inquiry into the politics of mobility and rhetorics of testimony, witnessing, and storytelling in relation to the moving image. Yoon is especially attentive to how art participates in capital’s “expropriation of the senses”: the creation of productive and unproductive bodies, of new capacities and incapacities of perception and experience. Yoon is currently in the process of completing two monographs: Walkie Talkie on the rise of cinéma vérité amid anti-colonial struggles, new techniques of policing, and the new technological capacity for sync sound; and TV Buddhas on theories of suture and narrative, surveillance, and the body politic. A new book on the mattress as an artistic motif, A Mattress is Not a Bed, is in production.

Dominique Routhier is a writer, critic, and assistant professor at the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. He has published extensively in Scandinavian journals such as K&K, Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, and Paletten as well as internationally in Rethinking Marxism, Historical Materialism, Boundary 2 online, Los Angeles Review of Books, and New Left Review Sidecar, among others. His debut book, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation, was published by Verso Books in 2023.

Nadja Millner-Larsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, NYU. She is the author of Up Against the Real: Black Mask from Art to Action (University of Chicago Press, 2023), which reconsiders the contested intersections of art and radical politics through the history of the anti-art group Black Mask. Nadja's writing has been published in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Critical Correspondence, Grey Room, Women's Studies Quarterly, Art Monthly, Triple Canopy, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She also co-edited a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies on “Queer Commons" (2018). Nadja was an NEH postdoctoral scholar at the Getty Research Institute and a Helena Rubinstein fellow in critical studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She has previously held positions in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She received her PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. At XE, Nadja teaches a range of courses on interdisciplinary methods, critical theory, and political aesthetics.

Jeffrey West Kirkwood is a writer, critic, and associate professor of art history at SUNY Binghamton. He is the author of Endless Intervals (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and lives in New York City and Berlin.