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Should we abandon the cosmopolitan idea?

Zairong Xiang (ed.)

minor cosmopolitan

minor cosmopolitan takes the “ism” out of “cosmopolitanism.”

Around the turn of the millennium, academics and politicians predicted that the world would grow together as one and that people would become less bound by national affiliations. Almost twenty years later, there is little left of this vision. This is not such a surprise when we consider that the cosmopolitan ideal (as articulated during the European Enlightenment) wholeheartedly embraced the promises of a globalising economy, yet has remained oblivious to, and even complicit with, capitalist exploitation, slavery, and colonialism....

globalization
cosmopolitics
politics
art
art theory

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

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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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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

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

Sina Dell’Anno

“He always read Priam instead of ‘prime’.” 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

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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utopia
communication media
linguistics
semiotics and semiology
science fiction
communication

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Elena Vogman

Ornamentation is the body of our thought

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

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Choreographing multitudes

Anthology

Soziale Medien – Neue Massen

An Massenversammlungen und den positiven oder negativen Phantasmen der Masse entzünden sich unterschiedliche Diskurse und Praktiken von sozialer Steuerung, Kommunikation und Gemeinschaftsbildung. Doch sind Massen nicht mehr das, was sie einmal waren. Von der algorithmischen Auswertung von Massendaten über die Diagnose zerstreuter Öffentlichkeiten im Zeitalter von social media zu neuen...

Inge Baxmann (ed.), Timon Beyes (ed.), Claus Pias (ed.)

Soziale Medien – Neue Massen

Anthology

Exodus. Reale Demokratie. Immanenz. Territorium. Maßlose Differenz. Biopolitik

Inventionen 2 verortet die Aktualisierung poststrukturalistischer Theorien in den gegenwärtigen Kämpfen um neue politische Ordnungen, Ökonomien, Lebensweisen und Wissensformen. Die Besetzungsbewegungen des Jahres 2011 sind dabei impliziter und expliziter Bezugspunkt. In der Logik der gesamten Reihe präsentiert auch dieser Band aktuelle Positionen poststrukturalistischer Theorie und praktiziert damit eine Neuzusammensetzung ihrer...

Isabell Lorey (ed.), Roberto Nigro (ed.), Gerald Raunig (ed.)

Inventionen 2

Anthology

Social Media—New Masses

Mass gatherings and the positive or negative phantasms of the masses instigate various discourses and practices of social control, communication, and community formation. Yet the masses are not what they once were. In light of the algorithmic analysis of mass data, the diagnosis of dispersed public spheres in the age...

Inge Baxmann (ed.), Timon Beyes (ed.), Claus Pias (ed.)

Social Media—New Masses

Monograph

Das Performative im Politischen

Judith Butler und Athena Athanasiou im Gespräch: Die Diskussion kreist um diejenigen, die Land, Staatsbürgerschaft, Besitz verloren haben, jene, die der Zugehörigkeit zur Welt beraubt sind. Was bedeutet dieser prekäre Verlust in einer von der Logik des Besitzes beherrschten kapitalistischen Welt? Kann er zur Quelle des Widerstands werden und politische...

Athena Athanasiou, Judith Butler

Die Macht der Enteigneten

Topics

Wissen-Nicht-Wissen
- potentiality
- experiment
- poetology of knowledge
- ignorance and non-knowledge
- literary studies
- idleness
- epistemology
- astonishment
- history of knowledge
- poetics
Autofiction—Metafiction
- autobiography
- memory
- autofiction
- Theory of fiction
- fiction
Color and meaning
Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?
- image and imagery
- color
- chromatics / colour science
- monochrome
- semiotics and semiology
minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- financial crisis
- discourse history
- economy
- financial markets
- economics
- economization

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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
re-enactment
artistic practice
art theory
transhumanism
postmodernism

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Felix Stalder

Subjectivation and Authenticity

It is human selection that turns a machine selection that is meaningless because of its compilation criteria into a (potentially) meaningful narrative.

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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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Malte Fabian Rauch

Philosophy is found wanting. It is considered anachronistic, some say dead. The tradition is in ruins. ABO

Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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Guy Debord was the avant-garde’s Christ.

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

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. ABO FR DE

Books

Francesco Guercio (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: The Philosophy of Nietzsche

Malte Fabian Rauch (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: Reading Marx

Alex Arteaga (ed.): Architectures of Embodiment

Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: The Place of the Symbolic

»… Consistently Abused and Forced…«

Kati Kroß

Christoph Schlingensief's »Freakstars 3000«

However, the discussions about Schlingensief’s film were sparked by the same, or similar, questions as in the case of Disabled Theater: have the performers been exposed? Have they been declared incompetent, or ridiculed?

When non-disabled artists such as Jérôme Bel or Christoph Schlingensief in their productions work with actors who, in hegemonic discourse, are referred to as disabled, they almost invariably face criticism over the exploitation and voyeuristic exhibition of these people. Bel’s Disabled Theater anticipated such reservations and took a good deal of wind out of its critics’ sails by having the performers themselves raise these issues on stage and report on their families’ reactions to the piece. Nevertheless, the question whether...

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performing arts
disability studies
aesthetics
identity
Jérôme Bel

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The abandonment of the centrality of the subject

Donatien Grau

Philology keeps it possible to open a space for the minority. OPEN
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Sina Dell’Anno

The rebellion of the signifiers against their semantic taming OPEN
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Andreas L. Hofbauer

The yoke of being, noteworthy dis-position

Anyone inclined to describe hunters and gatherers as poor, would be advised to understand them as free. OPEN
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Sylvia Sasse

“Lifestyle must conform to the above-named circles of persons or be easily adapted,” “artistic talent,” “strong general education.” OPEN
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Jean-Luc Nancy

Ζένοι και Zah και Zuh

αποξενωμένοι αποκλίνοντες από ποιο αόρατο οικείο;

Ξένος extraneus του έξω όχι του μέσα (intraneus) όχι της οικίας unheimlich όχι του heim όχι της εστίας της άλλης πλευράς της πόρτας – fores, foreigner όχι υπερβολικά στον ρυθμό, odd όχι κανονικός όχι συνήθης σπάνιος ιδιάζων seltsam παράξενος besherat γενναίος κομψός απρόβλεπτος στραβός verschroben

λοξός αναπάντεχος εξαιρετικός εκπληκτικός

Είναι εκπληκτικό πόσες λέξεις εκφράσεις τρόπους διαφορετικούς έχουμε για να μιλήσουμε για τον παράξενο ξένο τον ausländer τον έξω από τη χώρα και όχι «pays avec nous» όπως λέγαμε κάποτε στη Γαλλία «c’est un pays à moi» για να πούμε κάποιος από το χωριό μου τη γειτονιά μου την περιοχή μου την πατρίδα μου