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To end GOD’S JUDGEMENT

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

Radio Works: 1946–48

Everything must be arranged to a hair in a fulminating order.

Artaud’s work is performative in the sense that it never simply describes, but actively produces the events it enacts. As Austin characterises performative language, ‘the issuing of the utterance is the performing of an action’.3 Artaud’s work, performed correctly, is magical, finding its power in ritualistic chanting. Intonation is key to this, recalling what he wrote about metaphysical language in The Theatre and its Double, where the aim is ‘to deal with intonations in an absolutely concrete manner, restoring their...

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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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A. L. Kennedy

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

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

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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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Pierre Guyotat

The matrix for »Tombeau pour cinq cent mille soldats«

“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.

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war
war experience

Magazine Online

Autofiction—Metafiction

Monograph

»Die am weitesten zurückliegende Vergangenheit hat die größte Sprengkraft. Jede intensive Erinnerung grenzt an Gewalt.«

»Wenn man ein Buch öffnet, weiß man nicht, wohin man geht. Man lässt sich führen in Zeiten, an Orte, zu Gefühlen, mit denen man sich sonst nicht ohne weiteres eingelassen hätte. Überhaupt sind unsere Leben Irrpfade, die wir auf verschiedene Weisen rekapitulieren – je nachdem, zu welcher Zeit und mit...

Pascal Quignard

Die wandernden Schatten

Monograph

Herkunft

Herkunft berichtet von der sinnlichen, emotionalen, geistigen Formung eines Kindes, das zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs in einem Dorf im Südosten Frankreichs in eine alte, katholische Familie ohne Vermögen geboren wurde. Wie die meisten seiner Bücher hat Pierre Guyotat es nahezu vollständig im Indikativ Präsens geschrieben. Die Gefühle, die Fragestellungen,...

Pierre Guyotat

Herkunft

Monograph

Eine Geschichte von Niedergang und Neuanfang

Lässt es sich in einem Totenhaus nicht vielleicht noch am besten leben?

Angelika Meier

Die Auflösung des Hauses Decker

Monograph

Was? Wer? Wann? Wo? Wie? Warum?

Dass das Autobiographische als Schlüssel zu Perecs gesamtem Werk zu lesen ist, zeigt dieser Band. Er umfasst zehn autobiographische Versatzstücke aus den Jahren 1959 bis 1981 – von den Umständen der eigenen Geburt (»Ich bin geboren«) über eine Skizze zur Gedächtnisarbeit oder eine Vorfassung seines Ellis-Island-Projekts bis hin zur Aufzählung...

Georges Perec

Geboren 1936

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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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artistic practice
realism
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Mário Gomes

“Poetry must be made by all. Not by one.”

“Nuestro Norte es el Sur” = “Our North is the South.”

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spatial turn
theory of architecture
community
architecture
South America
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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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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

Kim Gordon

Where do you go when you disappear? 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

Jiji-Crycry

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

“Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

Me, Antonin Artaud, I am my son, my father, my mother, and me.

The two poetic works collected together here as Here Lies preceded by Indian Culture were created as a partly improvised vocal performance dictated during one session on 25 November 1946, based on provisional notes, and transcribed by Artaud’s collaborator Paule Thévenin at Artaud’s pavilion in Ivry-sur-Seine. The two works together form one of the outstanding experiments of Artaud’s final period. Those two works were published in one volume in Paris on 20 January 1948 by the small poetry publisher K...

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Jochen Thermann

I really should not have hired him…

Waldemar—well, that was not actually his name… ABO DE FR

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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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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Zoran Terzić

Everything new is a pose in the alcoves of capital

In the post-avant-garde era we’re all either in the vanguard or asleep in the lap of capital. In this sense everybody is avant-garde—or nobody. OPEN
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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

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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