Marisa Lerer
Student Fellow
Marisa Lerer is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. She is currently writing her dissertation “30 Reasons to Remember: Patronage and Artistic Strategies for Memorializing Argentina’s Disappeared,” which analyzes public artworks dedicated to victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
Participating Years
2011–2012
How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture
In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?