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Mathias Denecke (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...

The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Today, it has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity.

art
digital media
economics
capitalism
ecology
digital culture
cultural critic

Fiction

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

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

memory
emigration
trauma
childhood
migration
youth
autobiography
homosexuality
National Socialism
1968
identity
post-war generation
post-war period
past
primal scene

Discourse

“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.’”

Humanities

In 62 Episodes until Death

If you look at life as if you would soon be dead, how do you look back?

crime
USA
violence
Evil
drugs
television
film experience
aesthetics of film
contemporary culture
pop culture
serial

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Punk Philology

This issue matchmakes an unlikely couple.

discourse
contemporary art
art
philology
literature

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News + Events

The University of Chicago Press – Fall 2022

ESPACE DIAPHANES Berlin:<br>Œuvres d’art, la revue, les livres

ESPACE DIAPHANES Berlin:
Œuvres d’art, la revue, les livres

Espace DIAPHANES Zürich: <BR>Baltensperger + Siepert—NO REAL BODY

Espace DIAPHANES Zürich:
Baltensperger + Siepert—NO REAL BODY

New releases

Gleb J. Albert (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov, ...: The Steps of Nemesis

Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, ...: How to Teach Art?

Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: Modern Philosophies of the Will

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): A Sinister Assassin

Wolfgang Brückle (ed.), Fred Truniger (ed.): Display Disruption Disorder

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...: Movements of Air

THINK ART? THINK ART!

Monograph

Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Does this buried or lost face have a name?

Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), Elena Vogman (ed.)

The Cube and the Face

Article

I’m not really sure what is and what isn’t theory.

Elisabeth Bronfen Tom, our idea here was that you would give us a little insight into how you find your themes, how you use theory for your texts. T.MC. I’m not really sure what is and what isn’t theory. I don’t really know where theory stops and fiction begins. If you take someone... ABO

Tom McCarthy

“Something that is not nothing”

Article

“Obsessed with buffering”

I’ve become obsessed with buffering—or the narrator in my new novel is obsessed with buffering. He’s an anthropologist who has grown up reading Lévi-Strauss but he’s also a corporate anthropologist who is working for the Man. He’s putting culture in the service of capital. Like we all do, he spends... ABO

Tom McCarthy

“Obsessed with buffering”

Monograph

One plus one equals other

For an aesthetic mode of thought beyond the “linguistic turn”

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

Why the Backwards Smile?

To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us?

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Dream, Clouds, Off, Exile

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

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communism
exile
film
Karl Marx
monotheism

Current Texts

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. 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

Sina Dell’Anno

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

We cannot assume that all government/terrorist interactions will take the form of a two-person zero-sum game. OPEN
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Arts

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

The Next Bit. Corpo a corpo con l’ignoto

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza?

Immaginiamo di trovarci al cospetto di un “oggetto semiotico” ignoto. Potrebbe trattarsi di un dipinto, di un brano di letteratura, di un pezzo musicale, di un programma informatico, di un artefatto culturale in senso lato: poco importa al momento, ciò che ci interessa è il carattere di estraneità di questo oggetto, di cui ignoriamo al momento tutto. Attardiamoci per un attimo in questo limbo interpretativo. Nella realtà, questa sorta di tabula rasa sostanzialmente non esiste, ogni oggetto ci arriva già...

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media theory
electronic music
reading
time
music

Arts

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” 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

Artur Zmijewski

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.” OPEN
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Arts

»Self-censorship is the worst.«

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

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cinema
film
film d'auteur
Evil
contemporary art

Arts

Donatien Grau, Pierre Guyotat

To lay a hand on the shoulder of future victims…

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

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Authors

Books

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Radio Works: 1946–48

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata: Diagonale du vide

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): “Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

Fiction

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

A. L. Kennedy

What is an Author?

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

The one who takes the temperature of widespread amphetamine dreams, who carves out screaming headlines to turn up the heat. The one who makes every morning a dose of paranoia, an uptick of fathomless rage. When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first, taking words and dipping them in shit, upending meanings and rewriting sanity. The one who writes the speeches for the tiny and furious men. The one who frames every demand, every statement...

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Fiction

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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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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“Poetry must be made by all. Not by one.”

Mário Gomes

“Nuestro Norte es el Sur” = “Our North is the South.” 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

Fiction

Kim Gordon

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

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Fiction

Pierre Guyotat

The matrix for »Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats«

“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.

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war experience
war

Authors

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

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Black Panther is an American, not an African story

A.K. Kaiza

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. 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

Zoran Terzić

The programs “sense” how the clients function, but not because AI is becoming more human—rather because clients now function as generically as programs. OPEN
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Discourse

Malte Fabian Rauch

Camouflaged with a visual language

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”

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Discourse

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

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

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Books

Liza Mattutat (ed.), Roberto Nigro (ed.), ...: What’s Legit?

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

Sami Khatib (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form

Shusha Niederberger (ed.), Cornelia Sollfrank (ed.), ...: Aesthetics of the Commons

Humanities

"Curriculum Vitae in Pictures“

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

The book tells the story of Lili and Siegfried Kracauer’s close working relationship – from the early 1930s following their marriage in Germany, to exile in Paris and the war and post-war years in the USA.

Kracauer. Photographic Archive presents largely unknown material from the estate of the German-American theorist of film and photography, Siegfried Kracauer and his wife and assistant Elisabeth, known as Lili. The single and group portraits, still lifes, street scenes and landscapes collected in this book all come from the estate of Siegfried Kracauer. Published here for the first time, they are an extensive and representative selection from the enlargements, contact sheets and rolls of film originally archived by Lili Kracauer. With...