Aby Warburg’s famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented art history transcripts of the 20th century. But while Warburg’s essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art history, to a wider public—especially in Europe—little is known about its source, the snake ritual and its history. A Kind of World War is dedicated to what Aby Warburg largely ignored himself: that not only the ritual, but also the images of the ritual—to whose global distribution Warburg contributed—have a political history. The volume seeks to demonstrate that Warburg’s art history, insofar it outlines an internal history of the European psyche, must be read in conjunction with its external counterpart, the history of colonization, war and cultural entanglement.

Aby Warburg’s famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented art history transcripts of the 20th century. But while Warburg’s essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art history, to a wider public—especially in Europe—little is known about its source, the snake ritual and its history. A Kind of World War is dedicated to what Aby Warburg largely ignored himself: that not only the ritual, but also the images of the ritual—to whose global distribution Warburg contributed—have a political history. The volume seeks to demonstrate that Warburg’s art history, insofar it outlines an internal history of the European psyche, must be read in conjunction with its external counterpart, the history of colonization, war and cultural entanglement.

Stadt, Land, Kneipe (German for ~ Urban, Rural, Saloon) is a mischievous roman à tiroirs that starts in Berlin and ends in a Bavarian village. There and in between, the protagonist hovers in a saloon state-of-mind, a condition that permeates the urban …

Künstlerbuch mit 20 farbigen Zeichnungen von Wiebke Kowal und Gedichten von Stefan Wartenberg (dt.) im Digitaldruck, gestaltet von Katrin Erthel Broschur, 46 Seiten, 18,5×23 cm, Auflage 300 Erschienen 10/2021 ISBN 978-3-945111-69-7

Die Anthologie versammelt sechs bislang nicht übersetzte Kurzgeschichten der chinesischen Science-Fiction, die das Genre repräsentieren und uns erlauben, einen Blick auf eine andere Zukunft zu werfen – visionär, mutig und inspirierend. Der Band umfasst …

MODERN ANIMAL knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people–bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class–encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine. The result is a revolutionary appro …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the collective sustenance of life, and reimagines the carrier bag as a tool for telling strangely realistic fictions. New writings and images respond to Le Guin’s narrative practice of world­making through gathering and holding.

Author Vítezslav Nezval (1900 – 1958) is considered one of the most important figures in the Czech avantgarde. Barbara Bausch and Eva Dymáková have now produced the first complete German version of Akrobat, the cycle of poems Nezval published in 1927. …

As a literary theorist, Sergei Tretyakov is one of the leading lights in the left-wing art avant-garde. Few people know that he was also one of the most active literary cartographers of the early Soviet Union and its Asian and European neighbours. On t …

Not a comicbook, but literally illustrated text, “Street Cop,” written by Robert Coover and inhabited by Art Spiegelman. It’s a book you’ve been waiting for. Its inventiveness never ceases, and it reaches beyond the page: what more do you need? A marve …

“Before every beginning, many other beginnings will lie. The word ‘ark’, as in Noah’s Ark, derives from the Latin word for box, arca. And this box was also some kind of archive structure. A heritage backup. The concept of reproduction is crucial for No …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the …

What if humanity’s primary inven­tions were not the Hero’s spear but rather a basket of wild oats, a medicine bundle, a story. Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction presents a feminist story of technology that centres on the …

”To my astonishment, there are but few charismatic idols in the 400-year tradition of the bourgeois industrial revolution: Washington, Jefferson, the women in the Paris marketplace in 1789—those female freedom fighters marching on Versailles and bringi …

Just as physical violence leaves its marks on the skin, conceptual violence is written into interfaces via algorithms—in the form of biases turned into pixels, as discrimi­nation implanted in memes in secret chat groups. The coding and decoding of body …

This book looks at the uncanny, at all the things, in other words, that “are meant to remain hidden and have become apparent”—made evident, above all, by unforeseen relationships, lines of connection, and the breaking down of borders: between the prese …

This book explores the personal and political unrest of the early twenty-first century. Claudia Rankine crafts a hybrid of autobiographical essay and lyrical meditation to track the loneliness that is prevalent today: a reflection on the interplay of d …

From today’s perspective, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 – 1975) comes across as one of the most productive and exhilarating talents in twentieth-century art. He continues to be both an inspiring and provocative figure not only for his wide-ranging virtuosi …

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 is expansive anthology focused on concrete poetry written by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin America, and the United States selected …

Jeder, der schon einmal laut über Max Kerstings geniale Verknüpfungen von Wort und Bild gelacht hat, wird sofort zum Fan seiner eigenwilligen und originellen Kunst. Gefundenen Fotografien verleiht er neuen Sinn mit seinen hinzugeschriebenen Sprech- und …

Euer neues Magazin für Literatur als Kraftsport ist da! Sichert euch jetzt euren Platz im GYM – 158 Seiten starke Texte von: Esma AHMEDI, Marlies BLAUTH, Alexandra BOLENA, Heinrich BREUER, Michael DUSZAT, Carlo Maximilian ENGELÄNDER, Henrik FAILMEZGER, …

