Mike Watson
Mike Watson: Ph.D Goldsmiths is a theorist, critic and curator who is principally focused on the relation between culture, new media and politics. He has written for Art Review, Artforum, Frieze, Hyperallergic and Radical Philosophy and has curated events at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale, and Manifesta 12, Palermo. In September 2021 he published his third book, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What to Do About It. Prior books, towards a Conceptual Militancy and Can the Left Learn to Meme? were published in 2016 and 2019. Watson has previously written several texts about Razavi’s work including in Artforum. Watson and Razavi co-authored a text for the publication of the Estonian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.