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The Sublime of the Political – Narrative and Autoethnography as Theory
In an age of immediate and global exchange of information, the ability to theorise about political conditions remains largely an elite, technocratic, and esoteric enterprise. In …
The Work That Plants Do – Life, Labour, and the Future of Vegetal Economies
Whether driven by developments in plant science, bio-philosophy, or broader societal dynamics, plants have to respond to a litany of environmental, social, and economic challenges. …
Psychopolitics of Speech – Uncivil Discourse and the Excess of Desire
The human capacity for speech is forever celebrated as evidence of its innate civility. Why, then, is public discourse often - and today more than ever, it would seem - so uncivil, …
Border Wall Aesthetics – Artworks in Border Spaces
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we live in a time of globalization and free trade. Nevertheless, 70 new border walls have been built in this period - put together, they …
The Game of Urban Regeneration – Culture & Community in London 2012 and Berlin's Mediaspree
Who wins and who loses in urban regeneration? What are the mechanisms at play?Francesca Weber-Newth looks at two neighbourhoods that are adjacent to large-scale regeneration …
Zwischen Provinz und Staatstheater
Taking Stakes in the Unknown – Tracing Post–Black Art
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious …
Security in the Anthropocene
The belief that "Nature" exists as a blank, stable stage upon which humans act out tragic performances of international relations is no longer tenable. In a world defined by human …
Van Gogh TV’s “Piazza Virtuale”
Piazza virtuale by the group of artists known as Van Gogh TV was not only the biggest art project ever to appear on television, but from a contemporary point of view the project …
Actor & Avatar
Complicity
Occupy, Commons and other social experiments show: New collectivities are invented and tested. Gesa Ziemer enriches this debate through the insight that in the process, the …
Courting Dissolution
Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard …