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"Doubletalk and Doublethink" Lectures on Abu Ghraib

"Doubletalk and Doublethink"

David Levi Strauss on Abu Ghraib and Images


Autonomedia author and critic David Levi Strauss is participating in four New York City area events in the next few weeks concerning Abu Ghraib prison and the media politics of the image.


The schedules of these events is below:Wednesday, Oct. 6—“Doubletalk & Doublethink: The Art and Politics of Language,” panel discussion moderated by Arthur Danto, with Barbara Kruger, Boris Groys, Nancy Snow, and David Levi Strauss. Sponored by the International Association of Art Critics in conjunction with the New York Public Library and the Warhol Foundation. At the New York Public Library, South Court Auditorium, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, 6:30-8 pm. Admission $10 ($7 for NYPL and AICA members).


Tuesday, Oct. 19—“Breakdown in the Gray Room: The Images from Abu Ghraib,” slide lecture by David Levi Strauss for the Human Rights Project at Bard College, Olin 102, 7:30 pm.


Wednesday, Oct. 27—“Breakdown in the Gray Room: The Images from Abu Ghraib,” slide lecture by David Levi Strauss in the Evening Lecture Series at the New York Studio School, 8 West 8th Street, 7:00 pm.


Tuesday, Nov. 9—“Inconvenient Evidence: The Effects of Abu Ghraib,” panel discussion with Seymour Hersh, Luc Sante, Brian Wallis, and David Levi Strauss. Sponsored by the International Center of Photography and the New Yorker magazine. In the Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue, 7:00 pm.