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"Curriculum Vitae in Pictures“

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

The book tells the story of Lili and Siegfried Kracauer’s close working relationship – from the early 1930s following their marriage in Germany, to exile in Paris and the war and post-war years in the USA.

Kracauer. Photographic Archive presents largely unknown material from the estate of the German-American theorist of film and photography, Siegfried Kracauer and his wife and assistant Elisabeth, known as Lili. The single and group portraits, still lifes, street scenes and landscapes collected in this book all come from the estate of Siegfried Kracauer. Published here for the first time, they are an extensive and representative selection from the enlargements, contact sheets and rolls of film originally archived by Lili Kracauer. With...

1950s
archive
1930s
20th century
biography

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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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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

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

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

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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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

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

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A.K. Kaiza

Black Panther is an American, not an African story

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.

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Observing the Spectator

Anthology

Involving the Beholder

The invention of depicting figures participating in an event — nameless bystanders, beholders, and onlookers — marks an important change in the ways artists addressed the beholder of the artworks themselves. This shift speaks to a significant transformation of the relationship between images and their audience. The public in the...

Beate Fricke (ed.), Urte Krass (ed.)

The Public in the Picture / Das Publikum im Bild

Anthology

Kunst und Gesellschaft

Die Ausstellung ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem der erfolgreichsten kulturellen Ereignisse avanciert. So zumindest scheint es angesichts der Vielzahl neuer Museumsbauten, der globalen Verbreitung sogenannter Biennalen und dem zunehmenden Maß an medialer und diskursiver Aufmerksamkeit, das der bildenden Kunst zuteil wird. Worin aber gründet dieser Erfolg? Welche gesellschaftliche...

Carolin Meister (ed.), Dorothea von Hantelmann (ed.)

Die Ausstellung

Anthology

Zu Jacques Lacans Bildtheorie

»Weil das Bild jener Schein ist, der behauptet, er sei das, was den Schein gibt, steht Platon auf gegen die Malerei als eine Aktivität, die mit der seinen rivalisiert. Dieses andere ist das ›klein a‹, um das ein Kampf geführt wird, dessen Seele die Augentäuschung ist.« (Jacques Lacan) Der materialreiche Band...

Claudia Blümle (ed.), Anne von der Heiden (ed.)

Blickzähmung und Augentäuschung

Anthology

Das Gedächtnis des Auges in Kunst und Wissenschaft

Nachbilder sind optische Phänomene, mit denen das Sehen sich selbst in den Blick nimmt. Seit der Empirismus im 18. Jahrhundert die Subjektivität der Wahrnehmung erschloss, traktierten Wissenschaftler, Künstler und Philosophen ihre Augen, um sie nicht als Empfänger, sondern als Erzeuger von Licht- und Farbphänomenen zu erfahren. Als im buchstäblichen Sinne verkörperte...

Werner Busch (ed.), Carolin Meister (ed.)

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minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- economics
- economization
- financial crisis
- economy
- financial markets
- discourse history
Choreographing multitudes
- crowd psychology
- social networks
- swarm model
- social movements
- protest movements
- crowd
The Subject of Capitalism
- capitalism
- subjectification
- cognitive capital
- migration
Wissen-Nicht-Wissen
- potentiality
- poetology of knowledge
- literary studies
- astonishment
- idleness
- experiment
- ignorance and non-knowledge
- poetics
- epistemology
- history of knowledge

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Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟

Etrange (غریب) در زبان فرانسوی از ریشه لاتین extraneus به معنای «خارجی» در برابر داخلی intraneus است. آنچه از خانه نیست unheimlich (امر غریب) از heim (خانه) نیست از منزل نیست در طرف دیگر دروازه fores است foreigner (خارجی)، خارج از ضرب و زیادی است odd (زاید) ناهنجار نامعمول نادر کمیاب تکی است seltsam (عجیب) عجیب و غریب besherat رشید ظریف پراوهام خمیده‌‌ verschroben (بد خو) خمیده شگفت‌ آور خارق‌ العاده حیرت‌ انگیز

غنای زبان امری غریب است در کلماتی که به نحوی حولِ مفهومِ غریبِ خارجی ausländer شکل گرفته اند خارج از کشور «هم‌‌ کشور ما» همانگونه که پیش‌ تر در فرانسه می‌ گفتیم «این کشور من است» برای اشاره به کسی از روستای من محله‌ ی من استان من ولایت من

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Ines Kleesattel

Blood!

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning.

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body
painting
gender
art history
subjectification
gaze
feminism

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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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Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Each showroom has a couple of “managers”.

Do I really know the person I’ve watched every day on screen for months? I know many things, like where he is, where he comes from, what his home looks like, when he gets up and sleeps, etc. But do I really know him? ABO DE

Books

Francesco Guercio (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: The Philosophy of Nietzsche

Nicolas Schneider (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: Reading Marx

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

David Graeber: Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (ed.), Rebecca Hanna John (ed.), ...: On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

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...