Issue 2/2020
Come Together!
At present, it almost seems as if the isolation of individuals in an era of neoliberal cognitive capitalism has found its most striking biopolitical form to date in the social regimes imposed by the pandemic: Isolation, mistrust, competition, fear and precarization define social space. Personal and state surveillance are part-and-parcel of everyday life, national responses to the global crisis are the general rule. Forms of governmentality rooted in categorisation and cartography of the social realm as a threat; Big Data, data analysis and data mining techniques are now presented as methods within a new economy of the common good and as indispensable to healing the world, and are thus normalised. Political discourse stylizes the social realm as serving “us” as a community in the sense of the communitarian “good society”. The Other is left o... » read more
Net section
We Are Left with a Feeling of Nakedness
A look behind the interfaces of the tech giants with net artist Joana Moll
Sabine Weier
Artists & Agents – Performance and Surveillance
Sabine Maria Schmidt
In Our Back the Ruins of Our Future
About the Project Europamaschine at Vienna’s Burgtheater
Christian Höller
Faitiche est. 2008
The Dancing Enlightenment Aesthetics of Jan Jelinek
Stefan Römer
Return to the Immaterial?
About the Exhibition Les Immatériaux (1985)
Andreas Broeckmann
Come Together!
The Future is Now
Weak Resistance of the Common in an Uncertain Future
Ewa Majewska
The Last Great Comet
Reflections on Our Enlightened Existential Indifference
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
The Elimination of the Family
Image Gallery and Text Excerpt
Nicoleta Esinencu und Antosea Darca unter Mitarbeit von Elena Anmeghichean, Cătălina Bucos, Doina-Romanța Dochitan, Nora Dorogan, Ciprian Marinescu, Kira Semionov, Elena Sîrbu, Doriana Talmazan, Artio
„What’s at Stake is Liberation not Freedom!“
Interview with Françoise Vergès
Françoise Vergès im Gespräch mit J. Emil Sennewald
On Our Way to a New Mentality
Anna Daučíková
On Allomorphing
Image Gallery
Anna Daučíková
Gathering and Commoning
Forms and Formats of Training for the Future
Christoph Chwatal
Commoning the City
Reinventing Togetherness
Stavros Stavrides
Being Together Precedes Being
Image Gallery on Jewish-Arab-European Solidarity
Joshua Simon
Dyslexic Thoughts
About Broken Threads by Fani Zguro
Anri Sala
Artscribe
Making FASHION Sense
Yvonne Volkart
Bunny Rogers – King Kingdom
Patricia Grzonka
LACHEN
Bettina Brunner
Wally Salner – Abendakt 19h
Christian Egger
Jeremiah Day – If It’s For The People, It Needs To Be Beautiful, She Said
Carmela Thiele
Uriel Orlow – Conversing with Leaves
Jörn Ebner
Hans Haacke – All Connected
Ana Hoffner
Eva Grubinger – Malady of the Infinite; Henrike Naumann – Das Reich
Teresa Retzer
The Cindy Sherman Effect
Ada Karlbauer
... von Brot, Wein, Autos, Sicherheit und Frieden
Christa Benzer
Books
Grégoire Chamayou:
Die unregierbare Gesellschaft. Eine Genealogie des autoritären Liberalismus
Jens Kastner
Mark J. Sedgwick:
Gegen die moderne Welt
Peter Kunitzky
Christina Thürmer-Rohr:
Fremdheiten und Freundschaften. Essays
Gislind Nabakowski
Benjamin Dix/Lindsay Pollock:
Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Martin Reiterer