Issue 1/2007
Other Modernities
The debate on the legacy of modernity still seems to be very much an ongoing one, both in the realm of contemporary art and in social and political life. Although for a time there was the belief that we had entered a post-modern era, over the last decade the signs have begun to change. Are we perhaps really living in the midst of a kind of remnantal modernity, however fragmented and transformed this may be? This idea seems not completely unfounded, at least with regard to aesthetics or the life-world. Or could it even be that a Second Modernity has begun, as is at times claimed in the social science discourse? In recent times, moreover, the focus of interest has shifted to the question of other, alternative concepts of modernity. In this account, other modernities are the historically under-examined and unexplored possibilities that need to... » read more
Net section
Against the random exercise of authority
Artists test the status of civil rights
Villö Huszai
More Than a Free Lunch
On current debates in the file-sharing community, the launch of the »Pirate Party« and the Berlin conference »Wizards of OS 4«
Martin Conrads
Bare-Life Innovation
The role of low-tech applications in political and social contexts
Alessandro Ludovico
In the Blue Light of the Pre-Computer Era
The first part of the DVD-R compilation »Nomaden der Zeit« by transmitter-x.org
Christa Benzer
Big Black Helicopter
The Munich project »GSA – Global Security Alliance« is studying the rampant security hysteria
Hias Wrba
This blogging business nowadays
Spectacularization of the »blogosphere«, citizen journalism and the »Bild blog«
Krystian Woznicki
Futures & Pasts
Dead-ends of the counter-culture – the work of the director Peter Whitehead
Christian Höller
Other Modernities
Meeting in a Waiting Room
Interview with the Raqs Media Collective
Cédric Vincent
Imagining Modernities
Projecting a multiple understanding of time and space
Lawrence Grossberg
Kultur und Freizeit
Andreas Fogarasi
An Ontologist Observes
A Belgrade retrospective provides the first opportunity to assess the entire oeuvre of Nesa Paripovic
Georg Schöllhammer
Not Quite Bare Life - Rules and Exemptions
Problems in representing ethnic minorities
Suzana Milevska
The Violence of Participation
Spatial practices beyond models of consensus
Markus Miessen
Stories in the Sand
The Espace Masolo cultural centre in Kinshasa supports street children and demobilised child soldiers
Dietrich Heissenbüttel
An invisible history of work
Interview with Sergio Bologna
Sabine Grimm/Klaus Ronneberger
Not back to the beginning but all over again
On the re-runs in the series »wieder und wider: performance appropriated« in MUMOK and in the Tanzquartier Wien
Christa Benzer
Understood, not in consent
On the death of the filmmaker Danièle Huillet (1st May 1936 to 9th October 2006)
Jochen Becker
Yatoo (You Are The Only One)
Obituary on the artist Zelko Wiener, who reconciled poetry and technology
Arye Wachsmuth
Artscribe
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Benjamin Paul
»Post Porn Politics«
Nicolas Siepen
Styrian Autumn 2006
Kathi Hofer
»Images of the Middle East«
Nat Muller
»Cooling Out – On the paradox of feminism« / »It’s Time for Action (There’s no Option) – About Feminism«
Edith Krebs
»Playback_Simulated Realities«
Michael Hauffen
»Jirí Kovanda Versus the Rest of the World«
Hedwig Saxenhuber
»… Concept has never meant horse «
Jens Kastner
Markus Krottendorfer »Stock Car«
Tanja Widmann
Books
Maria S. Rerrich:
Die ganze Welt zu Hause.
Susanne Karr
Guy Delisle:
Shenzhen
Martin Reiterer
Julie Ault:
Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita
Jörn Ebner
Diedrich Diederichsen, Christine Frisinghelli, Christoph Gurk, Matthias Haase, Juliane Rebentisch, Martin Saar & Ruth Sonderegger:
Golden Years
Gislind Nabakowski
Pierangelo Maset, Rebekka Reuter, Hagen Steffel (Hg.):
Corporate Difference.
Carmen Mörsch