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The Dance of All Things

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...

Movements of Air

“The excessive leaps of our gaseous form around a halt...”

It would be futile to resist the feeling that the marvelous curls of smoke, photographed by Étienne-Jules Marey between 1899 and 1901, first elicit from us. We have the impression of witnessing a pure beauty in the process of making, unmaking, and remaking itself incessantly before our eyes. It is a supreme flow—images of flow and a flow of images all at once—from which approximately fifty instants have been randomly “drawn,” all formed differently and likewise admirable. Such simple beauty...

History of photography
history of media
artistic research
history of science
photography

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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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Artur Zmijewski

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

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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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performance art
human–animal communication
identity
Video art

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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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THINK ART? THINK ART!

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

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

Monograph

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

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

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Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

The key to survival will lay in female hands.

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colonialism
feminism
body
ritual
performance
spiritism
ceremony
Africa

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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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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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Ornamentation is the body of our thought

Elena Vogman

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

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” 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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Books

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

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...: Movements of Air

Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (ed.), Rebecca Hanna John (ed.), ...: On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

Sara Alonso Gómez (ed.), Isabel J. Piniella Grillet (ed.), ...: NO Rhetoric(s)

Wolfgang Brückle (ed.), Fred Truniger (ed.): Display, Distribute, Disrupt

»Self-censorship is the worst.«

Lars von Trier in Conversation with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem & Raphaëlle Milone

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

We land in Copenhagen after only an hour’s sleep the previous night. We travel a long way by subway to a residential area on the edge of the city: large houses with gardens and woodland, almost no one around. We finally find the address we’ve been given. We approach the house through the garden, and we’re immediately in a film by Lars von Trier: a black limousine, a small shack that might be an office with a computer and piles...

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cinema
contemporary art
film d'auteur
Evil
film

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Sandra Frimmel

What does it mean? ABO DE

Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο; OPEN
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Peter Ott

Around 2007 I had the idea of making a feature film about a German woman who is kidnapped in Iraq. It was supposed to be a chamber piece, shot on two intradiegetic cameras. ABO DE

Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

We are bodies. It makes no sense to debate this. OPEN
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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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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

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.

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