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Time Probe Zero Synthesis

DIAPHANES MAGAZINE No. 3

When to switch off? What to look for? How to write? Which lines to draw? Whence self-recognition? DIAPHANES 3—TIME PROBE ZERO SYNTHESIS

Where is the present when the computer pulses at the wrist every day, when we’re globally interconnected in real time but don’t take in our selves for a single moment, just bits and pieces, just snatching a few intensities, when neurons plus communication already makes a consciousness? Is it nothing but a hallucination, in permanent crisis? Does it stand still, get wider, poorer? How does the past change when systems record every second, saving them for the right moment or for...

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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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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

“If you love your family, you want family abolition for them!” ABO DE

Malte Fabian Rauch

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

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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

The machine remains alien to any mechanical limitation.

We really need an analysis of algorithmic conditions and their paradoxes and ambiguities that gives them an adequate framework and horizon. But instead we currently seem to be finding an algorithmic solution of the algorithmic, much as digital solutions are being offered for the problems of the digital public sphere, in the way that IT corporations, for example, use exclusively mathematical procedures to evaluate and delete “fake news,” inappropriate portrayals, or the violation of personal rights. This tends to result in a circularity that leaves the drawing of boundaries and raising of barriers solely to programming, instead of restoring them to our ethical conscience and understanding of what the social could mean today. The machine, by contrast, remains alien to any mechanical limitation—just as its inability to decide lies in the impossibility of self-calculation. The nucleus of digital culture should instead be sought where the cultural of culture is located:...

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Sina Dell’Anno

The Disobedience of the Word

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.”

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Magazine Online

The Subject of Capitalism

Monograph

Von der Diktatur des Marktes über die Gesellschaft

Ein eindringliches, bestens informiertes und wichtiges Buch. Christian Marazzi liefert in Verbranntes Geld eine innovative Analyse der Finanzökonomie, die heute die Wirtschaftskreisläufe in ihrer Gesamtheit durchdringt. Die globale Krise des Finanzkapitalismus ist nicht etwa eine unproduktive oder parasitäre Abweichung auf dem Weg zu mehr Wachstum. Im Gegenteil, es offenbart sich...

Christian Marazzi

Verbranntes Geld

Monograph

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Matthew Weiner’s series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen’s claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an...

Elisabeth Bronfen

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Monograph

Zur Herrschaft der Finanzialisierung

Seit dem Zusammenbruch der Banken im Jahr 2008 scheint der Kapitalismus in eine Phase anhaltender Stagnation sowie geopolitischer und monetärer Instabilität eingetreten zu sein. Das Szenario, das sich vor unseren Augen abspielt, lässt an eine Art »Sozialismus des Kapitals« denken: Der Staat, der die Bedürfnisse der »Finanzsowjets« sichert, erlegt der...

Christian Marazzi

Sozialismus des Kapitals

Anthology

The Question of Cohabitation

What is the current state of the subject and what about the status of its self-image? In contemporary discourses we... OPEN
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Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.)

Fragile Identities

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Autofiction—Metafiction
- fiction
- memory
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
- autofiction
minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- financial markets
- economization
- economy
- discourse history
- economics
- financial crisis

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A.K. Kaiza

Black Panther is an American, not an African story

In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts.

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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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Artur Zmijewski

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.” OPEN
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“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

Donatien Grau, James Spooner

“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.’” 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

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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Books

Alexander Kluge, Joseph Vogl: Soll und Haben

David Graeber: Anarchy—In a Manner of Speaking

Erich Hörl (ed.), Nelly Y. Pinkrah (ed.), ...: Critique and the Digital

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

Sami Khatib (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form

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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