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Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

This issue explores practices of human and non-human substitution.

motherhood
contemporary art
body
gender
poetry
mother figure

Fiction

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

The human face is an empty force

The human face has not yet found its face.

art
Modernism
avant-garde
drawing

Discourse

Haifa’s architectural modernism

Ines Weizman synchronises different narratives that have been swept away by the chaotic hurricanes of time.

Middle East
history of architecture
Israel
memory

Humanities

Siegfried Kracauer, Philippe Despoix (ed.), ...

Essays on Photography by Siegfried Kracauer

History of photography
photography
Siegfried Kracauer
media theory
film

Magazine

Surrogacies

Myths and visions of motherhood and fathering, brings together artistic and theoretical positions on reproduction and communication, gender and genus, addressing and conception.

aesthetics
feminism
father figure
gender
contemporary art
motherhood
mother figure
body
queer theory

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Karin Gludovatz, Matthias Warstat, ...: Intervenierende Künste

Eva Backhaus (ed.), Grit Dommes (ed.), ...: Dynamics of the Intransitive

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.): Breaking Grounds

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: In Touch: Encounters between Art and Research

Observing the Spectator

Article

Condolence. Mourning Companions on Burgundian and other Sepulchers

Starting out from the two famous sepulchral monuments of the Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Bold (d. 1404) and John the Fearless (d. 1419) in Dijon, this article examines the function of the anonymous companions of the funeral procession immortalized in stone, who are standing around the tomb, the so...

Henrike Haug

Anteilnahme

Article

Inner-pictorial viewers in Persian book painting

The figure of the inner-pictorial viewer is present in so-called Persian book painting already from the Ilkhanid period of the 13th Century onwards. The article investigates the changing forms and functions of such figures up to the 16th Century in regard to the text-image-relations essential to the medium. It will...

Alberto Saviello

See and Be Amazed!

Article

The Eye and the Gaze: The phenomenon of viewership in Archaic and Classical Greek painting

The contribution focusses on how images from the 8th to the 5th century address the issue of looking and watching. The phenomenon of the specific representation of the viewer (and viewers) in the image is related to the following aspects: (1) the modes of impression of figurative elements and the...

Annette Haug

Das Auge und der Blick

Article

The Moving Spectator in Medieval Italian Art

This essay traces the importance of monumental art in Erwin Panofsky’s evolution of perspectival space by critically analyzing his concept of a Raumkasten (»space-box«). In Panofsky’s 1920s work, the teleological development between bodies and space from the 11th to the 14th centuries plays a crucial role in the history of...

Christopher Lakey

From Place to Space

Nothing is at home

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.

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phenomenology
art
art theory
Modernism
aesthetics

Current Texts

Dream, Clouds, Off, Exile

“Communism will be when we understand something of love.”

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exile
Karl Marx
monotheism
film
communism

Current Texts

Pierre Guyotat

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G. OPEN
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How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.” ABO DE

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Tyler Coburn

However convincingly space agencies justify the enormous budgets, there’s one gratuitous expense: training astronauts for free fall. ABO

Arts

»Self-censorship is the worst.«

Lars von Trier in Conversation with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem & Raphaëlle Milone

»Three hundred people left The House that Jack Built. I think that’s very good, and it wasn’t Cannes.«

We land in Copenhagen after only an hour’s sleep the previous night. We travel a long way by subway to a residential area on the edge of the city: large houses with gardens and woodland, almost no one around. We finally find the address we’ve been given. We approach the house through the garden, and we’re immediately in a film by Lars von Trier: a black limousine, a small shack that might be an office with a computer and piles...

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film d'auteur
film
cinema
Evil
contemporary art

Arts

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream OPEN
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Simon Critchley

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer. ABO

When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

In his photographs and texts, Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways. ABO DE FR

To lay a hand on the shoulder of future victims…

Donatien Grau, Pierre Guyotat

»By using voices I have rediscovered what we call humanity.« OPEN
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Arts

»This is not my blood.«

What is the problem with solutions? Blind or deaf? Which faith? What knowledge? Duchamp or Warhol? East or west?

