Issue 3/2016
Endless Present?
Endless present? What at first sight may appear nonsensical—for how should the Here and Now extend endlessly?—can be found with increasing frequency over the last few years as a diagnosis of our times. It generally suggests that we (in the rich West) have entered into a kind of history-free state where the prime issue at stake is defending what has been attained. Everything extending beyond that, such as an emancipatory awareness directed to a better future, is allegedly nothing but flights of fancy from the past that we should abandon as quickly as possible. In this context, the idea of an unlimited Now is nurtured on several fronts. From the philosophy of history perspective, for example, there are claims that our reference system of past and future—once the driving force of any kind of historical consciousness—is increasingly evaporatin... » read more
Net section
Post-Internet Music
Medium, Message, or Both?
Adam Harper
Auf dem Weg zur Zielgesellschaft?
Julia Gwendolyn Schneider
Sprech- und Hörhandeln
Franz Thalmair
VJs, MedienkünstlerInnen: Die wollen nur spielen!
Anita Hafner
Bewegungskontrolle
Krystian Woznicki
Endless Present?
Gegen den Tag
Karin Harrasser
Self-Help Hotlines
Camille Henrot
Productive Presentism
Jeff Derksen
What Presence?!
Jochen Becker, Stephan Dillemuth, Christian Höller, Radostina Patulova, Jo Schmeiser
Change – Now!
Hans-Christian Dany
Speculation and Counter-Speculation
Joshua Simon
I Want You(r) Now!
Süreyyya Evren
Zeichnungen
Julie Mehretu
Artscribe
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 1887–2058
Sabine Maria Schmidt
Bittersüße Transformation
Sabine Weier
Ana Hoffner – Exhausted Time
Marlene Rigler
Louis Henderson – Kinesis
Monika Vykoukal
John Akomfrah
Jörn Ebner
Adidal Abou-Chamat – Intersections
Gabriele Hoffmann
Europäische Geister – die Präsentation von Kunst aus Afrika im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert
Dierk Schmidt
Zum russischen Pavillon bei der Architektur-Biennale 2016
Herwig G. Höller
Über die Unmöglichkeit des Seins
Christa Benzer
Books
Hg. von Henning Schmidgen. Übersetzt von Ronald Voullié:
Schriften zur Kunst
Dagmar Danko
Andrew Blauvelt (Hg.):
Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
Yuki Higashino
David Graeber:
Bürokratie. Die Utopien der Regeln
Peter Kunitzky
Geoffroy de Lagasnerie:
Die Kunst der Revolte. Snowdon, Assange, Manning
Gislind Nabakowski
Clemens Apprich:
Vernetzt. Zur Entstehung der Netzwerkgesellschaft
Franz Thalmair