Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions American also serves as “the best…introduction

also serves as “the best…introduction so far to Barthes’ career as the slayer of contemporary myths” (JOHN STURROCK

and Fifi Corday’s

conveying a dreamlike

between themselves and with others

Susan Howe’s new book opens with the arresting long prose poem “Penitential Cries

Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions American also serves as “the best…introductionAn essay by Laura Lpez Paniagua, with an introduction by John Miller Mike Kelley is best known as one of the most influential visual artists of his generation. But he was also an insightful theorist who wrote profusely about his work as well as on aesthetics in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, an epoch marked, in his view, by victim culture and the pop psychology phenomenon known as repressed memory syndrome. Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory