Fiction

Yes, magic exists!

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

A Sinister Assassin

from myself / to myself / who is it that comes / and who is it that goes?

Antonin Artaud’s very last work, prior to his death in March 1948, is the most extraordinary element of his entire body of work – and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud – through its fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms, along with its dissolutions and negations of forms, focused above all on the human anatomy, as well as on sonic experimentation and on provocations for innovation in...

autobiography
poetry
Modernism
avant-garde
literature

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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

Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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When life’s hard, time’s a motherfucker going slow

Soham Gupta

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. ABO DE FR

A. L. Kennedy

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

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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…

Now the dead will no longer be buried, now this spectral city will become the site for execrations and lamentations, now time itself will disintegrate and void itself, now human bodies will expectorate fury and envision their own transformation or negation, now infinite and untold catastrophes are imminently on their way —ready to cross the bridge over the river Aire and engulf us all — in this winter of discontent, just beginning at this dead-of-night instant before midnight, North-Sea ice-particles already crackling in the air and the last summer long-over, the final moment of my seventeenth birthday, so we have to go, the devil is at our heels… And now we’re running at full-tilt through the centre of the city, across the square beneath the Purbeck-marble edifice of the Queen’s Hotel, down towards the dark arches under the railway tracks, the illuminated sky shaking, the air fissured with beating cacophony,...

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Dodie Bellamy

All that pent up terror and rage

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

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Magazine Online

Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Joseph Mitchell für die Westentasche

Der dreiundneunzigjährige Hugh G. Flood, pensionierter Abbruchunternehmer mit schottisch-irischen Wurzeln, gedenkt mit einer Diät aus Fisch und anderem Meeresgetier, Whiskey...

Joseph Mitchell

Old Mr. Flood

Monograph

»Ich bin der schlimmste Alptraum, den Sie jemals hatten«

Isaac Sidel kandidiert fürs Amt des Mayors von New York City. Marilyn lernt Joe Barbarossa, den Drogencop mit den eigenen Methoden, kennen und lieben. Sidel wütet sowieso lieber unter Dealern, als sich politisch verschleißen zu lassen.

Jerome Charyn

Montezumas Mann

Monograph

Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.

Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des...

James Agee

Der Tramp und die Bombe

Monograph

»Der beste Reporter, der je für den New Yorker schrieb«

Ein Besuch auf einer Schildkrötenfarm, die einen Großteil des nordamerikanischen Bedarfs an Schildkrötenfleisch deckt; das Porträt einer seit 1854 bestehenden...

Joseph Mitchell

McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon

Topics

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

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Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

Humanity is a metahuman concept.

We are bodies. It makes no sense to debate this.

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postmodernism
transhumanism
re-enactment
realism
artistic practice
art theory

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Bruce Bégout

The limp, voluptuous decadence of the place

I’m not going to talk about my profession here.

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obsession
urbanism
short stories
Venice
contemporary literature
avant-garde

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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

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

Where do you go when you disappear? 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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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

Gleb J. Albert (ed.), Nikolaj Evreinov, ...: The Steps of Nemesis

Jean Paul Mongin, Junko Shibuya: Why Do Things Have Names?

Donatien Mary, Ronan de Calan: The Ghost of Karl Marx

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

Of what can I be truly certain?

Jean Paul Mongin, François Schwoebel

Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius

Can one trust his senses when perceiving the outside world? When my sensations are the basis of my perception of my own existence, what if these sensations are to be doubted – what can the proof of my own existence be? These questions, both simple and profoundly undermining, stand at the beginning of Modernity: the philosophy of René Descartes. This book drags its readers – and musketeer-like Mister Descartes himself – into the adventure of thinking. It gives a lively...

young readers
epistemology
thinking
certainty
Descartes

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The abandonment of the centrality of the subject

Donatien Grau

Philology keeps it possible to open a space for the minority. OPEN
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Dietmar Dath

Do you want to believe in language?

The index calculates everything. Announcements of awards, mostly false, light up then die. His dopamine balance feeds the list. Limbic structures support it. Brain means house, should have windows. OPEN
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Johannes Binotto

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed. OPEN
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Axel Dielmann

“Can you imagine something like that?”

The curators were probably worried that someone would stumble carelessly up the stairs while looking at the exhibits… 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

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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