Art & politics & fiction & sex & death & aesthetics & reading & psychobiography & dialectics & philosophy & horror & sleeping & reading & music & intensity & jouissance &... 8 speakers negotiate diverse positions mapping the radical terrain of the ampersand http://www.ica.org.uk/ JJ CHARLESWORTH - http://www.jjcharlesworth.com/ is a critic and Reviews Editor, ArtReview. Nothing is Never Autonomous. If dialectics isn't a play of opposites, but a way into the multiple realities that make up a thing or a phenomenon, how might art be understood as a meeting place for many possible contradictions, instead of just a few? What if autonomous art was art both at its least and most free? Symposium convened by John Russell & Alun Rowlands, Department of Fine Art, University of Reading. Less