FAIR ENOUGH by ART COLOGNE + TEXTE ZUR KUNST #1

FAIR ENOUGH is a podcast series by ART COLOGNE in collaboration
with the journal TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Presented by Micaela Dixon, FAIR
ENOUGH brings together artists, curators, writers, and thinkers to
reflect on how art and its institutions are responding to the
urgencies of our present moment. This season marks the 35th
anniversary of TEXTE ZUR KUNST. Here, the journal's motto for the
year is taken up, there is no art without criticism. Each episode
returns to a past issue of the journal to revisit the debates it
sparked and to consider how those questions continue to shape the
cultural and political landscape today. In this episode, Michaela
Dixon is joined by Professor Anna Kornbluh, who teaches English at
the University of Illinois in Chicago. Broadly speaking, Kornbluh's
research engages cultural production, including the novel, film,
TV, art, and architecture, through and alongside Marxism,
psychoanalysis, formalism, and literary theory. In 2025, she was
ranked number nine on the Art Review Power 100 list. Her recent
essays have explored topics such as infrastructure cinema, the
death drive, solidarity, and feminist abstraction. She is the
author of Immediacy or the Style of Too Late Capitalism, published
by Verso Books in 2024. Currently, Kornbluh is working on two
forthcoming books. The first, Climate Counter-Aesthetics, argues
for forms that can test prevailing ecological artworks and counter
eco-critical paradigms. And the second, Good Enough Art, offers a
theory of mid-aesthetics in the context of disappearing
middle-class economics, a topic discussed in this episode.