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Hauke Branding (ed.), Julian Volz (ed.)

Radical Desires

French gay liberation activists’ relations to North African men were often problematic, several contributions engage with the latent orientalist and racist tropes that appear in the movement’s writings. By aiming to go beyond a mere historicization of these ambivalences and exploring which contemporary problems appear in a different light as a result, Radical Desires highlights the (dis-)continuous relationship between current debates and those in 1970s France.
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • orientalism
  • desire
  • queer theory
  • contemporary art
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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

We really need an analysis of algorithmic conditions and their paradoxes and ambiguities that gives them an adequate framework and horizon. But instead we currently seem to be finding an algorithmic solution of the algorithmic, much as digital solutions are being offered for the problems of the digital public sphere, in the way that IT corporations, for example, use exclusively mathematical procedures to evaluate and delete “fake news,” inappropriate portrayals, or the violation of personal rights. This tends to result in a circularity that leaves the drawing of boundaries and raising of barriers solely to programming, instead of restoring them to our ethical conscience and understanding of what the social could mean today. The machine, by contrast, remains alien to any mechanical limitation—just as its inability to decide lies in the impossibility of self-calculation. The nucleus of digital culture should instead be sought where the cultural of culture is located:...

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From xenolinguistics to cephalo­pods

From xenolinguistics to cephalo­pods

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  • communication
  • utopia
  • science fiction
  • semiotics and semiology
  • linguistics
  • communication media

 

Topics
  • Choreographing multitudes

    Choreographing multitudes

    • social movements
    • crowd psychology
    • protest movements
    • swarm model
    • social networks
    • crowd
  • THINK ART? THINK ART!
  • Color and meaning

    Color and meaning

    Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?

    • semiotics and semiology
    • monochrome
    • color
    • chromatics / colour science
    • image and imagery
  • Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    Wissen-Nicht-Wissen

    • idleness
    • ignorance and non-knowledge
    • literary studies
    • poetology of knowledge
    • potentiality
    • experiment
    • astonishment
    • poetics
    • epistemology
    • history of knowledge

 

Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
Aesthetic Practices in the Global South

Liliana Gómez (ed.)

Performing Human Rights

This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...
  • violence
  • collective memory
  • Think Art
  • Human rights
  • justice