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Fiction

Upending meanings and rewriting sanity

A. L. Kennedy

What is an Author?

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

The one who takes the temperature of widespread amphetamine dreams, who carves out screaming headlines to turn up the heat. The one who makes every morning a dose of paranoia, an uptick of fathomless rage. When it all burns you’ll know – a writer was there at the first, taking words and dipping them in shit, upending meanings and rewriting sanity. The one who writes the speeches for the tiny and furious men. The one who frames every demand, every statement...

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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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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

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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Kim Gordon

It was another 75° day in LA.

Where do you go when you disappear?

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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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Halluzinatorische Chroniken New Yorks

Monograph

Big Guy im schmutzigen Spiel von Geld, Politik und Verbrechen

Isaac Sidel, Bürgermeister New Yorks und ehemaliger Polizeichef, spielt jetzt in der ganz großen Politik mit. Die Demokraten haben ihn zum Vizepräsidentschaftskandidaten gekürt, um dem glücklosen Strahlemann J. Michael Storm einen Volkshelden zur Seite zu stellen. Die legendäre Glock inklusive. Dabei stimmt in New York gar nichts mehr. Die halbe...

Jerome Charyn

Citizen Sidel

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

»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

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

Topics

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

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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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Johannes Binotto

Language can never be private

Where words are uttered, the taming is shrewed.

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Shakespeare
subjectification
language
gender
theatre / drama
feminism

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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

Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

How can we remember the way we used to remember? OPEN
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Rolf Bossart, Milo Rau

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

20th century
archive
biography
1950s
1930s

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Angelika Meier

Your story begins with a tunnel.

The lost cause is the only one worth fighting for. 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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I.V. Nuss

The seahorse is the chosen metaphor for pregnant trans men ABO DE

Ann Cotten

The last philosopher. The zen-queen.

In what way are you a communist – since we need to define this. OPEN
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Mike Wilson

A fast trip through the American night

Mike Wilson’s literature is a fast trip through the American night, drawn in melancholy images of great beauty.

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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