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Should we abandon the cosmopolitan idea?

minor cosmopolitan takes the “ism” out of “cosmopolitanism.”

art
cosmopolitics
globalization
politics
art theory

Fiction

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

Me?

This tongue between four gums,
this meat between two knees,
this piece of hole
for madmen.

avant-garde
psychiatry
poetry
literature

Discourse

A dialogue that doesn’t cover up its traces

Anarchism is about the possibility of a crowd becoming smarter.

anarchy
anarchism
resistance
political theory
community

Humanities

Claire Brizon (ed.), Chonja Lee (ed.), ...

Exotic?

Why is an object, an artwork, or a person deemed “exotic”?

art
exotism
Enlightenment
Switzerland

Magazine

Authenticity and Feedback

DIAPHANES 8/9 looks into curious loops of reproduced present, the integral of circular I-effects, the other side of the social Möbius strip.

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Magazine Online

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ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

Exotic? Switzerland Looking Outward in the Age of Enlightenment – Exhibition

24.09.2020 – 28.02.2021

Palais de Rumine
Place de la Riponne 6
1005 Lausanne
Schweiz

The University of Chicago Press – Fall 2020

WATCHOUT !<br> Luc Meresma at Espace DIAPHANES Zurich

WATCHOUT !
Luc Meresma at Espace DIAPHANES Zurich

ESPACE DIAPHANES Berlin:<br>The magazine, its authors and their books

ESPACE DIAPHANES Berlin:
The magazine, its authors and their books

New releases

David Graeber: Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Claire Brizon (ed.), Chonja Lee (ed.), ...: Exotic Switzerland?

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

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

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

Autofiction—Metafiction

Article

»The camera is my »exosomatic extension‹.«

But how can an art in the name of the specific be the lingua franca of globalized art? OPEN
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Gertrud Koch, Michael Lüthy, Bernhard Schieder, Allan Sekula

A Walk With Allan Sekula Through His Exhibition

Monograph

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?

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

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”

Article

“I fled Europe as one flees one’s parents’ house“

I recognize that lobby. The Washington Hilton. Men in business suits are crammed in there by the thousands. American philosophers meeting for a convention. A compact assembly of thinkers. Thirty-five hundred of them, Newsweek published the figure. The eastern division of the American Philosophical Association. I make a tour of...

Reiner Schürmann

How I Try to Sell Myself to the Americans

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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migration
ethics
propaganda
documenta
contemporary art
Poland
gift
National Socialism
concentration camp
political aesthetics

Current Texts

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

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

“Communism will be when we understand something of love.” OPEN
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Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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Arts

A coffin to bury the statues of the ancestors

The Repatriation of the White Cube

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

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo. But as I found out on a recent visit to Lusanga in DRC, it is precisely the complexity and radical ambiguity of the enterprise that provides it with both artistic as well as socio-economic and political relevance. The work operates across several registers, each with its own context and syntax, be it within farming or art. What really convinces me is the equity...

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colonial history
colonialism
contemporary art
Africa
museum

Arts

What is the problem with solutions? Blind or deaf? Which faith? What knowledge? Duchamp or Warhol? East or west? 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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Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Sandra Frimmel

What does it mean? ABO DE

Arts

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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Arts

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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Authors

Books

Philippe Despoix (ed.), Siegfried Kracauer, ...: The Past's Threshold

Donatien Grau (ed.), Christoph Wiesner (ed.): After the Crisis

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

Dieter Mersch: Epistemologies of Aesthetics

Fiction

An immodest proposal

Stephen Barber

A War of Fragments: World Versus America

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. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions. Although the Ballard estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do...

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Fiction

Julien Maret

Track the clouds

heal slowly… when the deed is done… when coming back is nowhere… we slide our hands through sloping fountains… ABO

Ann Cotten

The last philosopher. The zen-queen.

In what way are you a communist – since we need to define this. OPEN
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Angelika Meier

Your story begins with a tunnel.

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

I really should not have hired him…

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

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

Fiction

A. L. Kennedy

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

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

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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

Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death. ABO FR DE

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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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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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

Discourse

Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

Hurrah!

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

ABO

Discourse

A.K. Kaiza

Black Panther is an American, not an African story

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.

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Authors

Books

Elisabeth Bronfen: Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Alexander Kluge, Joseph Vogl: Soll und Haben

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

Humanities

Dance with the Data

Philipp Fischer, Gabriele Gramelsberger, ...

Natures of Data

Data could have been structured in a new way—or not…

Even though the interaction among data, computers and programs is quite mundane and goes on in full sight of the world, its circumstances and consequences are not yet fully understood. In all of its meanings outlined above, the nature of data could have been structured in a new way—or not. This is precisely what this book is about.

art theory
history of science
theory of science
art
biology

Humanities

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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Ines Kleesattel

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning. OPEN
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Sylvia Sasse

“Lifestyle must conform to the above-named circles of persons or be easily adapted,” “artistic talent,” “strong general education.” OPEN
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Helmut J. Schneider

A Phenomenology of Compassion

How to make the strange person our “neighbor”? 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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Humanities