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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

A Sinister Assassin

from myself / to myself / who is it that comes / and who is it that goes?

Antonin Artaud’s very last work, prior to his death in March 1948, is the most extraordinary element of his entire body of work – and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud – through its fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms, along with its dissolutions and negations of forms, focused above all on the human anatomy, as well as on sonic experimentation and on provocations for innovation in...

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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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»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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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): A Sinister Assassin

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

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

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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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

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One plus one equals other

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

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

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Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Does this buried or lost face have a name?

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

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The Subject of Capitalism
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Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?
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Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

The key to survival will lay in female hands.

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Michele Pedrazzi

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

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

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

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Dieter Mersch: Epistemologies of Aesthetics

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

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

Only art has the power of a form. Mathematics is an exercise for monks.

Alain Badiou

Art and Mathematics

After all, the history of modern and contemporary art can be read as the progressive inclusion of a growing part of the formless into apparatuses.

We all know that the relationship between mathematical activity and artistic creation is a very old one. We know that for a start the Pythagoreans tied the science of number not merely to the movements of the stars but to musical modes. We know that Babylonian and Egyptian architecture presupposed elaborate geometrical knowledge, even if the notion of demonstration had still not been won. Further back still, we find formal, or abstract, outlines mixed in with animal representations, in the...

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