Issue 3/2001
Global Players
»We will declare war on all those who do not share our values.«Shortly after the monstrous attack on the World Trade Center, a senior U.S. politician made this »para bellum« statement on all channels. It would appear that the political philosopher Carl Schmitt and the cultural warrior Samuel Huntington have replaced the economists Joseph Schumpeter and Friedrich Hayek as the mentors of western desire for global power. Schmitt's hegemon no longer takes up arms against the »enemy«on its borders in a military and economic sense alone. For »become like us,« the leitmotif of western policies, which Dejan Jovic analyzes in this issue in connection with the transition of the former socialist nations of Eastern Europe, no longer calls wealth, welfare and democracy »our« values, but aims at another universal: culture. Jeff Derksen outlines in his... » read more
Net section
Discreetly Quitting the Field
Notes on the death of net.art
Olga Goriunova
Mailing Lists in a State of Change, or:
»...has unsuscribed from syndicate«
Vera Tollmann
Controlled Dissimultaneity
Contemporary historical and locational determination of electronic culture as exemplified by this year's Sonár Festival
Christian Höller
Filling the Space with Sound
The reopened Klangturm in the Lower Austrian provincial capital of St. Pölten
Petra Erdmann
The Endless Summer
or, how the political dimensions of the ape metaphor in cyberculture are being rationalized away
Krystian Woznicki
Global Players
From the »Commodification of Everything« to »Everything Is Being Made Cultural«
Jeff Derksen
Museum for the Blind, or the Global Guggenheim
Konstantin Akinsha
A Museum Quarter in Liverpool - The Albert Dock and the Liverpool Tate Gallery
From Warehouse to Cultural Repository
Martin Reiterer
MOMAS. MOMAS?
An excerpt from the architectural novel »A Rat Called Apple«
Franz Kneissl
The Allegorical Impulse of the Curator
An interview with Fareed Armaly
Helmut Draxler
The Question of Going (on) without History
Mathias Poledna's exhibition "Actualité" at the Graz Kunstverein
Matthias Dusini
Of Mechanics and Marionettes/or A dramalette about a spirit world of today
Alice Creischer's "The Greatest Happiness Principle Party" in the Secession in Vienna
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Travelling Multiculturalism
A Debate in Translation
Robert Stam & Ella Shohat
The Horror. The Horror.
Films about the American War in Vietnam
Jochen Becker
»Be like us«
The Process of So-Called Transition in Eastern Europe
Dejan Jovic
Trans-Adriatic Alliance
The Tirana Biennale 2001
Hedwig Saxenhuber
Suspended Adolescence
Three »Belgrade photos« by Phil Collins
Branislav Dimitrijevic
Artscribe
Dierk Schmidt: Ich weiß was ... was du nicht weißt
Raimar Stange
Antagonismes – Case Studies
Jan Verwoert
Stan Douglas: Le Détroit
Bert Rebhandl
Neue Welt
Susanne Jäger
Georges Adéagbo: Das Pythagoreische Zeitalter
Christian Kravagna
Kai Althoff: Aus Dir
Petra Löffler
Jun Yang: Coming Home. Daily Structures of Life – Version D oo
Sønke Gau
Candice Breitz: Cuttings
Eleonora Louis
Aztlán Today – The Chicano Postnation
Gerald Echterhoff
freestyle
Martin Conrads
Volxhochschule
Christa Benzer
double life – Identität und Transformation in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Judith Fischer
Objekte – Skulptur in Österreich nach 45
Susanne Neuburger
Hans Weigand: Cotton 2001
Angelika Bartl
Harun Farocki »Schöpfer der Einkaufswelten«
Roger M. Buergel
Books
Benjamin Buchloh:
Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry
Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
Noah Chasin
Alain Badiou:
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Judith Fischer
Nico J. Berger, Sabine Hark, Antke Engel, Corinna Genschel, Eva Schäfer:
Queering Demokratie
Sabine Rohlf
supposé - Verlag + Label für Audiophilosophie:
Diverse CDs und 12-Inches
Christian Höller