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

Afropunk Philology

“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.’”

“If I could have one selfish wish, it would be that I could sing or play an instrument. I played bass for eight years, and I suck. It just doesn’t work with my brain, but art always has.’”

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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. 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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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

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

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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?

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performance art
human–animal communication
Video art
identity

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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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New releases

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Last Writings of Antonin Artaud

Anna Kipke (ed.), Iryna Kovalenko (ed.), ...: Drafts in Action

Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

Thomas Köck: un gran casino (ta pissà adoss l’ürocc)

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

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

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

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

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

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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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colonialism
performance
spiritism
ceremony
body
feminism
Africa
ritual

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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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music
philology

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream OPEN
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Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

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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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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Books

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

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Photographic Archive

Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.): String Figures

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

»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«

Christoph Schlingensief's »Freakstars 3000«

However, the discussions about Schlingensief’s film were sparked by the same, or similar, questions as in the case of Disabled Theater: have the performers been exposed? Have they been declared incompetent, or ridiculed?

When non-disabled artists such as Jérôme Bel or Christoph Schlingensief in their productions work with actors who, in hegemonic discourse, are referred to as disabled, they almost invariably face criticism over the exploitation and voyeuristic exhibition of these people. Bel’s Disabled Theater anticipated such reservations and took a good deal of wind out of its critics’ sails by having the performers themselves raise these issues on stage and report on their families’ reactions to the piece. Nevertheless, the question whether...

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