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Haifa’s architectural modernism

Ines Weizman synchronises different narratives that have been swept away by the chaotic hurricanes of time.

Israel
Middle East
history of architecture
memory

Fiction

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

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

post-war generation
post-war period
youth
autobiography
primal scene
identity
past
homosexuality
migration
1968
trauma
National Socialism
childhood
emigration
memory

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Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

This issue explores practices of human and non-human substitution.

mother figure
motherhood
body
contemporary art
gender
poetry

Humanities

Muriel Fischer (ed.), Sandra Frimmel (ed.), ...

The Power of Narratives in Propaganda

Narratives are the enduring stars of propaganda and disinformation.

Russia
analytics of power
intelligence sercive
propaganda

Magazine

Surrogacies

Myths and visions of motherhood and fathering, brings together artistic and theoretical positions on reproduction and communication, gender and genus, addressing and conception.

aesthetics
father figure
contemporary art
feminism
mother figure
body
gender
motherhood
queer theory

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Eliana Hernández-Pachón: Suspended Waters

Cristina Rivera Garza: De-Blading the Knife

Kevin B. Lee (ed.), Marine de Dardel (ed.), ...: The Future of Reality

Muriel Fischer (ed.), Sandra Frimmel (ed.), ...: Global Narratives of Russian Disinformation

Sigrid Adorf (ed.), Sønke Gau (ed.), ...: going public.

Observing the Spectator

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The Moving Spectator in Medieval Italian Art

This essay traces the importance of monumental art in Erwin Panofsky’s evolution of perspectival space by critically analyzing his concept of a Raumkasten (»space-box«). In Panofsky’s 1920s work, the teleological development between bodies and space from the 11th to the 14th centuries plays a crucial role in the history of...

Christopher Lakey

From Place to Space

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The Eye and the Gaze: The phenomenon of viewership in Archaic and Classical Greek painting

The contribution focusses on how images from the 8th to the 5th century address the issue of looking and watching. The phenomenon of the specific representation of the viewer (and viewers) in the image is related to the following aspects: (1) the modes of impression of figurative elements and the...

Annette Haug

Das Auge und der Blick

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The Installation of the Eye: Sandro Botticelli's Adorazioni and the Arrival of the Beholder in Fifteenth-Century Painting

Like only few other pictorial themes in Western art, the Adoration of the Magi, rather than presenting a mere depiction of the event, manufactures an image of the experience of seeing itself. The great number of Adorazioni painted by Sandro Botticelli bespeak the process in which this type of seeing...

Christiane Hille

Training the Eye

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Public Space and Public Audience in the Illustrated Manuscripts of al-Hariri's »Maqâmât«

Constitutive of the 50 equally composed stories of al-Hariri’s »Maqâmât« (literally »gathering, convention«) is a multitudinous, mostly anonymous audience. Its main character is the gifted speaker Abu Said, who, more often than not, makes surreptitiously a living from his speeches and sermons to people of diverse social strata. While the...

Andrea Lermer

Öffentlicher Raum und Publikum in den Illustrationen der »Maqâmât« al-Hariris im 13. Jahrhundert

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them…

“So many egoists call themselves artists,” Rimbaud wrote to Paul Demeny on May 15, 1871. Even though that is not always obvious, ‘I’, the first person, is the most unknown person, a mystery that is constantly moving towards the other two, the second and third persons, a series of unfoldings and smatterings that eventually gelled as ‘Je est un autre’. That is why ‘apocryphal’ is a literarily irrelevant concept and ‘pseudo’ a symptom, the very proof that life, writing, is made up of echoes, which means that intrusions and thefts (Borges also discusses them) will always be the daily bread of those who write.

Words from others, words taken out of place and mutilated: here are the alms of time, that squanderer’s sole kindness. And so many others, mostly others who wrote, and many other pages, all of them apocryphal, all of them echoes, reflections. All this flows together into—two centuries...

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Sina Dell’Anno

The Disobedience of the Word

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

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Current Texts

Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

“If you love your family, you want family abolition for them!” ABO DE

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” 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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Artur Zmijewski

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.” OPEN
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Arts

Reality, No More?

Marine de Dardel (ed.), Kevin B. Lee (ed.), ...

The Future of Reality

“Reality is all we have to love. There is nothing else.” John Berger

Everyday life without audiovisual technologies is no longer imaginable. How do we experience reality in the age of generative AI, algorithmic media, and the omnipresence of digital platforms? How does cinema—and all audiovisual media— construct, challenge and reimagine reality in times of ecological, political, and technological transformation?

sound
film
contemporary art
art

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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Eric Baudelaire

We cannot assume that all government/terrorist interactions will take the form of a two-person zero-sum game. OPEN
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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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Arts

»This is not my blood.«

What is the problem with solutions? Blind or deaf? Which faith? What knowledge? Duchamp or Warhol? East or west?

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identity
human–animal communication
Video art
performance art

Arts

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

The key to survival will lay in female hands.

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colonialism
ritual
spiritism
Africa
ceremony
feminism
body
performance

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Books

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

Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

Jens Andermann (ed.), Lisa Blackmore (ed.), ...: Natura: Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape

Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), ...: The Cube and the Face

Mathilde Arnoux (ed.), Maria Bremer (ed.): Westkunst, 1981

Fiction

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

A. L. Kennedy

What is an Author?

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

The one who takes the temperature of widespread amphetamine dreams, who carves out screaming headlines to turn up the heat. The one who makes every morning a dose of paranoia, an uptick of fathomless rage. When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first, taking words and dipping them in shit, upending meanings and rewriting sanity. The one who writes the speeches for the tiny and furious men. The one who frames every demand, every statement...

ABO DE FR

Fiction

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

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

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

Jochen Thermann

I really should not have hired him…

Waldemar—well, that was not actually his name… ABO DE FR

Fiction

Dodie Bellamy

All that pent up terror and rage

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

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Fiction

Pierre Guyotat

The matrix for »Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats«

“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.

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war experience
war

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Discourse

Digital disrupture

Dieter Mersch

Digital Criticism

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...

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Discourse

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Ines Kleesattel

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning. 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

Tom McCarthy

The ironic self-awareness of the poet can only be that of his own inauthenticity, repeated or fed back into itself at increasingly conscious levels, and ‘to know inauthenticity is not the same as to be authentic’. ABO DE

Discourse

Ute Holl

Dream, Clouds, Off, Exile

“Communism will be when we understand something of love.”

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monotheism
exile
Karl Marx
film
communism

Discourse

Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

ABO DE FR

Authors

Books

Shusha Niederberger (ed.), Cornelia Sollfrank (ed.), ...: Aesthetics of the Commons

Alexander Kluge, Joseph Vogl: Soll und Haben

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud 1937 Apocalypse

Gertrud Koch: Breaking Bad, Breaking Out, Breaking Even

Humanities

Aesthetic Practices in the Global South

Liliana Gómez (ed.)

Performing Human Rights

How arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds.

This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...