[spectre] Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and Capital: Unknown Unknowns

[marc garrett]

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Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and 
Capital: Unknown Unknowns

By Katie McCain.

Lies, Lawlessness and Disbelief 2: An Attempt at Thinking Art and 
Capital: Unknown Unknowns, is the second of five essays by Canadian 
artist & critical thinker, Katie McCain. McCain discusses how capitalism 
has become on the one hand all encompassing and on the other utterly 
unreal. Arguing that we need to be prepared to think the impossible so 
that resistance is able to grow.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/articles/lies-lawlessness-and-disbelief-2

"Unknown unknowns are intrinsic to this conceptual, contemporary 
capitalism, and operate as the risk that can eventually cause a system 
to fail. Failure emerges from the unprecedented, from the unthinkable, 
from the things you do not know you do not know.[1] Instead of 
attempting to predict these events for market gains, what would it mean 
to merely acknowledge the paradoxical nature of thinking the 
unthinkable? 'Unthinkable' operates as the other to any thought 
capacity, and in an attempt to access this impossible, it would be 
possible to access a non-knowledge, something on the edge of logic, of 
research, of ideas."

Katie McCain is a Canadian artist based in Berlin. She received her BFA 
from Concordia University and her MFA from Glasgow School of Art. Her 
work has been shown internationally, including shows in Montreal, 
Glasgow and Berlin.


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