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Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Tomb for Guy Debord

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death.

Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ. He was immolated by his own ideology, which he more than anyone (Tzara, Duchamp, Artaud, the Viennese Actionists…) had pushed to its extremes. He covered all of its possibilities, all of its impasses. His extreme attempts were neither successes, nor failures. Today, his path should be evaluated through other methods: the ones left to us in the wake of the avant-garde’s disappearance. To put it as Reiner Schürmann does: truth is a “conflictuality without agreements.”...

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

Artur Żmijewski

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

Subjectivation and Authenticity

It is human selection that turns a machine selection that is meaningless because of its compilation criteria into a (potentially) meaningful narrative.

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Claire Fontaine

Towards a Theory of Magic Materialism

Becoming the translator rather than the careless exploiter of nature might be the adventure of humankind in the years
to come.

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contemporary art
nature
materiality
political aesthetics

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minima oeconomica

Monograph

Wert, Tausch und menschliches Handeln

David Graeber, Vordenker der Occupy-Bewegung und Autor von »Schulden. Die ersten 5000 Jahre«, gilt als »Mann der Stunde« (FAZ). Seine Bücher verbinden politisches Engagement, Gesellschaftstheorie und ethnologische Perspektive auf höchst anregende Weise. Mit »Die falsche Münze unserer Träume« liefert Graeber das Gegenstück zu »Schulden«, indem er den »Wert« ins Zentrum...

David Graeber

Die falsche Münze unserer Träume

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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

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

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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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Africa
feminism
ritual
spiritism
performance
colonialism
body
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Stephen Barber

An immodest proposal

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. As Ballard emphasises several times in the World Versus America notebooks, he is utterly serious in his concerns and visions.
Although the Ballard estate declined permission for any images of pages from the World Versus America archival notebooks to accompany this essay, any member of the general public interested to do so can readily visit the British Library and view the notebooks in their entirety in the freely-accessible manuscripts collection there.

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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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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

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

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Black Panther is an American, not an African story

A.K. Kaiza

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. OPEN
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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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film
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Siegfried Kracauer
photography
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Kai van Eikels

There is no responsibility-bearing demos without participation in political action. OPEN
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Marcus Quent

Belief in the world is what we most lack.

Is it possible to regain a lost belief? Is it possible to do as we will with belief? OPEN
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Barbara Basting

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure. ABO DE

Sina Dell’Anno

The rebellion of the signifiers against their semantic taming OPEN
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Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟

Etrange (غریب) در زبان فرانسوی از ریشه لاتین extraneus به معنای «خارجی» در برابر داخلی intraneus است. آنچه از خانه نیست unheimlich (امر غریب) از heim (خانه) نیست از منزل نیست در طرف دیگر دروازه fores است foreigner (خارجی)، خارج از ضرب و زیادی است odd (زاید) ناهنجار نامعمول نادر کمیاب تکی است seltsam (عجیب) عجیب و غریب besherat رشید ظریف پراوهام خمیده‌‌ verschroben (بد خو) خمیده شگفت‌ آور خارق‌ العاده حیرت‌ انگیز

غنای زبان امری غریب است در کلماتی که به نحوی حولِ مفهومِ غریبِ خارجی ausländer شکل گرفته اند خارج از کشور «هم‌‌ کشور ما» همانگونه که پیش‌ تر در فرانسه می‌ گفتیم «این کشور من است» برای اشاره به کسی از روستای من محله‌ ی من استان من ولایت من