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Punk’s raptures are mystical.

Simon Critchley

Learning to Eat Time with One’s Ears

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.

Philology often seems concerned with tracing origins and identifying true sources as a way of sweeping away the penumbrae of cultural ornamentation and exfoliating the accumulated dead skin of the past that hardens into decadence, at once institutional and intellectual. Its spirit is Lutheran, or Nietzschean, which amounts to the same thing when you think about it a little. So can it be with punk, which is usually reduced to a series of flattened clichés about bondage trousers, dyed hair...

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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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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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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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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contemporary art
documenta
political aesthetics
propaganda
gift
migration
National Socialism
concentration camp
Poland
ethics

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Autofiction—Metafiction

Monograph

Das Protokoll einer im Überleben verlorenen Kindheit

Der Vater, Rabbiner in der Rue Ordener in Paris, der von der Gestapo abgeholt und in Auschwitz ermordet wird; die Mutter, der es gelingt, sich und die sechs Kinder an verschiedenen Orten versteckt zu halten; Sarah, die sich weigert, anderes zu sich zu nehmen als koscheres Essen, die die rettende...

Sarah Kofman

Rue Ordener, Rue Labat

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Curriculum Vitae in Pictures

Das Fotobuch »Kracauer. Fotoarchiv« zeigt bisher unbekannte fotografische Materialien aus dem Nachlass des Soziologen, Feuilletonisten und Filmtheoretikers Siegfried Kracauer: Portraits,...

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

Monograph

“Obsessed with buffering”

In this essay, based on a talk he gave in Zurich, award-winning British novelist Tom McCarthy ("Remainder", "C", "Satin Island")... ABO

Tom McCarthy

Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

Monograph

La littérature est un voyage de découverte

Tom Bishop a, pendant plus de soixante ans, contribué à définir les échanges littéraires, philosophiques, culturels, artistiques, mais aussi politiques entre Paris et New York. Comme professeur et directeur du Centre de Civilisation et de Culture Françaises à New York University, il a fait de l'institution de Washington Square l'un...

Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau

La littérature est un voyage de découverte

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The Subject of Capitalism
- migration
- capitalism
- cognitive capital
- subjectification
minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- financial markets
- economization
- financial crisis
- discourse history
- economy
- economics

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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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»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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contemporary art
Evil

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream OPEN
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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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Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

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

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

Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

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

Sami Khatib (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form

The Moses complex’s place is exile.

Ute Holl

Introduction

The Moses complex is complex, because its topological space is differentiated as a relationship of ratios, resonances, and interferences.

The unkind and inhuman God of Moses in Exodus reveals himself as a terrifying media agent. This is why the Moses figure insistently returns in the arts and sciences of the twentieth century. It corresponds to the fact that the media initially remain concealed when new laws come in with them. When Moses climbs the mountain, the tablets on which the caesuras of writing will turn out to be there already, while the people are still camping in the desert,...

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