This three-day workshop will redress three major afflictions in writing about art today.

This course teaches writing with style, clearly, directly, and principally for diverse audiences, without compromising the complexity of ideas.

This course centres on two of the most important analyses of capitalism recently published: Mladen Dolar’s Rumors (2025) and Alenka Zupančič’s Disavowal (2024). We’ll carefully unpack Dolar’s and Zupančič’s arguments with supplementary readings and viewings, with the aim of creating more forceful analytical, artistic, and activist interruptions of the catastrophic present we live.  

BICAR’s two-day workshop on ‘Writing Academic Texts’ will provide necessary reprieve, teaching concrete skills to students, long-form journalists, public intellectuals, and professors who know what they’re thinking critically but get stuck honing and translating that thought in written form.