Issue 4/2018 - #Fortschritt

Pessimism of the Will, Optimism of the Intellect

Lawrence Grossberg

Danh Võ, <i>We The People</i>, 2011-16, installation views, Public Art Fund New York, 2013, photos: James Ewing, all images courtesy: Galerie Chantal Crousel

Danh Võ, <i>We The People</i>, 2011-16, installation view in the exhibition <i>Ydob eht ni mraw si ti</i>, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2015, photo: Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln/ Britta streak

For the full-length English original of this essay please go to:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09502386.2018.1517268
For a related elaboration on the same topic see also:
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/optimism-intellect-grossberg-identity-left-politics/