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Time Probe Zero Synthesis

DIAPHANES MAGAZINE No. 3

When to switch off? What to look for? How to write? Which lines to draw? Whence self-recognition? DIAPHANES 3—TIME PROBE ZERO SYNTHESIS

Where is the present when the computer pulses at the wrist every day, when we’re globally interconnected in real time but don’t take in our selves for a single moment, just bits and pieces, just snatching a few intensities, when neurons plus communication already makes a consciousness? Is it nothing but a hallucination, in permanent crisis? Does it stand still, get wider, poorer? How does the past change when systems record every second, saving them for the right moment or for...

contemporary art
discourse
art
contemporary literature
contemporary culture

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Dodie Bellamy

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats. OPEN
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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? 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

Diane Williams

How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.” ABO DE

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A. L. Kennedy

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first…

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Kim Gordon

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

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Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Das Prequel zur legendären Isaac-Sidel-Serie

Isaac Sidel, Deputy Chief Inspector mit unorthodoxen Methoden, herrscht über das härteste Pflaster New Yorks wie ein Patriarch. Babyhuren, marodierende...

Jerome Charyn

Marilyn the Wild

Monograph

Südöstlich der Insel. Reisenotizen

James Agee durchwandert schreibend Brooklyn: von den alten Stadtteilen im Nordwesten mit ihren Backsteinhäusern über die Brooklyn Bridge und durch...

James Agee

Brooklyn ist

Monograph

Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.

Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des...

James Agee

Der Tramp und die Bombe

Monograph

Der zweite Dewey-Decimal-Roman

Dewey Decimal, über den weder wir noch er selbst allzu viel wissen, schießt sich im zweiten Band der Trilogie weiter...

Nathan Larson

Boogie Man

Topics

Autofiction—Metafiction
- memory
- autobiography
- autofiction
- Theory of fiction
- fiction

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Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο;

Ξένος extraneus του έξω όχι του μέσα (intraneus) όχι της οικίας unheimlich όχι του heim όχι της εστίας της άλλης πλευράς της πόρτας – fores, foreigner όχι υπερβολικά στον ρυθμό, odd όχι κανονικός όχι συνήθης σπάνιος ιδιάζων seltsam παράξενος besherat γενναίος κομψός απρόβλεπτος στραβός verschroben

λοξός αναπάντεχος εξαιρετικός εκπληκτικός

Είναι εκπληκτικό πόσες λέξεις εκφράσεις τρόπους διαφορετικούς έχουμε για να μιλήσουμε για τον παράξενο ξένο τον ausländer τον έξω από τη χώρα και όχι «pays avec nous» όπως λέγαμε κάποτε στη Γαλλία «c’est un pays à moi» για να πούμε κάποιος από το χωριό μου τη γειτονιά μου την περιοχή μου την πατρίδα μου

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Johannes Binotto

Language can never be private

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed.

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theatre / drama
gender
feminism
subjectification
Shakespeare
language

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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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Pierre Guyotat

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G. OPEN
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Stephen Barber

Twenty-four hours in state of unconsciousness

Now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself… ABO

Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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Books

Yann Le Bras, Jean Paul Mongin: The Death of Socrates

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

Frédéric Morlot, Anne-Margot Ramstein: Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas

Miriam Henke, Jérôme Meyer-Bisch: Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon

Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it.

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

Why this past? Why is this past mine? A past which I did not even know?

"This is a book about the power that a past War holds over a German growing up in the 1950s and 1960s: born too late to see that war and too early to forget it. The narrative shows how painfully public events — the shadows, rather, of events gone by — intrude upon a life and shape it. The English translation appears at a moment when most of the key issues have radically changed. Germany has signed what amounts to a...