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“Obsessed with buffering”

Tom McCarthy

Recessional—Or, the Time of the Hammer

Towards the end of Thomas Pynchon’s mammoth 1973 novel Gravity’s Rainbow, the stumbling ingénue of a hero Tyrone Slothrop sets off on a commando raid. The territory he and his cohorts move through is a giant metropolis, a “factory-state” in which capital, technology and power, perfectly co-calibrated, send airships drifting through urban canyons, past chrome caryatids and roof-gardens on skyscrapers that themselves shoot up and down on elevator-cables: a conurbation Pynchon calls the “City of the Future” or “Raketen-Stadt.” The...

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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… 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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Stephen Barber

Twenty-four hours in state of unconsciousness

Now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself… ABO

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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Kim Gordon

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

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Soham Gupta

When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

In his photographs and texts, Calcutta-based Soham Gupta forces the tension that arises between fiction and real-life conditions in as yet unseen ways.

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Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

»Stilbildend. Ein Meister seines Genres.«

Joseph Mitchells sechs lange Reportagen über New York und seine Hafengegend sind längst legendär. Auf seinen Wegen zwischen Hudson River...

Joseph Mitchell

Zwischen den Flüssen

Monograph

Eins mit der Stadt

»Erlauf dir die Stadt; nimm 15, nimm 20 verschiedene Busse am Tag, verfahr dich, sei immer unterwegs, geh in die...

Joseph Mitchell

Street Life

Monograph

Südöstlich der Insel. Reisenotizen

James Agee durchwandert schreibend Brooklyn: von den alten Stadtteilen im Nordwesten mit ihren Backsteinhäusern über die Brooklyn Bridge und durch...

James Agee

Brooklyn ist

Monograph

In New Yorks Herz der Finsternis

Drogen, Waffengewalt, rivalisierende Gangs, korrupte Cops, ausgebrannte Straßenzüge: Die Bronx ist ein hartes Pflaster, das ständig am Rand eines kollektiven Gewaltausbruchs steht. Allein Baseball und das Yankee Stadium halten den Stadtteil am Leben. Nun droht ein Streik der Spieler den gesamten Borough in den Untergang zu stürzen. Ein letzter Hoffnungsträger...

Jerome Charyn

El Bronx

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Autofiction—Metafiction
- autofiction
- fiction
- autobiography
- Theory of fiction
- memory

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Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο;

Ξένος extraneus του έξω όχι του μέσα (intraneus) όχι της οικίας unheimlich όχι του heim όχι της εστίας της άλλης πλευράς της πόρτας – fores, foreigner όχι υπερβολικά στον ρυθμό, odd όχι κανονικός όχι συνήθης σπάνιος ιδιάζων seltsam παράξενος besherat γενναίος κομψός απρόβλεπτος στραβός verschroben

λοξός αναπάντεχος εξαιρετικός εκπληκτικός

Είναι εκπληκτικό πόσες λέξεις εκφράσεις τρόπους διαφορετικούς έχουμε για να μιλήσουμε για τον παράξενο ξένο τον ausländer τον έξω από τη χώρα και όχι «pays avec nous» όπως λέγαμε κάποτε στη Γαλλία «c’est un pays à moi» για να πούμε κάποιος από το χωριό μου τη γειτονιά μου την περιοχή μου την πατρίδα μου

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Raphaëlle Milone

He would say “Never work!”

Old-school publisher, avant-garde dandy, undisputed expert on the global history of Dada: Raphaëlle Milone paints an intimate but unsparing portrait of a man who belonged perhaps to a dying breed but is still remembered vividly.

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Dodie Bellamy

A stupid tweet by a nobody, meant as a parody, somehow goes viral and the internet offers up death threats. OPEN
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Diane Williams

How about some string?

I said “Would you like a rope? You know that haul you have is not secured properly.” ABO DE

A. L. Kennedy

When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first… ABO DE FR

Pierre Guyotat

“This text was written at the end of 1962, after my return from Algeria. For me the text is the matrix for Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats.” P.G. OPEN
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Books

Yann Le Bras, Jean Paul Mongin: The Death of Socrates

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

Miriam Henke, Jérôme Meyer-Bisch: Lao-Tzu, or the Way of the Dragon

Frédéric Morlot, Anne-Margot Ramstein: Albert Einstein's Bright Ideas

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

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...