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The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization

Mathias Denecke (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...

Liquidity, Flows, Circulation

Today, it has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity.

Today, it has become a truism that capital circulates, that data, populations and materials flow, that money offers liquidity. These terms appear crucial for any description of our contemporary situation, whether in economics, media studies, or contemporary art. This book asks whether the preponderance of talk of flow, liquidity, and circulation is an expression of the cultural logic of today’s environmental capitalism.

capitalism
cultural critic
digital culture
art
digital media

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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? 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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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

Words are human things; a great obscurity saturates them… OPEN
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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream 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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Nothing is at home

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

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Modernism
phenomenology
art theory
art
aesthetics

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From xenolinguistics to cephalopods

Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable?

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semiotics and semiology
communication media
communication
utopia
linguistics
science fiction

New releases

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.): Breaking Grounds

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger: In Touch: Encounters between Art and Research

Hauke Branding (ed.), Julian Volz (ed.): Radical Desires

Anna Kipke (ed.), Iryna Kovalenko (ed.), ...: Drafts in Action

Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (ed.): Deberlinization

Observing the Spectator

Anthology

Involving the Beholder

The invention of depicting figures participating in an event — nameless bystanders, beholders, and onlookers — marks an important change in the ways artists addressed the beholder of the artworks themselves. This shift speaks to a significant transformation of the relationship between images and their audience. The public in the...

Beate Fricke (ed.), Urte Krass (ed.)

The Public in the Picture / Das Publikum im Bild

Anthology

Zu Jacques Lacans Bildtheorie

»Weil das Bild jener Schein ist, der behauptet, er sei das, was den Schein gibt, steht Platon auf gegen die Malerei als eine Aktivität, die mit der seinen rivalisiert. Dieses andere ist das ›klein a‹, um das ein Kampf geführt wird, dessen Seele die Augentäuschung ist.« (Jacques Lacan) Der materialreiche Band...

Claudia Blümle (ed.), Anne von der Heiden (ed.)

Blickzähmung und Augentäuschung

Anthology

Kunst und Gesellschaft

Die Ausstellung ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten zu einem der erfolgreichsten kulturellen Ereignisse avanciert. So zumindest scheint es angesichts der Vielzahl neuer Museumsbauten, der globalen Verbreitung sogenannter Biennalen und dem zunehmenden Maß an medialer und diskursiver Aufmerksamkeit, das der bildenden Kunst zuteil wird. Worin aber gründet dieser Erfolg? Welche gesellschaftliche...

Carolin Meister (ed.), Dorothea von Hantelmann (ed.)

Die Ausstellung

Anthology

Das Gedächtnis des Auges in Kunst und Wissenschaft

Nachbilder sind optische Phänomene, mit denen das Sehen sich selbst in den Blick nimmt. Seit der Empirismus im 18. Jahrhundert die Subjektivität der Wahrnehmung erschloss, traktierten Wissenschaftler, Künstler und Philosophen ihre Augen, um sie nicht als Empfänger, sondern als Erzeuger von Licht- und Farbphänomenen zu erfahren. Als im buchstäblichen Sinne verkörperte...

Werner Busch (ed.), Carolin Meister (ed.)

Nachbilder

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

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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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Ines Kleesattel

Blood!

Thérèse ayant douleurs menstruelles could be a beginning.

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feminism
gaze
body
painting
art history
subjectification
gender

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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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Sina Dell’Anno

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

Zoran Terzić

The programs “sense” how the clients function, but not because AI is becoming more human—rather because clients now function as generically as programs. OPEN
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Books

Daniel Berndt (ed.), Susanne Huber (ed.), ...: ambivalent work*s

Marion Muller-Colard, Clémence Pollet: Hannah Arendt's Little Theater

Around a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Georges Didi-Huberman, Mira Fliescher (ed.), ...

The Cube and the Face

Does this buried or lost face have a name?

The Cube, as we can see, isn’t one. It is an irregular polyhedron which catalogues describe as having twelve sides — that nice figure, twelve, a destinal figure if ever there was one, which willfully evokes Mallarmé’s throw of the dice, at the very moment that the clock strikes twelve at midnight, in the dark house of Igitur. One can imagine that Giacometti wanted to give a unique volume to the twelve facets — six and six — of two cubes added together: a unique architecture...