“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 …

Naturalis Historia is the result of an ambitious multimedia research on the history of nature. Taking an encyclopedic approach, artist Pauline Julier explores several nature stories appealing to the arts and sciences to create this vast narrative. The …

Edited by Jennifer Sigler and Leah Whitman-Salkin “What’s my DNA?” Virgil Abloh asks to an overflowing auditorium at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Abloh goes on to provide his audience with a “cheat code”—advice he wishes he had rec …

„Be-Hauptungen“ zum Zustand des ICH Kappen, Mützen, Helme, Turbane, aber auch Tiere, Gebäude, Kulinarisches und Florales türmen sich virtuos über den Gesichtern und bezeichnen all die anderen. Claudia Rößger setzt diese Attribute aus dem für sie so typ …

In the 1950s, Bruno Lüdke was (erroneously) considered the »greatest mass murderer in criminal history«. The case was kept secret by the Nazis, but since the 1950s it has provided material for sensationalist media revelations and film dramatizations. T …

“Um Poema Errante / A Wandering Poem” is the printed collaboration between travelling poet Christian Marques and visual interpreter Angharad Hengyu Owen. A literary project unlike anything that has ever been published, it embodies a bi-disciplinary re- …

A meditation on racism—provocative, poetic, and a literary sensation in America. The US American author Claudia Rankine describes forms of racist aggression in everyday life and in the media. Some of them seem random, others are deliberate attacks—in t …

Die vorliegende Publikation erscheint im Rahmen der Ausstellung “Alexander Kluge. Gärten der Kooperation” im Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart: einer umfassenden Einzelausstellung des Schriftstellers, Filmemachers und Theoretikers Alexander Kluge …

We now have the technology to reach nearby planets. Even though many long-term technical issues still need to be solved to create the conditions for a permanent, self-sustaining human presence on another planet, imagining humans as a multi-planetary sp …

To mark the occasion of Alexander Kluge’s eighty-fifth birthday, the Museum Folkwang is organizing a comprehensive show of the work of the film-maker, writer, philosopher, and artist. The exhibition is an introduction to Kluge’s artistic “pluriverse” and sets out to illustrate his main methods, themes, and conceptual approaches, with the central focus on his filmic collages. The accompanying book picks up on the themes addressed in the exhibition and concentrates on the principle of work collaboration, which is of key importance for Kluge: the process of “thinking together” with academics and artists, such as Thomas Demand, Georg Baselitz, and Ben Lerner. Both the book and the exhibition are being produced in close collaboration with Alexander Kluge. “Alexander Kluge: Pluriverse” is at the Museum Folkwang Essen from 15 September 2017 to 7 January 2018 and at the 21er Haus in Vienna from February to April 2018. With texts by Leslie A. Adelson, Christoph Streckhardt, Richard Langston, Ben Lerner, Alexander Kluge, Anna Fricke, a.o. 24.00 €

Little Warsaw: Rebels In the heady days following the fall of communism in Hungary, students at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts decided to take action. The student rebellion illustrates, in miniature, all the conflicts that abounded during this peri …