Issue 4/2017
Global Limits
Growth and prosperity. That is probably the most concise way to summarize the predominant political ideology today, irrespective of any kind of political left/right ascriptions. Everything is supposed to grow constantly, first and foremost the economy, for then everything flourishes, including art. We have all earned a certain level of prosperity, or rather we all increasingly shoulder an ever-growing degree of individual responsibility for that prosperity. And if this desirable state of affairs ever begins to falter, the purported culprits are rapidly identified (refugees, “benefit scroungers” and others that are a drain on our resources). Yet growth and prosperity, as largely valid ideologemes unquestioningly accepted by all, have long been confronted to a dramatic degree with their limitations. This concerns a much more fundamental leve... » read more
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Zweifelhafte Avatare
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Catching Eyes
Ellen Wagner
„Nicht alle Macht beginnt am Griff einer Waffe“
Gislind Nabakowski
Was das Herz will
Christian Höller
Irony and the Alt-right
The transgressive masks of reactionary techno-futurism
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Global Limits
Dark Ecology
Interview with Timothy Morton on counter-productive environmental thinking, overcoming species fixation, and solidarity with the non-human
Christian Höller
Skins
Ines Doujak
Empathy Machines
Emergent Organs for an Eco-Body?
Brian Holmes
Earth Online
Vera Tollmann
Über Devastierung
Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova
Alternative Realism
Interview with Cultural and Media Studies Scholar McKenzie Wark on Social Challenges of the Anthropocene
Pascal Jurt
Sphären des Aufstands (Teil eins)
Suely Rolnik
Sphären des Aufstands (Teil zwei)
Suely Rolnik
Neinsagen-Lernen als ästhetisches Ereignis
Yvonne Volkart
Artscribe
Adrian Piper – The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1–3
Jörn Ebner
Alexander Kluge – Pluriversum
Gislind Nabakowski
Elke Marhöfer/Mikhail Lylov – Quantum Aufmerksamkeit
Moritz Scheper
Shannon Ebner – Stray
Hedwig Saxenhuber
William Kentridge – Thick Time
Georg Schöllhammer
Rudolf Weidenauer – CIRCUMSTANZA
Christian Egger
Martin Beck – rumors and murmurs
Bettina Brunner
Oh... Jakob Lena Knebl und die mumok Sammlung
Johannes Porsch
Nicole Eisenman – Dark Light
Max L. Feldman
Jimmie Durham – God’s Children, God’s Poems
Yuki Higashino
Books
Herausgegeben von Peter Haury für Oberwelt e.V.:
ALBREcHt/d.
Justin Hoffmann
Yvonne P. Doderer:
Glänzende Städte
Gabriele Hoffmann
Sønke Gau:
Institutionskritik als Methode
Peter Kunitzky
Frédéric Pajak:
Ungewisses Manifest 1–2
Martin Reiterer