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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Junk Philology. An Anti-Commentary

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

whole blocks of avenues in all directions | The verse snaps tight around the dynamic contrast of geometric uniformity and omni-directional spread, with north-south avenue grids stretched across the crest of human sound. From solid blocks to liquid (“we got a drink”) to gas “(As if the fog lifted”): the metamorphosis of phase-states. But when I read BLOCKS, I hear Lil Wayne: “tha block is hot, tha block is hot… Dodging cops and burning blocks.” And I remember the boys...

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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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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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Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? 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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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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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

minima oeconomica

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« Sur les théâtres de l’économie financière internationale, assiste-t-on à un spectacle relevant de la pure déraison ? »

Dans un contexte de crise financière omniprésente et durablement installée, Joseph Vogl interroge le système capitaliste, ses arcanes, ses modes de fonctionnement, la manière dont il se perpétue. Censé reposer sur une confiance multilatérale, le système des marchés est en réalité traversé d’inquiétude et d’instabilité. Ce qu’on définit comme ses...

Joseph Vogl

Le spectre du capital

Monograph

« C'est le médecin qui a inoculé la maladie à son patient. »

L’affirmation selon laquelle la crise des marchés financiers implique une crise des sciences économiques est presque devenue un lieu commun : le libéralisme des marchés et la théorie des « marchés efficaces » auraient échoué et l’économie orthodoxe n’aurait créé aucun dispositif pour appréhender les « marchés sauvages » qui,...

Hyman P. Minsky

L'hypothèse d'instabilité financière

Monograph

Gedanken zu Kredit und Krise

Krise – kaum ein Begriff hat in jüngster Zeit eine solche Konjunktur erlebt, doch kann die inflationäre Rede von Banken- und Finanzkrise kaum darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der globale ökonomische Kollaps mehr untergraben hat als unser Vertrauen in den Markt allein: Wir erleben derzeit eine veritable Glaubenskrise, die das Wertesystem der...

Samuel Weber

Geld ist Zeit

Monograph

Wert, Tausch und menschliches Handeln

Wenn wir keine kühl kalkulierenden Wesen sind, die für sich selbst das Maximum an Macht, Vergnügen und materiellem Wohlstand zu akkumulieren versuchen, was sind wir dann?

David Graeber

Die falsche Münze unserer Träume

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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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Michele Pedrazzi

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza?

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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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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

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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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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Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans

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

The Architecture of Disaster

Ines Weizman, Eyal Weizman

Before & After

How can the gap between images become a site of critical counter-reading rather than a symbol of erasure?

History is increasingly presented as a series of catastrophes. The most common mode of this presentation is the before-and-after image—a juxtaposition of two photographs of the same place, at different times, before and after an event has taken its toll. Buildings seen intact in a “before” photograph have been destroyed in the one “after.” Neighborhoods bustling with activity in one image are in ruins or under a layer of foulwater in the next. Deforestations, contaminations, melting icebergs and drying rivers...