Issue 131
On Criticism


Our first purely online issue is now live. We have a select group of writers to tackle what is in effect Circa's core activity: criticism and criticality.

It's a new venture - one linking to the past and looking to the future; please join us.

Part 1

Peter FitzGerald: Introduction

Declan Long: "An avalanche, a transformation..."

Suzanne van der Lingen: Critical Masses: Towards a New Medium for Art Criticism

Chris Fite-Wassilak: The Hope for an Open Wound

Sarah Tuck: Art Criticism - Disrupting or Creating Consensus?

Matt Packer: Critical Fantasies

Maria Fusco: Say who I am: Or a Broad Private Wink

Imelda Barnard: Art Criticism and Writing as Failure: "That is not what I meant at all."

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Part 2: Responses (ongoing)

Isobel Harbison: Sci-fi Décors have no Bookshelves

Michaële Cutaya: Not Utopia, Just its Possibility

Ed Krčma: Criticism and Criteria

Justin McKeown: Criticism?

Chris Clarke and others: Re: Circulation (An invitation...)

James Merrigan: Stupid Judgment