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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

A Diary of my Encounters

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

Evreinov was occupied with the spectacle’s theatrical, dramaturgical side. Due to its immense size, the production was directed collectively: Evreinov was the director-in-chief, followed by Kugel, Petrov, Derzhavin, and myself. I also designed the scenery and the costumes. My stage sets spanned the entire width of Palace Square and reached up to the third floor of the General Staff. They consisted of two huge platforms (a White and a Red one), connected by a steep bridge. There were around 8,000...

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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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Michele Pedrazzi

Cosa porterà il prossimo bit? Sconvolgenti novità? Semplice ridondanza? OPEN
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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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A.K. Kaiza

Black Panther is an American, not an African story

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.

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Malte Fabian Rauch

Nothing is at home

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

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aesthetics
art theory
art
phenomenology
Modernism

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

Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman: Before & After

Mathilde Arnoux (ed.), Maria Bremer (ed.): Westkunst, 1981

Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.): String Figures

Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira: Invented Skins

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Autofiction—Metafiction

Monograph

Curriculum Vitae in Pictures

Das Fotobuch »Kracauer. Fotoarchiv« zeigt bisher unbekannte fotografische Materialien aus dem Nachlass des Soziologen, Feuilletonisten und Filmtheoretikers Siegfried Kracauer: Portraits,...

Maria Zinfert (ed.)

Kracauer. Fotoarchiv

Monograph

Ego sum

In diesem ebenso frühen wie bedeutenden Werk begibt sich Jean-Luc Nancy an den Ursprungsort des modernen Subjekts bei Descartes. Deutlich wird, dass dieser Ort auch als Bühne, Szene der Fiktion und Performation betrachtet werden muss, denn das Cartesische Denken geht in jeder Hinsicht über die Bedingungen einer »Verifikation« im Sinne...

Jean-Luc Nancy

Ego sum

Monograph

Erinnerungsversuche

Wer bin ich? Wer bin ich gewesen? Kann man sein Leben, kann man die eigene Geburt, den eigenen Tod schreiben? Wie sich selbst schreiben? Wie vermag ein Blick zu schreiben? Zwischen Diskurs und Literatur, Leben und Kunst, Stimme und Schrift durchmisst Louis Marin in diesem kunstvoll komponierten Werk den vielschichtigen...

Louis Marin

Die exkommunizierte Stimme

Monograph

La littérature est un voyage de découverte

Tom Bishop a, pendant plus de soixante ans, contribué à définir les échanges littéraires, philosophiques, culturels, artistiques, mais aussi politiques entre Paris et New York. Comme professeur et directeur du Centre de Civilisation et de Culture Françaises à New York University, il a fait de l'institution de Washington Square l'un...

Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau

La littérature est un voyage de découverte

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Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- economy
- discourse history
- economization
- economics
- financial crisis
- financial markets
THINK ART? THINK ART!
Observing the Spectator
- gaze
- optical illusion
- observer
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Choreographing multitudes
- swarm model
- crowd
- social movements
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- crowd psychology
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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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Barbara Basting

Based on a brilliant trick

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s closeness to fascism has put him in a dubious light. Barbara Basting tells of her personal fascination with futurism and her dehabituation from its aura and central figure.

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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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Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Helmut J. Schneider

A Phenomenology of Compassion

How to make the strange person our “neighbor”? ABO DE

Sina Dell’Anno

The rebellion of the signifiers against their semantic taming OPEN
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Yann Le Bras, Jean Paul Mongin: The Death of Socrates

Kieran Aarons (ed.), Reiner Schürmann, ...: Modern Philosophies of the Will

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

“Aboard ship! ye philosophers!”

Wu Yi

The Sea as Mirror

“I’ve heard the silent cries that filled the air, the reticence of the sirens when Odysseus, mast-bound, sailed past. Hark!”

A genealogy of philosophy in the form of a geology of the diluvial, so to speak. I’ve asked: how does the ocean, as a physical presence, a dynamic relationship, and an unsettling imaginary, challenge and reinvent philosophy as it understands itself to be and defines itself against? The method I’ve hitherto practiced is one simple and well-suited to the purpose: to de-sublimate and re-sublimate the variously over-sublimated layer of sense in philosophy with one’s own being, flesh and blood, and...

history of philosophy
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Mengia Tschalaer

“The sexual asylum story is everything,” OPEN
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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

Sandra Frimmel

What does it mean? ABO DE

Marcus Quent

Belief in the world is what we most lack.

Is it possible to regain a lost belief? Is it possible to do as we will with belief? OPEN
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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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social media
subjectification
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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.

It wasn’t nature and its dangers that forced domestication and enabled the economic shrine. Temple and funerary cult, sacrifice and distribution of the meat—for Homer all sacrificial animals were still hieria, holy creatures—and the containment of wildness led to symbolic and socio-cultural change, which became the vector and motor of sedentary, food-producing communities. It wasn’t sheep, goats, or cattle that were domesticated first; it was the zoon logon echon itself that bowed to the self-created yoke of the cult. Why, we don’t know. Beyond this it’s important that unlike plants only very few species of animal can be domesticated, and that this shouldn’t be confused with taming. Economic significance develops as an epiphenomenon. It transforms from possible human sacrifice to animal sacrifice to the distribution of meat in early “Greek” antiquity, then to the obeloi (skewers with varying amounts of meat, as tokens for the priests’ or judges’ portion; even...

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