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BOOKS AND ESSAYS

Sytze Steenstra: 0031-6-28072072 / 0031-43-3540765; sytzesteenstra@mixed-media.info

I publish in Dutch as well as in English, mostly in an essayistic mode. In my writing, I try out combinations of diverse points of view, scholarly discourses, artistic disciplines, modes of experience, call it what you want. This often requires research, in which I have a good deal of experience. Sometimes I write as free-lance journalist, for example for art magazines, Museumtijdschrift and HTV de IJsberg, and essays for art catalogues.

See below for my books and contributions to books.

SInce 2010 I write a blog, in Dutch, consisting of short and longer essays on philosophy, the arts, life in general:  http://sytzesteenstra.wordpress.com/. ‘Reclame voor ziekte’(‘Advertising for disease’) was picked up by the newsletter of NCZ, a network of healthcare clients; another essay, ‘Het zwart in de romans van A. S. Byatt’ (‘The black in A. S. Byatt’s novels’) was republished on OoteOote, a literary filter blog.

Books:

Song and Circumstance

Song and Circumstance. The work of David Byrne from Talking Heads to the present.
New York and London: Continuum Books, 2010. 

“Scrupulously researched and uncannily on-the money” – David Byrne

To “look inside” this book, go to http://www.amazon.com/Song-Circumstance-David-Talking-Present/dp/0826441688#reader_
0826441688

Song and Circumstance” is recommended by Design Observer (“design, culture, change”): “a superbly wide-ranging, detailed and insightful analysis of the rock star, filmmaker, artist, and design collaborator’s multifaceted oeuvre”. (http://designobserver.com/books_recommended.html)

We Are The Noise Between Stations

We Are The Noise Between Stations.
A philosophical exploration of the work of David Byrne, at the crossroads of popular media, conceptual art, and performance theatre.

Maastricht: Mixed Media, 2003.

www.mixed-media.info/noise

Selected for Best Books of 2003 by Vrij Nederland magazine

Inleiding in de filosofie 1 inleiding in de filosofie 2 inleiding in de filosofie 3 inleiding in de filosofie 4

Inleiding in de Filosofie: het ware, het goede en het schone. [Introduction to Philosophy: the True, the Good and the Beautiful] Courseteamleader SytzeSteenstra. Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, 1994: four volumes. (out of print)
Vol. 1 Greek Antiquity and Middle Ages
Vol. 2 Modern Philosophy
Vol. 3 Contemporary Philosophy
Vol. 4 Reader

Essays, introductions, book contributions:
In English:

IT'S NICE TO BE NICE

Conceptual Cartoons in Suggestion City.
Catalogue essay, in: “It’s Nice To Be Nice, Try It”. Seoul, Zuid-Korea, 2009.
www.nayoungim-maass.com/
www.mixed-media.info/ConceptualCartoons

Warped Flow Gadget

Warped Flow Gadget.
Catalogue essay, in: “Warped Flow Gadget”. Seoul, Zuid-Korea, 2008.
www.nayoungim-maass.com/

dot dot dot

David Byrne: Getting the I out of design.
Dot dot dot, graphic design magazine, 2002.
www.davidbyrne.com/art/general/steenstra_
dotdotdot.pdf

reverberations

Neutralizing… Now! Or, International Rescue, the Fantastic Reality of the 21st Century.
Jean Fisher (ed.) “Reverberations. Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency in Trans/cultural Practices”. Jan van Eyck Akademie Editions, 2000.

"Man is actually chaos". The poetics of early Romanticism.
The HTV 51, art paper, 2004.
www.mixed-media.info/Man is actually chaos

In Dutch:

Ine Schröder

“Uit het dagboek van de tastzin”, in: Ine Schröder. Rimburg: Huis Clos, 2009.

[contribution, art catalogue, “From the diary of the sense of touch”]

zagen op zondag

“Een groot ding te logeren”, in: Ron Bernstein: Zagen op Zondag. Maastricht: Elephantine Press, 2009.

[introduction, artist’s book/performance documentation, “A big thing as house guest”]

zonder wrijving geen glans

“Halverwege onbevangenheid. Over het beeldende werk van David Byrne”, in: Zonder Wrijving Geen Glans. Curatorentraject Het Proces en de tentoonstelling Stop Making Sense. Amsterdam: Kunstenaars &Co, 2009.

[contribution, exhibition catalogue, “Halfway to open-mindedness. On the visual art of David Byrne”]

pop in literatuur

De besmettelijkheid van jingles. Don DeLillo’s Underworld als soundtrack.
In: Maarten Steenmeijer (red) Pop in literatuur. Utrecht: IJzer, 2005.
www.mixed-media.info/Jingles

[book contribution: “Contagious jingles. Don DeLillo’s ‘Underworld’ as soundtrack”]

stadsgalerij heerlen

Ron Bernstein. Catalogus, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, 2001.

[catalogue contribution]

eenrichtingsverkeer

“Nawoord”, in: Walter Benjamin: Eenrichtingsverkeer. Vertaling Sytze Steenstra. Amsterdam:
Sauternes, 1991.

[Afterword and translation of Benjamin’s “One-Way Street”]

Stijl als grondslag. Het filosofisch schrijverschap van Adorno. Krisis, tijdschrift voor filosofie.
www.krisis.eu/content/2005-1/2005-1-07-steenstra.pdf
[academic article: “Style as foundation. Adorno’s philosophical authorship”]
Zijn er nog vragen? David Byrne als conceptuele songwriter en het experimentele theater.
Armada, Tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur, 2006.
www.mixed-media.info/Armada
[article: “Are there any questions? David Byrne as conceptual songwriter and experimental theatre”]
“Polderfotomodel” in: Judith Boer: Gekopte tulpen langs de Lange Slaper. Maastricht, 2001. [text for artist’s book]
“De cultuurkritiek van de Frankfurter Schule” in: Denken over cultuur. Gebruik en misbruik van een concept. Heerlen: Open Universiteit, 1993. [course chapter]

JOURNALISM
Museumtijdschrift, Jan/Feb 2011: Leon Golub.