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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.

economics
digital culture
cultural critic
capitalism
digital media
ecology
art

Fiction

Shut your eyes and see!

Open for the plurality of all forms of imagination and knowledge, DIAPHANES MAGAZINE connects an interest in current tendencies with deep-rooted research, the power of fiction with nuanced judgment, aesthetic excitability with essayistic sharpness.

avant-garde
art criticism
discourse
art
contemporary art
literature
contemporary culture

Discourse

Tom McCarthy

“Obsessed with buffering”

practice
literary studies
Modernism
fiction
conversation
literature
temporality
poetics
time

Humanities

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

"Curriculum Vitae in Pictures“

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.

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1930s
photographic images
portrait
Siegfried Kracauer
photography
History of photography
Paris
biography
collection
exile
1950s
20th century

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Punk Philology

This issue matchmakes an unlikely couple.

philology
discourse
contemporary art
art
literature

Magazine Online

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

Espace DIAPHANES Zürich:
Baltensperger + Siepert—NO REAL BODY

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

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

The University of Chicago Press – Fall 2022

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

Observing the Spectator

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Complicity in Spectatorship

The special case of lustful murdering soldiers of King Herod and the introduction of spectators on frescos by Giotto and pulpits by the Pisani are at the core of this contribution, which poses the question: How is cruelty visualized in Italy around 1300? The introduction of detached spectators in opposition...

Beate Fricke

Complicity in Spectatorship

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Disabling / Enabling Photography

The article examines the representation of people with cognitive and physical disabilities in two sets of photographs, (a) the commercial portraits of American and European show freaks from the 19th and early 20th century and (b) artistic images made by American photographer Diane Arbus between the 1950s and the 1970s.It...

Lars Nowak

Disabling / Enabling Photography

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Public Space and Public Audience in the Illustrated Manuscripts of al-Hariri's »Maqâmât«

Constitutive of the 50 equally composed stories of al-Hariri’s »Maqâmât« (literally »gathering, convention«) is a multitudinous, mostly anonymous audience. Its main character is the gifted speaker Abu Said, who, more often than not, makes surreptitiously a living from his speeches and sermons to people of diverse social strata. While the...

Andrea Lermer

Öffentlicher Raum und Publikum in den Illustrationen der »Maqâmât« al-Hariris im 13. Jahrhundert

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The Installation of the Eye: Sandro Botticelli's Adorazioni and the Arrival of the Beholder in Fifteenth-Century Painting

Like only few other pictorial themes in Western art, the Adoration of the Magi, rather than presenting a mere depiction of the event, manufactures an image of the experience of seeing itself. The great number of Adorazioni painted by Sandro Botticelli bespeak the process in which this type of seeing...

Christiane Hille

Training the Eye

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

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

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Current Texts

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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A. L. Kennedy

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

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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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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Ute Holl

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

Only art has the power of a form. Mathematics is an exercise for monks.

Alain Badiou

Art and Mathematics

After all, the history of modern and contemporary art can be read as the progressive inclusion of a growing part of the formless into apparatuses.

We all know that the relationship between mathematical activity and artistic creation is a very old one. We know that for a start the Pythagoreans tied the science of number not merely to the movements of the stars but to musical modes. We know that Babylonian and Egyptian architecture presupposed elaborate geometrical knowledge, even if the notion of demonstration had still not been won. Further back still, we find formal, or abstract, outlines mixed in with animal representations, in the...

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poetry
art criticism
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Arts

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

Donatien Grau, James Spooner

“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.’” OPEN
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A coffin to bury the statues of the ancestors

Clémentine Deliss

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

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

Arts

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

Sex creates love and love creates sex

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

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Arts

Elena Vogman

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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Books

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

Dieter Mersch: Epistemologies of Aesthetics

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

Jens Andermann (ed.), Lisa Blackmore (ed.), ...: Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape

Fiction

All that pent up terror and rage

Dodie Bellamy

Plague Widow

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

Driving to the Castro, Bee Reaved feels hyper emotional, as she often does in the car, Nick Cave’s Ghosteen on repeat, and she thinks—this is what it’s like to live without hope. Six months after Kevin’s death, friends left her to fare for herself. Other widows warned her this would happen, that everybody would disappear before she was ready. One widow she no longer talks to said, “Wait and see, you’re going to have a total breakdown.” Now, with the...

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Fiction

Stephen Barber

Twenty-four hours in state of unconsciousness

Now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself… ABO

“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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Mike Wilson

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

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

Soham Gupta

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

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.

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Fiction

Kim Gordon

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

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Books

Yan Marchand, Vincent Sorel: Diogenes the Dog-Man

Frédéric Morlot, Anne-Margot Ramstein: Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas

Miriam Henke, Jérôme Meyer-Bisch: Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon

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

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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Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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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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Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Slavs and Tatars

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

From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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communication media
communication
linguistics
semiotics and semiology
utopia
science fiction

Discourse

»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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Evil
film
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Authors

Books

David Graeber: Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

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

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

Elisabeth Bronfen: Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

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

Humanities

Essays on Photography by Siegfried Kracauer

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

The Past's Threshold

There can be no doubt, however, that in Kracauer’s texts published at the turn of the 1920s and the 1930s from his position as an editor of the cultural pages at the daily newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, then in the 1950s during his American period, he sketches out a theorisation of photography that can be described as groundbreaking. But it is also true that most of his works overlap, in more than one way, with this medium of reproduction or that...

Siegfried Kracauer
film
media theory
History of photography
photography

Humanities

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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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Philippe Sollers

Like no other journal, Tel Quel was an outstanding arena of literary innovation and intellectual revolution. In this conversation its founder and publisher, Philippe Sollers, provides intimate insight and polemical hindsight into some of the most important milestones of its still-resonating era. ABO DE

Alexander García Düttmann

What does “emancipatory” mean today?

Let us pretend one more time that the world can still be saved. ABO DE

Each showroom has a couple of “managers”.

Do I really know the person I’ve watched every day on screen for months? I know many things, like where he is, where he comes from, what his home looks like, when he gets up and sleeps, etc. But do I really know him? ABO DE

Humanities

Malte Fabian Rauch

Nothing is at home

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

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art
aesthetics
phenomenology
art theory
Modernism

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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