Issue 4/2007
Journal World
It has been a year since we focused here on the theoretical leitmotifs of documenta 12. A year in which questions pertaining to modernity, the status of the subject and education have experienced sometimes dramatic displacements. Since then, numerous contributions to the documenta 12 magazine project have been published here, whilst conversely efforts have also been made to engage in exchanges with other publications involved in the project. The aim here is to present an interim inventory of this multi-channel communication, along with an updated cross-section from the magazines from all over the world. In the process »Journal World« is also pursuing specific motifs in its own capacity, as was envisaged from the outset in the open pool of the magazine project with its multiple branches. The question of publishing for example crops up in ... » read more
Net section
Pseudo-democracy, the public sphere and web forums
The situation for on-line media in Southeast Asia
Keiko Sei
possibleworlds.org
The bare-life of »(post)-modern« mexican reality
Fran Ilich
The way we work on texts
A digital atelier conversation on writing in electronic formats, transcribed onto paper
Alessandro Ludovico und Nat Muller
Blank licence?
Copyright and the »economy of criminalisation«
Mariann Unterluggauer
Futures & Pasts
On the Ongoing Musealization of Punk
Christian Höller
Journal World
Dropping out instead of raising your voice?
Towards a »modern« genealogy of the many
Marco Scotini
Storytelling and translating
On the work »9 Scripts from a Nation at War« by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer
Cynthia Chris
On Chris Marker’s »Staring Back«
A. Morrisson
An elastic, flexible piece of material
The political background to Muslim fashion in Indonesia
Nuraini Juliastuti
North Korea’s »Military-First Policy« and Women’s Lives
What has happened to women in the North during the period from the early 1990s to the present? By illuminating how women in the North have changed, we might be able to imagine how a society should be organized in which women from both Koreas might live together in the near future.
Gwi-ok Kim
Camouflage turned into norm
Violence and images of women in the Algerian print media
Ghania Mouffok
»Canonizing» and »Talking« Magazines in the Turkish Context
Süreyyya Evren
Voices off: from outside the Biennale machinery
On the »Emergency Biennale in Chechnya« project and its most recent way station in Istanbul
Roland Schöny
La Nouvelle Liberté, or: Le Nju-Nju du Rond-Point
A field study on art in public space in Africa
Christian Hanussek
When a coloniser almost becomes one of the colonised
On the history of the French presence in India (1754–1954) and renewal of the post-colonial discourse
Ian H. Magedera
Július Koller, 1939–2007
With Július Koller’s death, European contemporary art is losing one of its great cosmologists, skeptics – and players
Georg Schöllhammer
Artscribe
»Date Line – Contemporary Art from the Pacific«
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
»Talking Pictures«
Theatricality in contemporary film and video works
Rainer Bellenbaum
»Society Pictures. Contemporary Painting«
Jens Kastner
Peter Friedl
»Travail 1964–2006«
Georg Schöllhammer
»Contour 2007: Decoder«
3rd Biennial for Video Art
Nat Muller
Wolfgang Tillmans
»Beugung«
Michael Hauffen
Mario Garcia Torres
»A Solo Exhibition«
Jens Emil Sennewald
»Romantic Conceptualism«
Christian Egger
Tue Greenfort – »Medusa«
Christa Benzer
»Nachvollziehungsangebote«
Christa Benzer
Books
David Joselit:
Feedback
André Rottmann
Blake Stimson und Gregory Sholette (Hg.):
Collectivism after Modernism
Jens Kastner
Hanna Hacker:
Norden. Süden. Cyberspace
Susanne Lummerding
Marie-Luise Angerer:
Vom Begehren nach dem Affekt
Ulrike Bergermann