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Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

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

motherhood
contemporary art
mother figure
gender
poetry
body

Fiction

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

Discourse

Haifa’s architectural modernism

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

memory
Middle East
history of architecture
Israel

Humanities

Skin marks us in the world

First, before you invent a skin, you are born with a skin; second, you can make a skin when you have one.

Modernism
Brazil
poetics
aesthetics
Think Art
intertextuality
avant-garde

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.

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

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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

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: In Touch: Encounters between Art and Research

Observing the Spectator

Article

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

Article

The Invented Beholder: Allegorical Powers of Persuasion as Visual Strategy

It is not just the painting that needs a beholder. The allegorical literature at the end of the Middle Ages is addressed to listeners as well as to spectators: the elaborated tableaux developed at the mind’s eye implicitly address a large audience. The prototypic description of paintings on the gardenwalls...

Cornelia Logemann

The Invented Audience

Article

The Relentlessness of Perspective. A Look at the Bystanders in 15th-Century Italian Painting

In the center of this article stands Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation of Christ. The enigmatic painting has been the object of innumerable interpretations; while for the most part, research has focused on the identification of the three prominent figures in the foreground, this article suggests that it is not the...

Urte Krass

Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit

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

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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ceremony
spiritism
body
Africa
performance
ritual
colonialism
feminism

Current Texts

From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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linguistics
science fiction
semiotics and semiology
utopia
communication media
communication

Current Texts

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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On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? 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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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

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

Arts

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

The Next Bit. Corpo a corpo con l’ignoto

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza?

Immaginiamo di trovarci al cospetto di un “oggetto semiotico” ignoto. Potrebbe trattarsi di un dipinto, di un brano di letteratura, di un pezzo musicale, di un programma informatico, di un artefatto culturale in senso lato: poco importa al momento, ciò che ci interessa è il carattere di estraneità di questo oggetto, di cui ignoriamo al momento tutto. Attardiamoci per un attimo in questo limbo interpretativo. Nella realtà, questa sorta di tabula rasa sostanzialmente non esiste, ogni oggetto ci arriva già...

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electronic music
reading
music
time
media theory

Arts

Tyler Coburn

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

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Artur Zmijewski

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.” 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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Video art
performance art
identity
human–animal communication

Arts

Donatien Grau, James Spooner

“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

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Authors

Books

Mathias Denecke (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation

Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

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

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

Fiction

An immodest proposal

Stephen Barber

A War of Fragments: World Versus America

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. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions. Although the Ballard estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do...

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Fiction

Mike Wilson

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

I.V. Nuss

The seahorse is the chosen metaphor for pregnant trans men ABO DE

Raphaëlle Milone

Old-school publisher, avant-garde dandy, undisputed expert on the global history of Dada: Raphaëlle Milone paints an intimate but unsparing portrait of a man who belonged perhaps to a dying breed but is still remembered vividly. ABO FR

Jochen Thermann

I really should not have hired him…

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

Fiction

A. L. Kennedy

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

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

ABO DE FR

Fiction

Ann Cotten

The last philosopher. The zen-queen.

In what way are you a communist – since we need to define this.

– In what way are you a communist – since we need to define this: someone who is convinced that a totally different form of organization of communal life would be good for the human race, –

– Isn’t that equally true of monarchists and leaders of sects?

– ...with a focus on justice.

– but the people should behave differently, right?

– They should be totally different.

– Are you not simply a misanthropist?

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– No, because there are people that I like, very much even. And I understand all the less why most people feel compelled to be so nasty.

– Most people don’t seem to be quite as bothered by this as you are.

– Oh really? In my perception, most people are pretty bothered by anything that is different than themselves. That is why we need rules that define how to behave toward people we can’t stand.

– You have just been suffering in a...

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Authors

Books

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

Tom McCarthy: Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): “Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

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

Simon Critchley

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. ABO

Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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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Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

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

Discourse

Slavs and Tatars

Why the Backwards Smile?

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

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Discourse

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

Sex creates love and love creates sex

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

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philology
music

Authors

Books

Liza Mattutat (ed.), Roberto Nigro (ed.), ...: What’s Legit?

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

Alexander Kluge, Joseph Vogl: Soll und Haben

Humanities

Nothing is at home

Phenomena in Exile

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

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins. And, what is worse, they say, these are ruins of its own making. But it bears noting that debris has proved to be a productive site. For finding things. Marcel Duchamp’s work, for example, can make an appearance as a phenomenology. And phenomenology itself, for another example, can dispel its origin, the transcendental subject – Kant’s old doublet. What this adds up to is a...

ABO

art
aesthetics
Modernism
art theory
phenomenology

Humanities

Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟ OPEN
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Andreas L. Hofbauer

The yoke of being, noteworthy dis-position

Anyone inclined to describe hunters and gatherers as poor, would be advised to understand them as free. OPEN
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The abandonment of the centrality of the subject

Donatien Grau

Philology keeps it possible to open a space for the minority. OPEN
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Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Philippe Sollers

Like no other journal, Tel Quel was an outstanding arena of literary innovation and intellectual revolution. In this conversation its founder and publisher, Philippe Sollers, provides intimate insight and polemical hindsight into some of the most important milestones of its still-resonating era. ABO DE

Humanities

Felix Stalder

Subjectivation and Authenticity

It is human selection that turns a machine selection that is meaningless because of its compilation criteria into a (potentially) meaningful narrative.

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Humanities