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Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it.

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

Why this past? Why is this past mine? A past which I did not even know?

"This is a book about the power that a past War holds over a German growing up in the 1950s and 1960s: born too late to see that war and too early to forget it. The narrative shows how painfully public events — the shadows, rather, of events gone by — intrude upon a life and shape it. The English translation appears at a moment when most of the key issues have radically changed. Germany has signed what amounts to a...

autobiography
1968
homosexuality
memory
emigration

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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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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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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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A. L. Kennedy

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

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

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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.

ABO DE FR

Magazine Online

Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

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

New York Reporter

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

Little Angel Street

Mit einem Erdrutschsieg ist Isaac Sidel zum Bürgermeister von New York City gewählt worden. Bevor er endgültig sein Amt antritt, heißt es, eine mysteriöse White-Power-Bande dingfest zu machen, die Obdachlose tötet. Dazu wirft Sidel sich wieder einmal in Lumpen und verschwindet unter dem Decknamen Geronimo Jones in den Untergrund von...

Jerome Charyn

Little Angel Street

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

Topics

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

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Johannes Binotto

Language can never be private

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed.

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language
feminism
Shakespeare
subjectification
theatre / drama
gender

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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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Kim Gordon

Where do you go when you disappear? 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

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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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

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...

discourse
art
contemporary culture
contemporary literature
contemporary art

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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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realism
postmodernism
transhumanism
re-enactment
artistic practice
art theory

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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.

Asleep, Patrick sees what he doesn’t believe while he’s awake.

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. But they’re slow shutter pictures of the past.

Five minutes past four, Patrick is woken up by a noise. He’s lying in the small room. Renate is sleeping in the big one.

“Maybe I’ll get an idea during the night,” he had justified his move to the couch, “Then I’ll have to send it to them. We’re sending the thing off tomorrow.” He was afraid of saying what he knew about Kerstin in his sleep, while lying next to Renate. In the darkness he feels the room buzzing at him. His brain answers the hum, singing sugar and protein, talking perineural network that controls the form and function of the synapses which guide all...

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