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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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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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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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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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!

Monograph

One plus one equals other

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

Dieter Mersch

Epistemologies of Aesthetics

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

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

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

Current Texts

»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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Simon Critchley

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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Current Texts

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

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

Books

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

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

Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: The Place of the Symbolic

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

Photographs tend to suggest infinity

Siegfried Kracauer

The Photographic Approach (1951)

Photographs evoke a response in which our sense of beauty and our desire for knowledge interpenetrate.

The photographic approach – that is, the effort to utilize the inherent abilities of the camera – is responsible for the particular nature of photographs. In the days of Zola and the Impressionists, the properties of photographs were commonly held to be the hallmarks of art in general; but no sooner did painting and literature break away from realism than these properties assumed an exclusive character. Since they depend upon techniques peculiar to the medium, they have remained stable throughout its evolution....

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