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Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

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

poetry
body
mother figure
motherhood
contemporary art
gender

Fiction

Jean Paul Mongin, François Schwoebel

Of what can I be truly certain?

dream
epistemology
doubt
mind-body problem
young readers
subjectivity
certainty
religion
thinking
Descartes

Discourse

Haifa’s architectural modernism

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

Middle East
memory
history of architecture
Israel

Humanities

Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.)

A non-Western way of thinking

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs

history of technology
game / play
theory of science
cultural history
theory construction
ethnology

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.

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

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Maaza Mengiste: Of Interest to the General Public

Karin Gludovatz, Matthias Warstat, ...: Intervenierende Künste

Eva Backhaus (ed.), Grit Dommes (ed.), ...: Dynamics of the Intransitive

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.): Breaking Grounds

Autofiction—Metafiction

Monograph

»Ich bin nicht gut im Vergessen. Ich kann es überhaupt nicht«

Ein junger Deutscher in den sechziger Jahren schreibt hier, heimgesucht von einer übergroßen Sensibilität für die Allgegenwart der Vergangenheit. Geradezu körperlich trägt er in seiner eigenen Person die Unfähigkeit aus, zu vergessen, was er selbst nicht bewusst erlebt hat: Krieg und Vernichtung. Die stark autobiographisch geprägte Erzählung folgt den zahlreichen...

Reiner Schürmann

Ursprünge

Article

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

Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it. Rocked by events which I didn’t experience.

Reiner Schürmann

How I Learned to Clench My Fists

Monograph

Curriculum Vitae in Pictures

Das Fotobuch »Kracauer. Fotoarchiv« zeigt bisher unbekannte fotografische Materialien aus dem Nachlass des Soziologen, Feuilletonisten und Filmtheoretikers Siegfried Kracauer: Portraits,...

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

Monograph

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?

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

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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Current Texts

»Self-censorship is the worst.«

»Three hundred people left The House that Jack Built. I think that’s very good, and it wasn’t Cannes.«

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film d'auteur
Evil
cinema
film
contemporary art

Current Texts

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

How about some string?

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

Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

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

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Arts

Why the Backwards Smile?

Reverse Joy

To what extent can a revolution of the inner world impact the external, material world surrounding us?

Reverse Joy looks at the role of mysticism in the perpetual protest movement at the heart of the Shi’a faith for its radical reconsideration of history and justice. Inserting oneself, flesh and faith, into the events that transpired thirteen centuries ago; the collapse of traditional understandings of time; the reversal of the roles of men and women; and joy through mourning are only some of the topics discussed in this essay. Though each one of them demands an equally elastic...

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Arts

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

However convincingly space agencies justify the enormous budgets, there’s one gratuitous expense: training astronauts for free fall. ABO

Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

Arts

Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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National Socialism
propaganda
concentration camp
ethics
documenta
migration
Poland
political aesthetics
contemporary art

Arts

Simon Critchley

Punk’s raptures are mystical.

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

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Authors

Books

Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: The Place of the Symbolic

Dieter Mersch: Epistemologies of Aesthetics

Sara Alonso Gómez (ed.), Isabel J. Piniella Grillet (ed.), ...: NO Rhetoric(s)

Fiction

When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

Angst

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.

Through the grayness of this concrete city, streams of tin-box vehicles flow ahead languidly – and like at a river’s delta, distributaries of little hatchbacks and dented yellow taxis branch off from the main road, spreading in varied directions. From your roof, you can see the whole city, you can feel it’s pulse – yet, there is such a strange silence around you, it’s as if the noise below is far, far away, so far that you are actually longing...

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Fiction

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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Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο; OPEN
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The limp, voluptuous decadence of the place

Bruce Bégout

I’m not going to talk about my profession here. ABO FR DE

Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson’s literature is a fast trip through the American night, drawn in melancholy images of great beauty. ABO

Fiction

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember?

Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

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Fiction

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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Authors

Books

Allison Grimaldi Donahue: The History of Breathing

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

Gleb J. Albert (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov, ...: The Steps of Nemesis

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Watchfiends and Rack Screams

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

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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Ute Holl

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

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed. OPEN
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Discourse

Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

Hurrah!

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

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Discourse

Sina Dell’Anno

The Disobedience of the Word

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

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Authors

Books

Elisabeth Bronfen: Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

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

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

Humanities

A dialogue that doesn’t cover up its traces

David Graeber

Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Anarchism is about the possibility of a crowd becoming smarter.

There’s endless literature on the mob or “the madness of crowds”, and most people do assume that any kind of crowd is necessarily going to be, collectively, stupider than any one of the individuals that make it up. That’s why most people accept the legitimacy of authoritarian leadership. If this were really true, it stands to reason that if you took even any one random person out of the crowd and made that person dictator, the crowd would make better...

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