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Matrices porteuses – Surrogacies

DIAPHANES Magazine No. 11

This issue explores practices of human and non-human substitution.

What claims the place of the nuclear family in the face of hybrid kinships and social freezing? What could new elective kinships be in times of chatbots and pseudonymisation? Is this the time for surrogate mother tongues and extra-human rhetorics of surrogation? Sophie Lewis claims a gestational communism and hunts our grannies. Barbara Vinken reflects on spiritual motherhood, Luciana Parisi on human automata and gendered proxies. For Zuzana Cela, language is a foreign body that can be invaginated. Werner Hamacher strolls...

motherhood
mother figure
body
contemporary art
gender

Current Texts

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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream 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. 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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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
body
feminism
spiritism
ceremony
Africa
ritual

Current Texts

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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New releases

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

Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira: Invented Skins

Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

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

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

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Watchfiends and Rack Screams

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

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

Topics

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

Current Texts

Slavs and Tatars

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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Michele Pedrazzi

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

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

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electronic music
reading
media theory
music
time

Current Texts

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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Zoran Terzić

Symbolical transplants are necessary

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

Artur Zmijewski

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

Books

Liliana Gómez (ed.): Performing Human Rights

Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

Daniel Berndt (ed.), Susanne Huber (ed.), ...: ambivalent work*s

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Radio Works: 1946–48

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

A non-Western way of thinking

Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.)

String Figures

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs

In recent years, string figures have gained prominence in cultural theory. Donna Haraway promotes string figures as a method of thinking and collaboration between both disciplines and species. Rather than the technicist and rigid metaphor of the network, Haraway’s string figures provide a playful, process-oriented, embodied, performative (and non-Western) mode of thought in which responsibility and collaboration are foregrounded.