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Il testo ignoto è una promessa

Michele Pedrazzi

The Next Bit. Corpo a corpo con l’ignoto

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

Immaginiamo di trovarci al cospetto di un “oggetto semiotico” ignoto. Potrebbe trattarsi di un dipinto, di un brano di letteratura, di un pezzo musicale, di un programma informatico, di un artefatto culturale in senso lato: poco importa al momento, ciò che ci interessa è il carattere di estraneità di questo oggetto, di cui ignoriamo al momento tutto. Attardiamoci per un attimo in questo limbo interpretativo. Nella realtà, questa sorta di tabula rasa sostanzialmente non esiste, ogni oggetto ci arriva già...

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time
music
media theory
reading
electronic music

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Dan-el Padilla Peralta

it seemed like we’d just been in some horrible dream 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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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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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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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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art theory
phenomenology
Modernism
aesthetics
art

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Jurij Pavlovich Annenkov

Hurrah!

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

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New releases

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

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

Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira: Invented Skins

Liliana Gómez (ed.), Fabienne Liptay (ed.): Eco-operations

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

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

The Subject of Capitalism

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

Monograph

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Matthew Weiner’s series Mad Men is more than a resonant time capsule. Elisabeth Bronfen’s claim is that the show not only thrives on a significant double voicing, reviving the literature, film, music and fashion of the past within and for the cultural concerns of the present. With Don Draper an...

Elisabeth Bronfen

Mad Men, Death and the American Dream

Anthology

The Question of Cohabitation

What is the current state of the subject and what about the status of its self-image? In contemporary discourses we... OPEN
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Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.)

Fragile Identities

Anthology

Fragile Identitäten

Wie ist es um die Subjektformen der Gegenwart und wie ist es um deren Selbst-Verständnis bestellt? In künstlerischen Arbeiten und wissenschaftlichen Theorien treten immer häufiger ›fragile Identitäten‹ in den Vordergrund. Sie erscheinen als Kritiken am Begriff der Identität selbst, verweisen aber vor allem auf den prekären Zustand von Subjektformen im...

Kerstin Stakemeier (ed.), Susanne Witzgall (ed.)

Fragile Identitäten

Topics

Observing the Spectator
- mirror
- optical illusion
- gaze
- observer
Autofiction—Metafiction
- Theory of fiction
- memory
- autobiography
- autofiction
- fiction
Color and meaning
Who is afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue…?
- semiotics and semiology
- color
- image and imagery
- chromatics / colour science
- monochrome
minima oeconomica
Analysen und Kritik moderner Ökonomie, deren Wissenschaft und Legitmation im Zeitalter der Finanzialisierung
- financial crisis
- economization
- economics
- economy
- discourse history
- financial markets

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Zoran Terzić

Critique of generic rationality

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

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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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Would communication beyond the semiosphere be conceivable? OPEN
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Sina Dell’Anno

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

Helmut J. Schneider

A Phenomenology of Compassion

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

Books

Sami Khatib (ed.), Holger Kuhn (ed.), ...: Critique: The Stakes of Form

Ulrike Bergermann (ed.), Monika Dommann (ed.), ...: Connect and Divide

Ian Alexander Moore (ed.), Reiner Schürmann: Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance

Jean Paul Mongin, François Schwoebel: Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius

A non-Western way of thinking

Mario Schulze (ed.), Sarine Waltenspül (ed.)

String Figures

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs

In recent years, string figures have gained prominence in cultural theory. Donna Haraway promotes string figures as a method of thinking and collaboration between both disciplines and species. Rather than the technicist and rigid metaphor of the network, Haraway’s string figures provide a playful, process-oriented, embodied, performative (and non-Western) mode of thought in which responsibility and collaboration are foregrounded.