Issue 4/2009
Turn Return
Various »turns« have long been discussed in the world of culture. Many fields ring with optimistic announcements of new paradigms and modes of observation, whether we think of »cultural«, »translational«, »participatory« or »educational« turns. It is often not clear here whether the proclaimed innovations actually are conceptual or indeed systemic turns as well, or whether areas that have been neglected or insufficiently explored to date are now simply being dragged into the limelight. Whilst realpolitik discourse taking a retrospective look at the turning point in 1989 can draw on an absolutely endless reservoir of resources, proclamations of various different cultural turns are often little more than a rhetorical ploy. That in itself is reason enough to look more closely at these turns so often cited nowadays. In the interview with cultu... » read more
Net section
Against Social Networking
Online-platforms, friends and foes.
Alessandro Ludovico
Proud to be Flesh
Pauline van Mourik Broekman and Josephine Berry Slater, editors of London-based »Mute« magazine, in an interview on the changing technological and political conditions through 15 years of the magazine on the web.
Max Jorge Hinderer
Ästhetische Manipulationen – »Microcodes«
Franz Thalmair
Stimmengewirr und Erkenntnis
Britt Schlehahn
Öffentliche Nutzpflanzen
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Die Fäden neu verknüpfen
Dietrich Heißenbüttel
Futures & Pasts
Christian Höller
Turn Return
Turn Turn Turn
Christian Höller
The Eternal Recurrence of Racism
Some reflections on the return of racism in European culture
Suzana Milevska
The Lack of the Café »Els Quatre Gats«
New/post anarchism and a certain gap In new art radicalisms
Süreyyya Evren
Kremlin Doppelgänger
Anna Jermolaewa
Abschied vom teuren Selbstbewusstsein
Herwig G. Höller
Geschichte wird gemacht
Klaus Walter
Site Sound Industry
Petra Erdmann, Christian Höller
Schritt aus der Isolation
Charlotte Bank
»What Keeps Mankind Alive«
Roland Schöny
Artscribe
»Kunst und Revolte ’89«
Elske Rosenfeld
Olga Chernysheva
Sophie Goltz
Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber
Walter Seidl
»Höhenrausch«
Walter Seidl
10. Lyon-Biennale
J. Emil Sennewald
Lutz Bacher
Michael Hauffen
»Monument to Transformation«
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
»The Death of the Audience«
Carola Platzek
»Noch mal leben. Eine Ausstellung über das Sterben«
Judith Fischer
»Reconstructed ZONE. Aktuelle Kunst zur DDR und danach«
Naoko Kaltschmidt
»Übersetzungsparadoxien und Missverständnisse«
Michael Hauffen
Books
Timothy Brook:
Vermeers Hut. Das 17. Jahrhundert und der Beginn der globalen Welt
Peter Kunitzky
Tom Holert:
Regieren im Bildraum
Petra Löffler
Jörg Fauser:
Der Strand der Städte. Gesammelte journalistische Arbeiten (1959–1987)
Gislind Nabakowski
Linda Bilda:
Keep it real
Martin Reiterer
Sylvère Lotringer (Hg.):
Semiotext(e) – The German Issue
Annette Weisser