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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.

We call this method “materialist” in reference to the wonder, thaumazein, experienced by the early Greek philosophers, who observed nature with an emotionally scientific approach, looking for resemblances and connection between every form of life but keeping close to the phenomena they studied. We call it “magic” because we believe that this term will help us fight the intellectual and perceptive ravages of a capitalist vision of the world, helping us rediscover the power of the living and the cultural...

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nature
materiality
contemporary art
political aesthetics

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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

Artur Zmijewski

“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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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

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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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Evil
film
contemporary art
cinema
film d'auteur

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minima oeconomica

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

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

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

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

Topics

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

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Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

On Gestational Communism

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

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community
motherhood
communism
social movements
family
birth
critique of neoliberalism

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Clémentine Deliss

A coffin to bury the statues of the ancestors

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo…

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colonialism
Africa
colonial history
sculpture
contemporary art
museum

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Sina Dell’Anno

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

“I don’t believe in progress, no.” OPEN
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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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Books

Tom McCarthy: Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

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

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata: Diagonale du vide

Should we abandon the cosmopolitan idea?

Zairong Xiang (ed.)

minor cosmopolitan

minor cosmopolitan takes the “ism” out of “cosmopolitanism.”

Around the turn of the millennium, academics and politicians predicted that the world would grow together as one and that people would become less bound by national affiliations. Almost twenty years later, there is little left of this vision. This is not such a surprise when we consider that the cosmopolitan ideal (as articulated during the European Enlightenment) wholeheartedly embraced the promises of a globalising economy, yet has remained oblivious to, and even complicit with, capitalist exploitation, slavery, and colonialism....