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About ‘how we treat the others’
About ‘how we treat the others’

Artur Żmijewski

Conversation on “Glimpse”

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

Glimpse shows us scenes filmed in various places. How long did you stay at these places? Was it already known that Calais would be cleared when you started the project?   We spent more than one month filming in Berlin, Calais, Grande-Synthe (the suburb of Dunkirk), and Paris. Yes, it was announced that the French administration was going to “clear” the Jungle in Calais. It was also quite obvious that refugees would be removed from the streets of Paris. Such places, like...
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Punk’s raptures are mystical.

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.   OPEN
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Camouflaged with a visual language

Malte Fabian Rauch

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?” ABO
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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“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

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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Sex creates love and love creates sex

Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

Sex creates love and love creates sex

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

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Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans
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Malte Fabian Rauch (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: The Place of the Symbolic
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Marietta Kesting (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.): Human after Man
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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): “The Human Face” and Other Writings on His Drawings
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Marietta Kesting (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.): Politics of Emotions/Power of Affect
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Jason Schwartz: Houndstooth
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THINK ART? THINK ART!

Monograph

Über das Denken der Kunst

Von der Kunst als Forschung und der Forschung als Kunst ist spätestens seit den 1990er Jahren die Rede. Das Konzept sucht die Künste und Wissenschaften in ihrer Arbeitsweise einander anzunähern, doch wird dabei kaum die Frage gestellt, welche Art von Wissen die Künste im Unterschied zu den Wissenschaften hervorbringen. Dieter...

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologien des Ästhetischen

Monograph

Studien zur Bildlichkeit des Films

Filmbetrachtung hat es zunächst mit materiellen Sichtbarkeiten zu tun, mit Bildern, die dem Blick gegeben sind, bevor sie zu erzählen...

Fabienne Liptay

Telling Images

Monograph

Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Does this buried or lost face have a name?

Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), Elena Vogman (ed.)

The Cube and the Face

Monograph

One plus one equals other

For an aesthetic mode of thought beyond the “linguistic turn”

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

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Symbolical transplants are necessary

Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

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

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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»This is not my blood.«
What is the problem with solutions? Blind or deaf? Which faith? What knowledge? Duchamp or Warhol? East or west? OPEN
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»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.« OPEN
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Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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DIAPHANES MAGAZINE No. 6/7
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Donatien Grau (ed.), Christoph Wiesner (ed.): After the Crisis
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Sami Khatib (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form
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Luc Meresma: Natural Enemies
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DIAPHANES MAGAZINE No. 1
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Yves Netzhammer: Concave Thoughts
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Political Reflections on Choreography, Dance and Protest

Political Reflections on Choreography, Dance and Protest


Oliver Marchart

Dancing Politics

What happens when today’s sovereign, the people, start dancing publicly for reasons of protest?

The human body is the most important medium through which a public space is curved out of the social. Of course, this does not always have to occur in form of a militarized collective marching in-sync through the streets. Very often it is precisely the vulnerability of bodies which is used as a ­performative medium of protest (up to the extreme point where people decide to publicly set themselves on fire). Taking this word of caution into account, we may...
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Alexander García Düttmann

What does “emancipatory” mean today?

Let us pretend one more time that the world can still be saved. ABO DE

Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

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Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death. ABO FR DE
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When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

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

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.

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“Poetry must be made by all. Not by one.”

Mário Gomes

“Poetry must be made by all. Not by one.”

“Nuestro Norte es el Sur” = “Our North is the South.”

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Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive
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Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment
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Luc Meresma: Natural Enemies
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Frank Ruda (ed.), Jan Völker (ed.): Art and Contemporaneity
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Philippe Despoix (ed.), Siegfried Kracauer, ...: The Past's Threshold
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Donatien Grau (ed.), Christoph Wiesner (ed.): After the Crisis
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