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"Curriculum Vitae in Pictures“

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Photographic Archive

The book tells the story of Lili and Siegfried Kracauer’s close working relationship – from the early 1930s following their marriage in Germany, to exile in Paris and the war and post-war years in the USA.

Kracauer. Photographic Archive presents largely unknown material from the estate of the German-American theorist of film and photography, Siegfried Kracauer and his wife and assistant Elisabeth, known as Lili. The single and group portraits, still lifes, street scenes and landscapes collected in this book all come from the estate of Siegfried Kracauer. Published here for the first time, they are an extensive and representative selection from the enlargements, contact sheets and rolls of film originally archived by Lili Kracauer. With...

1930s
20th century
biography
archive
1950s

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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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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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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? 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

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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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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 experience
war

Magazine Online

Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Showdown im Kreuzzug gegen die Guzmanns

In seinem früheren Leben war Patrick Silver einmal Cop. Und Kollege von Isaac Sidel. Jetzt ist der jüdisch-irische Koloss hauptberuflich...

Jerome Charyn

Patrick Silver

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

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
- fiction
- autofiction
- Theory of fiction
- memory
- autobiography

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Johannes Binotto

Language can never be private

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed.

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language
theatre / drama
feminism
subjectification
Shakespeare
gender

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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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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… 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

Kim Gordon

Where do you go when you disappear? OPEN
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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...

literature
radio

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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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Venice
avant-garde
obsession
short stories
urbanism
contemporary literature

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Angelika Meier

Your story begins with a tunnel.

The lost cause is the only one worth fighting for.

I’m standing in my perfectly fitting uniform with its freshly-pressed swastika armband in a long line at an American office. I’m waiting to submit my Application for Total War. Then, after standing in line for hours, the friendly clerk tells me that I need The Application for Foreign Aggressions in the next office over. Since I’m a depressed fascist, I don’t keep my chin up for long—despite my spiffy brown uniform—so I decide that’s enough for today and to try again tomorrow. The very next morning, I’m valiantly standing in the correct line, but then I’m missing some paperwork for the correct submission of my Application for Total War. Besides a birth certificate (the original, no copies allowed!), I’m still missing two recommendation letters from American citizens. Five are necessary. But—I thought just three… No, five in total! With a smile, the clerk raises her right hand, her fingers spread...

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