Lauren @laurenspond

Los Angeles

8.17.2026 “The aesthetic for Rancière therefore signals an ability to think contradiction: the productive contradiction of art's relationship to social change, which is characterized by the paradox of belief in art's autonomy and in it being inextricably bound to the promise of a better world to come. --In short, the aesthetic doesn't need to be sacrificed at the altar of social change, because it always already contains this ameliorative promise.“ Claire Bishop in Artificial Hells Ameliorative definition: verb [with object] formal make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better: the reform did much to ameliorate living standards. Freaking love this
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What I’m studying (Fall 26)

  • Contemporary Moral Problems
  • Symbolic Logic
  • Biological Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Religion, Witchcraft, & Magic
  • Seminar on Autofiction (Following McKenzie Wark’s public syllabus)
  • Element, Individual, Ensemble, Network (in December with School of Materialist Research)

Last updated on Tuesday, August 25, 2026