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»The camera is my »exosomatic extension‹.«
»The camera is my »exosomatic extension‹.«

Gertrud Koch, Michael Lüthy, ...

A Walk With Allan Sekula Through His Exhibition

Gertrud Koch: We would like to start by discussing the different narrative forms you have chosen for the titles of your series, like »story«, »fable« or »tale«: how would you differentiate between stories and fables, and what autobiographical narratives are involved here? Is it a kind of metanarrative, is it a composing of different narrative moments?
   Allan Sekula: Very often my titling a particular work has an idiomatic logic: Fish Story has a vernacular resonance, particularly in American English where a...
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  • photography
  • exhibition
  • memory
  • Allan Sekula
  • fiction
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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

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

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  • science fiction
  • utopia
  • communication
  • communication media
  • semiotics and semiology
  • linguistics

 

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  • Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    • potentiality
    • literary studies
    • experiment
    • poetics
    • poetology of knowledge
    • ignorance and non-knowledge
    • idleness
    • epistemology
    • astonishment
    • history of knowledge
  • The Subject of Capitalism

    The Subject of Capitalism

    • migration
    • subjectification
    • cognitive capital
    • capitalism
  • Choreographing multitudes

    Choreographing multitudes

    • swarm model
    • social movements
    • crowd psychology
    • protest movements
    • social networks
    • crowd
  • Color and meaning

    Color and meaning

    Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?

    • chromatics / colour science
    • semiotics and semiology
    • monochrome
    • image and imagery
    • color
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Zoran Terzić

Everything new is a pose in the alcoves of capital

In the late nineteenth century Alfred Jarry created a prototype of the modern wannabe in his pot-bellied Père Ubu, a figure that raises entitlement to a high art. Ubu doesn’t want to be king; others urge him to it. But he is also the others. And when he does become king, CEO, or US president, he doesn’t know what it means, or if it means anything at all. He just states his claim. And so he shimmies from statement to power. And having obtained power, Ubu decerebrates the world, exposing the grounds for groundlessness, to paraphrase Ortega y Gasset. Ubu is a tautomaniac, that is, he can be explained in his own terms and is thus always in the right (being in the right is all he is). He needs no proof, but on the contrary wants “to turn the absurd into the highest power of thought” (Deleuze & Guattari)....

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Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Tobias Harks (ed.), Sebastian Vehlken (ed.)

Neighborhood Technologies

Whether our contemporary society and culture may be characterized by a mere preoccupation with concepts of space or a predominant fixation on the dynamics of time – with the speculative power of world-wide financial markets and their respective financial tools (e.g., micro-trading) and the increasing penetration of scientific research by computational tools like computer simulations and their implications for a futurologic governmental style (e.g., in fields like climate research or pre-emption) as only two protruding pillars: The time-critical dynamics of...
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  • mathematics
  • modeling
  • biology
  • media technique
  • algorithms
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Humanity is a metahuman concept.

Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

Humanity is a metahuman concept.

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