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“Fuck that thing.” That’s all punk needs.

Afropunk Philology

“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.’”

“If I could have one selfish wish, it would be that I could sing or play an instrument. I played bass for eight years, and I suck. It just doesn’t work with my brain, but art always has.’”

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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

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

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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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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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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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

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

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Magazine Online

minima oeconomica

Monograph

« Sur les théâtres de l’économie financière internationale, assiste-t-on à un spectacle relevant de la pure déraison ? »

Dans un contexte de crise financière omniprésente et durablement installée, Joseph Vogl interroge le système capitaliste, ses arcanes, ses modes de fonctionnement, la manière dont il se perpétue. Censé reposer sur une confiance multilatérale, le système des marchés est en réalité traversé d’inquiétude et d’instabilité. Ce qu’on définit comme ses...

Joseph Vogl

Le spectre du capital

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

Das Finanzregime

»Souverän ist, wer eigene Risiken in Gefahren für andere zu verwandeln vermag und sich als Gläubiger letzter Instanz platziert.«

Joseph Vogl

Der Souveränitätseffekt

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

Topics

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

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From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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utopia
semiotics and semiology
linguistics
communication media
communication
science fiction

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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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

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ethics
Poland
propaganda
concentration camp
political aesthetics
contemporary art
National Socialism
migration
documenta
gift

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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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Marie Glassl, Sophie Lewis

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

Michele Pedrazzi

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

Books

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

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

Mathias Denecke (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Liquidity, Flows, Circulation

Donatien Grau, Sylvère Lotringer: I Was More American than the Americans

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....