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We need more planetary dimensions!
We need more planetary dimensions!

Rosi Braidotti

Nomadic Subjects

The project of feminist nomadism for a European thinker implies a relationship to multiple languages.

My life-long engagement in the project of nomadic subjectivity rests on a specific cartography of our globalised times, marked by large-scale and technologically-mediated transformations of our social, economic and political universes. I start from the assumption that, as a result of these upheavals, traditional forms of self-representation, familiar cultural points of reference and age-old habits of thought are being re-composed, albeit in contradictory ways. Our historical context is marked by the schizoid structure of technology-driven advanced capitalism, as Deleuze and Guattari...
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  • identity
  • Europe
  • capitalism
  • globalization
  • feminism
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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

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

Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall. ABO
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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From xenolinguistics to cephalo­pods

From xenolinguistics to cephalo­pods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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  • communication
  • utopia
  • linguistics
  • science fiction
  • communication media
  • semiotics and semiology
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Nothing is at home

Nothing is at home

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins.

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  • aesthetics
  • phenomenology
  • Modernism
  • art theory
  • art
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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.): Breaking Grounds
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Hauke Branding (ed.), Julian Volz (ed.): Radical Desires
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Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

Anthology

Revolutionen der Literaturwissenschaft 1966–1971

Revolutionen finden (auch) in Worten statt: Sätze werden gewendet, in neue Bedeutungen gekehrt, setzen Getrenntes in überraschende Verbindungen, mit weitreichenden Folgen. Rückblickend bescherte die Zeit um 1968 auch der Literaturwissenschaft eine große Wende, von der sie bis heute zehrt. Mit der großen Konferenz in Baltimore 1966 wurde der französische Strukturalismus...

Thomas Fries (ed.), Sandro Zanetti (ed.)

Revolutionen der Literaturwissenschaft 1966–1971

Monograph

Nuancierungen zum Werk Robert Walsers

Seit Robert Musils Einschätzung, dass es sich bei Franz ­Kafka um einen Spezialfall des Typus Robert Walser handele, hat es zahlreiche Versuche gegeben, Walsers Schreiben in den ­Kanon moderner Literatur einzugliedern. Sein Status des Außen­seiters und die erfolglos verlaufende schriftstellerische Karriere, die in der Anstalt Herisau ihr tragisches Ende fand,...

Jörg Kreienbrock

Kleiner. Feiner. Leichter

Monograph

Poetik eines Tempus

Erzählen im Präsens hat eine inzwischen mehr als hundertjährige Geschichte, in deren wechselvollem Verlauf ein bisher unerforschter literarischer Kosmos entstanden ist. Ausschließlich im Präsens verfasste literarische Prosa findet sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zunächst in inneren Monologen und in den avantgardistischen Faktographien. Die nihilistischen Gesten der Avantgarden werden dann...

Armen Avanessian, Anke Hennig

Präsens

Anthology

Zur Arbeit am Nicht-Wissen

Diese Ausgabe des Zürcher Jahrbuchs für Wissensgeschichte zum Thema Nicht-Wissen geht einer produktiven Grenzziehung nach. Der Unterschied von Dogma und Häresie, die Trennung zwischen Expertenwissen und Laienglauben, das Verhältnis von Validierung und Entwertung sowie die wechselseitige Abhängigkeit von Kanonisierungs- und Stigmatisierungsprozessen – sie alle betreffen jene Differenz, mit der Akteure...

David Gugerli (ed.), Michael Hagner (ed.), Philipp Sarasin (ed.), Jakob Tanner (ed.)

Nach Feierabend 2009

Topics
  • minima oeconomica

    minima oeconomica

    Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung

    • financial markets
    • economics
    • discourse history
    • economy
    • financial crisis
    • economization
  • Autofiction—Metafiction

    Autofiction—Metafiction

    • Theory of fiction
    • autofiction
    • fiction
    • memory
    • autobiography
  • Observing the Spectator

    Observing the Spectator

    • gaze
    • mirror
    • optical illusion
    • observer
  • Choreographing multitudes

    Choreographing multitudes

    • social networks
    • protest movements
    • crowd psychology
    • crowd
    • swarm model
    • social movements
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Humanity is a metahuman concept.

Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

Humanity is a metahuman concept.

We are bodies. It makes no sense to debate this.

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  • re-enactment
  • realism
  • transhumanism
  • artistic practice
  • postmodernism
  • art theory
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Saturnaaaaalia

Sina Dell’Anno

Saturnaaaaalia

The rebellion of the signifiers against their semantic taming

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Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream 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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The Disobedience of the Word

Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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Donatien Mary, Ronan de Calan: The Ghost of Karl Marx
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Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive
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Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.): String Figures
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Claus Pias (ed.): Cybernetics
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Zairong Xiang (ed.): minor cosmopolitan
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»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«
»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«

Kati Kroß

Christoph Schlingensief's »Freakstars 3000«

However, the discussions about Schlingensief’s film were sparked by the same, or similar, questions as in the case of Disabled Theater: have the performers been exposed? Have they been declared incompetent, or ridiculed?

When non-disabled artists such as Jérôme Bel or Christoph Schlingensief in their productions work with actors who, in hegemonic discourse, are referred to as disabled, they almost invariably face criticism over the exploitation and voyeuristic exhibition of these people. Bel’s Disabled Theater anticipated such reservations and took a good deal of wind out of its critics’ sails by having the performers themselves raise these issues on stage and report on their families’ reactions to the piece. Nevertheless, the question whether...
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  • performing arts
  • identity
  • disability studies
  • aesthetics
  • Jérôme Bel
Current Texts

Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟ OPEN
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Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο; OPEN
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Zoran Terzić

Everything new is a pose in the alcoves of capital

In the post-avant-garde era we’re all ­either in the vanguard or asleep in the lap of capital. In this sense everybody ­ is avant-garde—or nobody. OPEN
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Based on a brilliant trick

Barbara Basting

Based on a brilliant trick

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure.

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Is drama out cold? Is theatre?

Alexander García Düttmann

Is drama out cold? Is theatre?

Can contemporary theatre recognize itself in the boxing ring so that its fist, the fist of the past, strikes a forceful and violent blow?

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  • Alain Badiou
  • theatre / drama
  • contemporary art
  • theatre studies
  • anarchy
  • ceremony
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Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.): Power of Material – Politics of Materiality
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Francesco Guercio (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: The Philosophy of Nietzsche
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Nicolas Schneider (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: Tomorrow the Manifold
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Claus Pias (ed.): Cybernetics
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Clémentine Deliss (ed.), Yvette Mutumba (ed.), ...: Foreign Exchange
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Roberto Esposito: Communitas
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