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A dialogue that doesn’t cover up its traces

David Graeber

Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Anarchism is about the possibility of a crowd becoming smarter.

There’s endless literature on the mob or “the madness of crowds”, and most people do assume that any kind of crowd is necessarily going to be, collectively, stupider than any one of the individuals that make it up. That’s why most people accept the legitimacy of authoritarian leadership. If this were really true, it stands to reason that if you took even any one random person out of the crowd and made that person dictator, the crowd would make better...

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anarchy
political theory
anarchism
community
resistance

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Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” 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

Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

“If you love your family, you want family abolition for them!” ABO DE

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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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

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 in a circularity that leaves the drawing of boundaries and raising of barriers solely to programming, instead of restoring them to our ethical conscience and understanding of what the social could mean today. The machine, by contrast, remains alien to any mechanical limitation—just as its inability to decide lies in the impossibility of self-calculation. The nucleus of digital culture should instead be sought where the cultural of culture is located:...

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From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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communication media
linguistics
science fiction
communication
semiotics and semiology
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Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

The Subject of Capitalism

Monograph

Zur Herrschaft der Finanzialisierung

Seit dem Zusammenbruch der Banken im Jahr 2008 scheint der Kapitalismus in eine Phase anhaltender Stagnation sowie geopolitischer und monetärer Instabilität eingetreten zu sein. Das Szenario, das sich vor unseren Augen abspielt, lässt an eine Art »Sozialismus des Kapitals« denken: Der Staat, der die Bedürfnisse der »Finanzsowjets« sichert, erlegt der...

Christian Marazzi

Sozialismus des Kapitals

Monograph

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Matthew Weiner’s series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen’s claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an...

Elisabeth Bronfen

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Monograph

Von der Diktatur des Marktes über die Gesellschaft

Ein eindringliches, bestens informiertes und wichtiges Buch. Christian Marazzi liefert in Verbranntes Geld eine innovative Analyse der Finanzökonomie, die heute die Wirtschaftskreisläufe in ihrer Gesamtheit durchdringt. Die globale Krise des Finanzkapitalismus ist nicht etwa eine unproduktive oder parasitäre Abweichung auf dem Weg zu mehr Wachstum. Im Gegenteil, es offenbart sich...

Christian Marazzi

Verbranntes Geld

Anthology

The Question of Cohabitation

What is the current state of the subject and what about the status of its self-image? In contemporary discourses we... OPEN
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Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.)

Fragile Identities

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Autofiction—Metafiction
- Theory of fiction
- autofiction
- autobiography
- memory
- fiction
minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- economy
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- economization
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- financial crisis
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»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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film
Evil
cinema
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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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Black Panther is an American, not an African story

A.K. Kaiza

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. OPEN
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Malte Fabian Rauch

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?” ABO

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

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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Shusha Niederberger (ed.), Cornelia Sollfrank (ed.), ...: Aesthetics of the Commons

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

Mathias Denecke (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation

Erich Hörl (ed.), Nelly Y. Pinkrah (ed.), ...: Critique and the Digital

Photographs tend to suggest infinity

Siegfried Kracauer

The Photographic Approach (1951)

Photographs evoke a response in which our sense of beauty and our desire for knowledge interpenetrate.

The photographic approach – that is, the effort to utilize the inherent abilities of the camera – is responsible for the particular nature of photographs. In the days of Zola and the Impressionists, the properties of photographs were commonly held to be the hallmarks of art in general; but no sooner did painting and literature break away from realism than these properties assumed an exclusive character. Since they depend upon techniques peculiar to the medium, they have remained stable throughout its evolution....

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