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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...

contemporary culture
contemporary literature
discourse
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art

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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

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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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

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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

Einer der besten Geschichtenerzähler, der je von den Straßen New Yorks berichtet hat.

Am Tag des großen Börsenkrachs 1929 trifft Joseph Mitchell in New York ein. Er ist ganze einundzwanzig Jahre alt. Als...

Joseph Mitchell

New York Reporter

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

Der zweite Dewey-Decimal-Roman

Dewey Decimal, über den weder wir noch er selbst allzu viel wissen, schießt sich im zweiten Band der Trilogie weiter...

Nathan Larson

Boogie Man

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

Topics

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

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Donatien Grau

The abandonment of the centrality of the subject

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

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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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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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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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Books

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): “Here Lies” preceded by “The Indian Culture”

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

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): The Human Face and Other Writings on His Drawings

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): A Sinister Assassin

Marion Muller-Colard, Clémence Pollet: Hannah Arendt's Little Theater

Maria Zinfert (ed.): Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

Empty Diagonal

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata

Diagonale du vide

A ghostly France: Emptiness and explosiveness behind the lines.

“If there is an artist capable of making these vacuums speak, it is d’Agata. To show what is not visible, to make present what can not be represented. There is a visual 'spectralism' about Antoine. It is about recording the spasms of humanity that is committing suicide, which has access to all the information needed to know what it is doing, and yet does nothing to revert the trend. We documented this suicide during a week of shared driving, of...