Knowledge Beside Itself materials the ball has a ubiquitous

the ball has a ubiquitous presence almost wherever you look

but also what it would mean to approach art properly—to really look

particularly how problems originating in music have inspired mathematicians for centuries

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Knowledge Beside Itself materials the ball has a ubiquitousWhat is the role and function of contemporary art in economic and political systems that increasingly manage data and affect? Knowledge Beside Itself delves into the peculiar emphasis placed in recent years, morecuratorially and institutionally, on notions such as research and knowledge production. Considered as a specific, expansive mode of the culture industry, contemporary art is viewed here as a strategic bet on the social distinctions and value