This essay began as a series of seminars given by Gillick at unitednationsplaza, Berlin. A version of this text was given as the 2008 Hermes Lecture/AKV St. Joost, Avans University, NL.
Liam Gillick would like to thank Camiel van Winkel for his editing of an earlier version of this text.
© 2009 e-flux and the author