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human–animal communication
identity
Video art
performance art

Arts

Donatien Grau, James Spooner

“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

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Authors

Books

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Watchfiends and Rack Screams

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud the Mômo

Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

Sabine Gebhardt Fink (ed.), Andrej Mircev (ed.): Revolving Documents—Narrations of Beginnings, Recent Methods and Cross-Mappings of Performance Art

Fiction

Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it.

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

Why this past? Why is this past mine? A past which I did not even know?

"This is a book about the power that a past War holds over a German growing up in the 1950s and 1960s: born too late to see that war and too early to forget it. The narrative shows how painfully public events — the shadows, rather, of events gone by — intrude upon a life and shape it. The English translation appears at a moment when most of the key issues have radically changed. Germany has signed what amounts to a...

1968
autobiography
memory
homosexuality
emigration

Fiction

A. L. Kennedy

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first… ABO DE FR

Axel Dielmann

“Can you imagine something like that?”

The curators were probably worried that someone would stumble carelessly up the stairs while looking at the exhibits… OPEN
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Tom McCarthy

The ironic self-awareness of the poet can only be that of his own inauthenticity, repeated or fed back into itself at increasingly conscious levels, and ‘to know inauthenticity is not the same as to be authentic’. ABO DE

Angelika Meier

Your story begins with a tunnel.

The lost cause is the only one worth fighting for. OPEN
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Fiction

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember?

Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

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Fiction

Dodie Bellamy

All that pent up terror and rage

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats.

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Discourse

Digital disrupture

Dieter Mersch

Digital Criticism

The machine remains alien to any mechanical limitation.

We really need an analysis of algorithmic conditions and their paradoxes and ambiguities that gives them an adequate framework and horizon. But instead we currently seem to be finding an algorithmic solution of the algorithmic, much as digital solutions are being offered for the problems of the digital public sphere, in the way that IT corporations, for example, use exclusively mathematical procedures to evaluate and delete “fake news,” inappropriate portrayals, or the violation of personal rights. This tends to result...

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Discourse

Stephen Barber

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. OPEN
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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them. ABO DE FR

Marcus Quent

Belief in the world is what we most lack.

Is it possible to regain a lost belief? Is it possible to do as we will with belief? OPEN
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Ines Kleesattel

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning. OPEN
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Discourse

Sina Dell’Anno

The Disobedience of the Word

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

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Discourse

From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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communication media
semiotics and semiology
utopia
communication
linguistics
science fiction

Authors

Books

Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans

Erich Hörl (ed.), Nelly Y. Pinkrah (ed.), ...: Critique and the Digital

Gertrud Koch: Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even

Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Tom McCarthy: Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

Humanities

Black Panther is an American, not an African story

A.K. Kaiza

An Annotated History of Wakanda

In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts.

The movie Black Panther, which has become the most successful superhero movie of all time, imagines Wakanda in a very specific and maybe even slightly emancipatory way. Black Panther, now the king of the concealed super-state, faces his current archenemy Killmonger, who wants to distribute arms to the Global South for an uprising against neoliberal imperialism. The scene that introduces Erik “Killmonger” Stevens, the antagonist to Ryan Coogler’s newly imagined hero, takes place in a museum. Killmonger (played by a mesmeric...

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Humanities

Mengia Tschalaer

“The sexual asylum story is everything,” OPEN
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Andreas L. Hofbauer

The yoke of being, noteworthy dis-position

Anyone inclined to describe hunters and gatherers as poor, would be advised to understand them as free. OPEN
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Sandra Frimmel

What does it mean? ABO DE

Barbara Basting

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure. ABO DE

Humanities

Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them…

“So many egoists call themselves artists,” Rimbaud wrote to Paul Demeny on May 15, 1871. Even though that is not always obvious, ‘I’, the first person, is the most unknown person, a mystery that is constantly moving towards the other two, the second and third persons, a series of unfoldings and smatterings that eventually gelled as ‘Je est un autre’. That is why ‘apocryphal’ is a literarily irrelevant concept and ‘pseudo’ a symptom, the very proof that life, writing, is made up of echoes, which means that intrusions and thefts (Borges also discusses them) will always be the daily bread of those who write.

Words from others, words taken out of place and mutilated: here are the alms of time, that squanderer’s sole kindness. And so many others, mostly others who wrote, and many other pages, all of them apocryphal, all of them echoes, reflections. All this flows together into—two centuries...

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