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Camouflaged with a visual language

Malte Fabian Rauch

Where the Negative Holds Court

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?” Many ventured to explore this wasteland, our present, in recent years. But cartographing a void is delicate matter. It is a blank space; it demands new methods. Representation is not among them, having proved too imprecise an instrument. One group went further than most others: drawing lines, mapping grounds, testing waters. Their lines introduced...

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»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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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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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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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

Sex creates love and love creates sex

“I don’t believe in progress, no.”

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philology
music

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Elena Vogman

Ornamentation is the body of our thought

With Bely, a continuum is continuously produced between visceral organic states, political states of society and meteorological states of the world.

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ESPACE DIAPHANES Berlin:<br>Œuvres d’art, la revue, les livres

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Œuvres d’art, la revue, les livres

New releases

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...: Movements of Air

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

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

Wolfgang Brückle (ed.), Fred Truniger (ed.): Display, Distribute, Disrupt

Sebastián Eduardo Dávila (ed.), Rebecca Hanna John (ed.), ...: On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

THINK ART? THINK ART!

Anthology

Zur Kritik der Wirksamkeit in den Künsten

In den heutigen Praxistheorien spielen Dinge und ihre Materialität eine prominente Rolle. Dinge gelten als ausgesprochen wirkmächtig, insofern sie als...

Kathrin Busch (ed.), Burkhard Meltzer (ed.), Tido von Oppeln (ed.)

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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

Anthology

Zu einer Poetik des Seriellen

Zugleich Gegenstand und Verfahren, setzt das serielle Denken, wie es sich in diesem Band abzeichnet, mithin eine Reihe von sonst...

Elisabeth Bronfen (ed.), Christiane Frey (ed.), David Martyn (ed.)

Noch einmal anders

Monograph

One plus one equals other

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

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

Topics

Observing the Spectator
- observer
- optical illusion
- gaze
- mirror
The Subject of Capitalism
- cognitive capital
- capitalism
- subjectification
- migration
Autofiction—Metafiction
- autofiction
- memory
- fiction
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
Color and meaning
Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?
- semiotics and semiology
- color
- image and imagery
- chromatics / colour science
- monochrome

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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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

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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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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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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

Michele Pedrazzi

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

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud the Mômo

Donatien Grau (ed.), Christoph Wiesner (ed.): After the Crisis

Wiktoria Furrer, Carla Gabrí, ...: How to Teach Art?

Essays on Photography by Siegfried Kracauer

Siegfried Kracauer, Philippe Despoix (ed.), ...

The Past's Threshold

There can be no doubt, however, that in Kracauer’s texts published at the turn of the 1920s and the 1930s from his position as an editor of the cultural pages at the daily newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, then in the 1950s during his American period, he sketches out a theorisation of photography that can be described as groundbreaking. But it is also true that most of his works overlap, in more than one way, with this medium of reproduction or that...