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Empty Diagonal
Empty Diagonal

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata

Diagonale du vide

A ghostly France: Emptiness and explosiveness behind the lines.

“If there is an artist capable of making these vacuums speak, it is d’Agata. To show what is not visible, to make present what can not be represented. There is a visual 'spectralism' about Antoine. It is about recording the spasms of humanity that is committing suicide, which has access to all the information needed to know what it is doing, and yet does nothing to revert the trend. We documented this suicide during a week of shared driving, of...
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“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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Why the Backwards Smile?

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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Sex creates love and love creates sex

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” OPEN
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Punk’s raptures are mystical.

Simon Critchley

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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»This is not my blood.«

»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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Anthology

Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten

In den heutigen Praxistheorien spielen Dinge und ihre Materialität eine prominente Rolle. Dinge gelten als ausgesprochen wirkmächtig, insofern sie als...

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Über das Denken der Kunst

Von der Kunst als Forschung und der Forschung als Kunst ist spätestens seit den 1990er Jahren die Rede. Das Konzept sucht die Künste und Wissenschaften in ihrer Arbeitsweise einander anzunähern, doch wird dabei kaum die Frage gestellt, welche Art von Wissen die Künste im Unterschied zu den Wissenschaften hervorbringen. Dieter...

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologien des Ästhetischen

Anthology

Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen

Zugleich Gegenstand und Verfahren, setzt das serielle Denken, wie es sich in diesem Band abzeichnet, mithin eine Reihe von sonst...

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Monograph

Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films

Filmbetrachtung hat es zunächst mit materiellen Sichtbarkeiten zu tun, mit Bildern, die dem Blick gegeben sind, bevor sie zu erzählen...

Fabienne Liptay

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About ‘how we treat the others’

Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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

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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Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Symbolical transplants are necessary

Strangeness is everywhere, but strangers are only where we define them. ABO DE FR
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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata: Diagonale du vide
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Jiji-Crycry
Jiji-Crycry

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

“Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

Me, Antonin Artaud, I am my son, my father, my mother, and me.

The two poetic works collected together here as Here Lies preceded by Indian Culture were created as a partly improvised vocal performance dictated during one session on 25 November 1946, based on provisional notes, and transcribed by Artaud’s collaborator Paule Thévenin at Artaud’s pavilion in Ivry-sur-Seine. The two works together form one of the outstanding experiments of Artaud’s final period. Those two works were published in one volume in Paris on 20 January 1948 by the small poetry publisher K...
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Saturnaaaaalia

Sina Dell’Anno

The rebellion of the signifiers against their semantic taming OPEN
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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
On Trees, Neophytes, and Druids

Damian Christinger, Monica Ursina Jäger

The beech, the opponent of the druids, should be disestablished! OPEN
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»Self-censorship is the worst.«

»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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Part Dieu. The Painting of Francisco Sierra

Michael Heitz

Part Dieu. The Painting of Francisco Sierra

You have to imagine Francisco Sierra as a cheerful painter.

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