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The biggest bite out of the fruit of Knowledge
The biggest bite out of the fruit of Knowledge

Claus Pias (ed.)

Cybernetics

“To refuse to think without immediately thinking that it is man who is thinking.”

Although aspects of cybernetics can be traced back to various points in history, the proceedings of the so-called Macy Conferences, which have been edited for this volume, represent its modern foundational document. Held between 1946 and 1948 under the cumbersome title “Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems,” the papers delivered at these conferences were soon thereafter, at least as of 1949, referred to as contributions to cybernetics. Sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation (which was...
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  • historic documents
  • computer science
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Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream OPEN
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The Disobedience of the Word

Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” OPEN
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Ornamentation is the body of our thought

Elena Vogman

With Bely, a continuum is continuously produced between visceral organic states, political states of society and meteorological states of the world. OPEN
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Dieter Mersch

Digital disrupture

The machine remains alien to any mechanical limitation.

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

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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  • communication media
  • linguistics
  • science fiction
  • semiotics and semiology
  • utopia
  • communication
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Il testo ignoto è una promessa

Michele Pedrazzi

Il testo ignoto è una promessa

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza?

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minima oeconomica

Monograph

« La crise amène une part importante du capital humain à la casse. »

Depuis l'effondrement des banques en 2008, le capitalisme semble être entré dans une phase de stagnation durable, mais aussi dans une instabilité géopolitique et monétaire. Le scénario qui se joue sous nos yeux évoque une sorte de « socialisme du capital » : l’État, qui subvient aux besoins des «...

Christian Marazzi

Le socialisme du capital

Anthology

Instabilität als Logik der Finanzmärkte selbst

Dass die momentane Krise der Finanzmärkte auch eine Krise der Wirtschaftswissenschaften sei, liest man derzeit immer wieder. Der Marktliberalismus und seine Theorie der »effizienten Märkte« seien gescheitert, es gebe in der ökonomischen Orthodoxie kein Instrumentarium, um »wilde Märkte« zu verstehen – die offenkundig Realität sind. Wie aber lassen sich Instabilitäten...

Hyman P. Minsky

Instabilität und Kapitalismus

Monograph

Die zwei Seiten des »Opfers«

Worum geht es, wenn auf der Bühne der Politik, in den Tabellen der Sozialstatistik oder in den Texten der Ethnologie von »Opfern« die Rede ist? Ist die begriffliche Übereinstimmung bloß zufällig – oder verbirgt sich mehr dahinter? Die Studie zeigt, wie das Opfer (das Opferritual, der Verzicht, das Geopferte) in der...

Burkhardt Wolf

Die Sorge des Souveräns

Monograph

»Ein faszinierendes Tableau einer Genealogie menschlichen Wissens«

Unter der Vielzahl ›neuer Menschen‹, die das anthropologische Experimentierfeld der Moderne hervorgebracht hat, hat einzig der ökonomische Mensch überlebt … Grund genug, diesen Typus, seine Herkunft und seine Konjunktur zum Gegenstand einer historischen Analyse zu machen. Joseph Vogls Studie untersucht die weitläufigen Austauschverhältnisse zwischen Ökonomie, politischer Theorie, Anthropologie und Literatur...

Joseph Vogl

Kalkül und Leidenschaft

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Each showroom has a couple of “managers”.

Each showroom has a couple of “managers”.

Do I really know the person I’ve watched every day on screen for months? I know many things, like where he is, where he comes from, what his home looks like, when he gets up and sleeps, etc. But do I really know him?

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Is drama out cold? Is theatre?

Alexander García Düttmann

Is drama out cold? Is theatre?

Can contemporary theatre recognize itself in the boxing ring so that its fist, the fist of the past, strikes a forceful and violent blow?

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  • theatre / drama
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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

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Black Panther is an American, not an African story

A.K. Kaiza

In another era, the mish-mash presentation of Africa would have been the focal point of criticism. But this is not the age for facts. OPEN
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Hurrah!

Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

We rehearsed the crowd scenes in the Winter Palace, in the Throne Room and the Armorial Hall. ABO
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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...
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Jean-Luc Nancy

غریبه‌ها غریبه‌ها

ازخودبیگانه‌ ها راه‌ گم‌کرده‌ ها از کدامین اصل نامرئی؟ OPEN
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Why should this be art?

Sandra Frimmel

What does it mean? ABO DE
How could Dante be avant-garde?

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Philippe Sollers

Like no other journal, Tel Quel was an outstanding arena of literary innovation and intellectual revolution. In this conversation its founder and publisher, Philippe Sollers, provides intimate insight and polemical hindsight into some of the most important milestones of its still-resonating era. ABO DE
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Blood!

Ines Kleesattel

Blood!

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning.

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Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem looks back and ahead in the light of the spectacle of aesthetic capitalism, which has become even more unfettered since Debord’s death.

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