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Haifa’s architectural modernism

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

Israel
history of architecture
memory
Middle East

Fiction

About a Coronation Cloak from Ethiopia

“The dead will shelter the living. They will find us once we have named them one by one”.

museum
public sphere

Discourse

Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

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

poetry
body
motherhood
mother figure
gender
contemporary art

Humanities

Muriel Fischer (ed.), Sandra Frimmel (ed.), ...

The Power of Narratives in Propaganda

Narratives are the enduring stars of propaganda and disinformation.

Russia
intelligence sercive
analytics of power
propaganda

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.

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

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Kevin B. Lee (ed.), Marine de Dardel (ed.), ...: The Future of Reality

Muriel Fischer (ed.), Sandra Frimmel (ed.), ...: Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation

Sigrid Adorf (ed.), Sønke Gau (ed.), ...: going public.

Maaza Mengiste: Of Interest to the General Public

The Subject of Capitalism

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Con Artist Don Draper, the archetypical American hero

At the very moment when the black figure falls through the vintage snap shots the loss of world seems complete.

Elisabeth Bronfen

The American Dream—A Game of Confidence

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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Matthew Weiner’s series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen’s claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an...

Elisabeth Bronfen

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Article

Multiples, Authorship and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust’s Aura

Using the example of the portrait bust as a genre, this paper will explore the ambiguous and problematic relationship between aura and the multiple in the eighteenth century. During this period the portrait bust emerged as an ambitious mode of representation, assuming close attention on the part of the viewer...

Malcolm C. Baker

Multiples, Authorship and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust’s Aura

Article

Complexifying the Subject of Interest

We are enjoined to rational choice. We are taught that our freedom is one with the freedom of choice. We are told we become who we are by how we choose. We are assured that if we choose well, according to our own best interests, we will end up serving... OPEN
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Brian Massumi

The Market in Wonderland

Ornamentation is the body of our thought

With Bely, a continuum is continuously produced between visceral organic states, political states of society and meteorological states of the world.

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Current Texts

Punk’s raptures are mystical.

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.

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Current Texts

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

“If you love your family, you want family abolition for them!” ABO DE

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

New releases

Jürgen Brokoff (ed.), Karin Gludovatz (ed.), ...: Intervenierende Künste

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

Beate Söntgen (ed.), Katharina Tchelidze (ed.), ...: Scenes of the Avant-Garde

Naomi Boyce (ed.), Matthias Grotkopp (ed.), ...: Digital Interventions

Anna-Lisa Dieter (ed.), Daniel Tyradellis (ed.): On Water

Arts

Reality, No More?

Marine de Dardel (ed.), Kevin B. Lee (ed.), ...

The Future of Reality

“Reality is all we have to love. There is nothing else.” John Berger

Everyday life without audiovisual technologies is no longer imaginable. How do we experience reality in the age of generative AI, algorithmic media, and the omnipresence of digital platforms? How does cinema—and all audiovisual media— construct, challenge and reimagine reality in times of ecological, political, and technological transformation?

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art
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Arts

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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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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

Sex creates love and love creates sex

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

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philology
music

Arts

Clémentine Deliss

A coffin to bury the statues of the ancestors

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo…

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colonial history
contemporary art
Africa
museum
colonialism
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Authors

Books

Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), ...: The Cube and the Face

Daniel Berndt (ed.), Susanne Huber (ed.), ...: ambivalent work*s

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

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): The Human Face and Other Writings on His Drawings

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

Fiction

Yes, magic exists!

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

A Sinister Assassin

from myself / to myself / who is it that comes / and who is it that goes?

Antonin Artaud’s very last work, prior to his death in March 1948, is the most extraordinary element of his entire body of work – and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud – through its fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms, along with its dissolutions and negations of forms, focused above all on the human anatomy, as well as on sonic experimentation and on provocations for innovation in...

autobiography
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Modernism
poetry
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Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s literature is a fast trip through the American night, drawn in melancholy images of great beauty. ABO

Jochen Thermann

I really should not have hired him…

Waldemar—well, that was not actually his name… ABO DE FR

Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟ OPEN
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Zoran Terzić

Everything new is a pose in the alcoves of capital

In the post-avant-garde era we’re all either in the vanguard or asleep in the lap of capital. In this sense everybody is avant-garde—or nobody. OPEN
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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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Fiction

Diane Williams

How about some string?

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

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.”
“No,” he said, “but I see you have string!”
“If this comes into motion—” I said, “you should use a rope.”
“Any poison ivy on that? ” he asked me, and I told him my rope had been in the barn peacefully for years.
He took a length of it to the bedside table. He had no concept for what wood could endure.
“Table must have broken when I lashed it onto the truck,” he said.
And, when he was moving the sewing machine, he let the cast iron wheels—bang, bang on the stair.
I had settled down to pack up the ﬂamingo cookie jar, the cutlery, and the cookware, but stopped brieﬂy, for how many times do you catch sudden sight of something heartfelt?
I saw our milk cows in their slow...

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Authors

Books

Donatien Mary, Ronan de Calan: The Ghost of Karl Marx

Jean Paul Mongin, François Schwoebel: Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius

Yan Marchand, Vincent Sorel: Diogenes the Dog-Man

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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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall. ABO

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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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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Discourse

Slavs and Tatars

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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Discourse

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

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

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

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

Humanities

The Disobedience of the Word

Sina Dell’Anno

Punk / Philology

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

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime,’ so well had he read his Homer.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg paints the portrait of a philologist who has lost touch with the world through reading the classics too closely. The comedy of the aphorism lies not in just the misreading alone, but in the fact that the philologist exchanges the everyday ‘prime’ for the much more exotic name of the Trojan king; as if the textual-critical maxim lectio difficilior had gone over into...

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