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"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...

archive
1950s
20th century
biography
1930s

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

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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Artur Zmijewski

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.” OPEN
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»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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Video art
performance art
human–animal communication
identity

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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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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Last Writings of Antonin Artaud

Anna Kipke (ed.), Iryna Kovalenko (ed.), ...: Drafts in Action

Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

Thomas Köck: un gran casino (ta pissà adoss l’ürocc)

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

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...

Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)

Noch einmal anders

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...

Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)

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Monograph

One plus one equals other

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

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

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Autofiction—Metafiction
- autofiction
- fiction
- Theory of fiction
- memory
- autobiography
Color and meaning
Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?
- image and imagery
- chromatics / colour science
- color
- semiotics and semiology
- monochrome
Observing the Spectator
- observer
- gaze
- mirror
- optical illusion
The Subject of Capitalism
- cognitive capital
- migration
- subjectification
- capitalism

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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

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

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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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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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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. ABO

Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? 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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Alena Lepishava (ed.), Zmicier Vishniou (ed.), ...: НЕТУТЭЙШЫЯ: REVERSION

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

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira: Invented Skins

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

Kerstin Stakemeier

Crisis and Materiality in Art

Against all earlier hopes, the survival of mankind in and after the modern industrial age has turned out not to be automatable.

Against all earlier hopes, the survival of mankind in and after the modern industrial age has turned out not to be automatable. On the contrary, it entirely depends on the continued active restoration of its material living conditions. Gilbert Simondon describes this connection between humans and their machines in the 1950s in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects as a tragically truncated, restricted, and limiting way of living for both because, “man’s alienation vis à vis the machine...

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