The texts and images presented here are part of Blossom, a collaboration between the artist Thomas Demand and writer Ben Lerner. The images relate to a detail from a photograph of Katherine Russell, widow of Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev leaving her hom …

Forty days on a container ship from Hamburg to Qingdao, China. Photographer Michael Disqué and writer Roman Ehrlich do not simply document a journey, they create an essay of images and words pondering the political context of global freight traffic, th …

The book of photos and texts is dedicated to the Thomas Mann House in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. Francis Nenik’s essay offers the first detailed description of the history of the house in which Thomas Mann lived with his family from 1942 to 1952 …

Als “Nothing Personal”, das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe. Was wol …

Author Marcel Beyer gets us to witness an evening at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg attended by a host of celebrities—a reception in honour of Andreas Gursky. In his waspish descriptions of the images, the writer, who relies on widely disseminated and easil …

Die drei Gewinnertexte des True Story Award 2019. Aus 924 Reportagen in 21 Sprachen aus 98 Nationen. Mit einem Vorwort von Jon Lee Anderson. Shura Burtin über die Geschichte eines Lehrers und Boxtrainers, der im Tschetschenienkrieg zum Guerillakämpfer …

Academic literary institutes are among the most important institutions in the contemporary world of literature. Now that the oldest writing schools have been training authors for around twenty years, the “prose institute” and its originators have made …

Filmrisse. So heißt das erste Buch des Autors Ronny Elstermann. Die aus dem Jugendlichen- und Heranwachsendenalter berichtende Autobiografie erzählt in sieben Kapiteln in authentisch kantiger Erzählweise von Erlebnissen nach intensivem Alkoholkonsum, m …

»Kulturell motivierte Tätigkeiten sollten nicht nur das Aufsuchen gemütlicher gesellschaftlicher Zusammenkünfte umfassen, sondern auch eine gehörige Portion Action, kombiniert mit der Frage: Wo fangen eigentlich unsere fest geglaubten gesellschaftliche …

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If Antonin Artaud could read Die Politiker, he would turn somersaults: no one has found a more kindly tone for the Theatre of Cruelty. Wolfram Lotz, (b. 1981 in Hamburg), was raised in Bad Rippoldsau in the Black Forest. The son of a pharmacist, Lotz w …

The Beach Bum follows the outrageous misadventures of Moondog (Matthew McConaughey), a rebellious burnout who only knows how to live life by his own rules. Complete with an all-star cast including Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Zac Efron, Jimmy Buffett, Mart …

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new mean …

Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke With photographs by Leonore Mau “Fichte did away with the opposition between objective and poetic writing—his heightened objectivity becomes poetic, his poetry journalistic. He wrote to fight against …

Kolkata: City of Print is a literary essay by Mara Züst realized through research conducted during several stays in Kolkata and focused on different aspects of the print medium in this Indian city. Formerly known as Calcutta, the city was founded as a …

Chicago 1968 represents, perhaps as no other moment in American history, the flashpoint of cultural resistance to a militarized world out of control. In the summer of 1968, still reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy o …

How do you tell the story of a friendship? How do you trace the roots of one of the most significant cross-disciplinary unions in fashion today? Artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons did just that when they sat on stage with curator Jess …

This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994. For Yoko Ono, words, artworks, a …

Dieser Band versammelt die lange vergriffenen Einzelwerke Am Nullpunkt der Literatur, Literatur oder Geschichte und Kritik und Wahrheit aus der frühen Periode des Barthesschen Werkes und macht sie wieder zugänglich. Hier wird der zentrale Begriff der » …

Roland Barthes gehört zu den Klassikern der Photographietheorie. Insbesondere sein spätes Meisterwerk Die helle Kammer hat die Debatten der letzten Jahrzehnte bestimmt und ihre Grundfragen formuliert. Weniger bekannt ist, dass Barthes zeit seines Leben …

Im Zentrum der hier versammelten Essays stehen die für Roland Barthes zentralen Problematiken der Sprache und des Schreibens.

»Das Wetter – Magazin für Text und Musik ist ein längst stilbildendes Organ für ästhetische Zeitgenossenschaft.« Dieses Buch versammelt 22 bemerkenswerte Texte aus fünf Jahren und 16 Ausgaben »Das Wetter – Magazin für Text und Musik« + einen Bonustrack …

STILL is an independent magazine featuring inventive writing and photography. The artists published by the magazine challenge creative conventions in form or content and include an eclectic range of creators working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essa …

STILL is an independent magazine featuring inventive writing and photography. The artists published by the magazine challenge creative conventions in form or content and include an eclectic range of creators working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essa …

Trefferia – a made up word – mixing the words Treff and Cafeteria together. Appropriated from a cafeteria-like meeting place with filter coffee, beer and cold smoke. For Wilhelm Klotzek an ideal place to invite his own works to. Central to this book is …