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Il testo ignoto è una promessa

Michele Pedrazzi

The Next Bit. Corpo a corpo con l’ignoto

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

Immaginiamo di trovarci al cospetto di un “oggetto semiotico” ignoto. Potrebbe trattarsi di un dipinto, di un brano di letteratura, di un pezzo musicale, di un programma informatico, di un artefatto culturale in senso lato: poco importa al momento, ciò che ci interessa è il carattere di estraneità di questo oggetto, di cui ignoriamo al momento tutto. Attardiamoci per un attimo in questo limbo interpretativo. Nella realtà, questa sorta di tabula rasa sostanzialmente non esiste, ogni oggetto ci arriva già...

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media theory
electronic music
music
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Stephen Barber

J.G. Ballard’s self-declared ‘Immodest Proposal’ for a global war-alliance to exact the destruction of America demonstrates the provocatory zeal of his last fiction plans, as well as their enduring prescience. 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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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall. ABO

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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»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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film d'auteur
film
contemporary art
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minima oeconomica

Monograph

« C'est le médecin qui a inoculé la maladie à son patient. »

L’affirmation selon laquelle la crise des marchés financiers implique une crise des sciences économiques est presque devenue un lieu commun : le libéralisme des marchés et la théorie des « marchés efficaces » auraient échoué et l’économie orthodoxe n’aurait créé aucun dispositif pour appréhender les « marchés sauvages » qui,...

Hyman P. Minsky

L'hypothèse d'instabilité financière

Monograph

Gedanken zu Kredit und Krise

Krise – kaum ein Begriff hat in jüngster Zeit eine solche Konjunktur erlebt, doch kann die inflationäre Rede von Banken- und Finanzkrise kaum darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass der globale ökonomische Kollaps mehr untergraben hat als unser Vertrauen in den Markt allein: Wir erleben derzeit eine veritable Glaubenskrise, die das Wertesystem der...

Samuel Weber

Geld ist Zeit

Anthology

Instabilität als Logik der Finanzmärkte selbst

Dass die momentane Krise der Finanzmärkte auch eine Krise der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sei, liest man derzeit immer wieder. Der Marktliberalismus und seine Theorie der »effizienten Märkte« seien gescheitert, es gebe in der ökonomischen Orthodoxie kein Instrumentarium, um »wilde Märkte« zu verstehen – die offenkundig Realität sind. Wie aber lassen sich Instabilitäten...

Hyman P. Minsky

Instabilität und Kapitalismus

Monograph

Wert, Tausch und menschliches Handeln

Wenn wir keine kühl kalkulierenden Wesen sind, die für sich selbst das Maximum an Macht, Vergnügen und materiellem Wohlstand zu akkumulieren versuchen, was sind wir dann?

David Graeber

Die falsche Münze unserer Träume

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Autofiction—Metafiction
- fiction
- autofiction
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
- memory
The Subject of Capitalism
- capitalism
- subjectification
- migration
- cognitive capital

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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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

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

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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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Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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Dennis Cooper, Donatien Grau, ...

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” OPEN
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Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

The key to survival will lay in female hands. OPEN
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Books

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud 1937 Apocalypse

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

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

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

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

Liza Mattutat (ed.), Roberto Nigro (ed.), ...: What’s Legit?

Fragility is the only thing I really know about me

Claire Denis

“Fragility is the only thing I really know about me”

I am fragile and sad – almost as described in Triste Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss.

I am not a very balanced person. I am fragile and sad – almost as described in Triste Tropiques by Claude Lévi-Strauss. I feel both those adjectives, I grew up with them. I was aware of my fragility even when I was very young – a baby, learning to walk, living somewhere in Africa and already feeling that the number of white persons was very small compared to the number of black persons and also noticing that most of the...

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