Fillip #18. Kristina Lee Podesva (Ed.). Jeff Khonsary.
Spring 2013
Martha Langford, Sven Lütticken, Hassan Khan, Bassam El Baroni, Matthew Buckingham, David Harvey, and Petra Stavast
Issue no. 18 also includes a booklet of images from Charlotte Cheetham’s Slide Shows: A Landscape of Contemporary Independent & Art Publishing.
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Die Kurzfassung des Inhaltes:
– Timbuktu muss warten: Vier Karawanen, ein Tuareg und ein Schlangenei: Warum das Pulverfass Mali zwingend hochgehen musste.
Von Michael Stührenberg
– Zwischen zwei Müttern: Als Baby gestohlen und verschenkt, als Jugendlicher mit der Wahrheit konfrontiert: Ein argentinisches Schicksal.
Von Erwin Koch
– Singapurs Putzfrauen: Unter prekären Bedingungen gehalten, machen die Maids der Expats deren Erfolg erst möglich.
Von Milena Moser
– Die Zellen meiner Schwester: Wenn der eigene Körper zum Feind wird. Ein Selbsterfahrungsbericht.
Von Christian Schmidt
– Walsaison: Auf den Färöer-Inseln ist die Grindwaljagd der Höhepunkt des Jahres. Tierschutz und Tradition prallen dabei aufeinander.
Von Linus Reichlin
-Bayrisches Requiem: Eine Autobahn führt bald durch das idyllische Isental – Melkstuhlromantik und Grossstadtleben wachsen zusammen.
Von Sabine Riedel
-Hügel 875: Die historische Reportage – von 1930
Von Oriana Fallaci
-Autorin im Gespräch: Milena Moser
-Das Objekt: Am Anfang dieser kleinen Reportage steht die Welt. Genauer gesagt: ein 450-jähriger, über zwei Meter hoher Globus, der im Landesmuseum Zürich zu sehen ist. Unser Autor Urs Mannhart, der gerne musealen Gegenständen nachspürt, landete auf den Spuren dieser Erdkugel hinter dicken Klostermauern – und stiess auf einen zähen, interkantonalen Streit und eine handwerklich bestrickende Schöpfungsgeschichte.
Von Urs Mannhart
-Keine Geschichte: Er gilt als der Billigste der Stadt. 25 Franken kostet ein Haarschnitt, dazu gibt es Tee und Stille. Die Angestellten, die gerade keine Kundschaft haben, sitzen in Lederstühlen und blicken zum Flachbildschirm, der seit neun Jahren an der Decke hängt und das neuste Gerät ist in Coiffeur Salehs Laden an der Josefstrasse 141, Kreis 5, Zürich, 30 Quadratmeter Syrien, 3000 Kilometer von Syrien entfernt.
Von Florian Leu
-Claudio Calabrese: Am 3. März haben wir es der Welt wieder einmal gezeigt. Das Schweizer Stimmvolk hat die Abzocker aus den Chefetagen der Grosskonzerne in die Schranken gewiesen, sie Mores gelehrt. Die direkte Demokratie zeigte ihre Zähne. Fast jeder und jede dritte Stimmberechtigte stimmte für die Initiative von Mundwassermann Minder. Ex-Botschafter Borer attestierte den Schweizern danach im «Spiegel» ein «sehr grosses Gerechtigkeitsgefühl». Wir sind das einzig wahrlich souveräne Volk der Welt. Müsste man meinen.
Von Claudio Calabrese
Editor: Daniel Puntas Bernet
Language: German
Pages: 144
Price: €15.00
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History of Animals: An Essay on Negativity, Immanence and Freedom. Oxana Timofeeva. Jan van Eyck Academie.
“The question of the animal is the question of subjectivity and power. It provokes a particular tension between philosophical ontology, politics and psychoanalysis, and it is interesting to track how in the unstable field of the ‘human’ animality produces itself in a radical way. Gainsaying the fact that animality has traditionally been consigned to non-historical nature, animals have a history. But the logic of this history does not conform to the optimism of the humanistic discourse of progressive liberation and emancipation of animals that would finally secure their rights. Quite the contrary; it seems rather that from ancient totemism, through the sequence of exclusions and inclusions, to the present tragedy and farce that combine slaughterhouses, pet shops and global touristic safaris, animals have had a bad ‘career’. Historically, they failed. But this point of failure
is at the same time a point of departure – for the new history of metaphysics, for the new materialist politics of nature, for the new horizon of the human animal.”
Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
Designed by Luisa Lorenza Corna
Pages: 168
ISBN: 978-90-72076-72-4
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Notes From a Revolution: Com/Co, The Diggers & The Haight. David Hollander & Kristine McKenna. Foggy Notion Books & Fulton Ryder, Inc.
The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis’s subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.
The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.
A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.
Edited by David Hollander
& Kristine McKenna
Introduction by Peter Coyote
Essay by Naomi Wolf
Conversation with Claude Hayward
by Kristine McKenna
Flexi-bound / 8 1/2 x 11″
/ 176 pages / 150 color images
ISBN 978-0-9835870-3-3
Published by Foggy Notion Books
in partnership with Fulton Ryder, Inc.
Price: €42.50
SOUTH as a State of Mind grew up fast to become a bi-annual contemporary arts and culture magazine published by Epomenos Stathmos (Greece) and Phileleftheros Publishers (Cyprus) and distributed internationally. People from different -literal or metaphorical- Souths are renegotiating the southern attitude, partly to define it and partly to invent it. Possessed by a spirit of absurd authority, we are trying to contaminate the prevailing culture with ideas that derive from southern mythologies, such as the perfect climate, easy living, chaos and the dramatic temperament, to name but a few. Each 160-page issue includes a thematic section and columns inspired and named after key traits of southern life. Through our twisted – and southern – attitude, expressed through critical essays, artist projects, interviews and features, we would like to give form to the concept of the South as a state of mind rather than a set of fixed places on the map. Opening up an unexpected dialogue among neighbourhoods, cities, regions and approaches, SOUTH as a State of Mind is both a magazine and a meeting point for shared intensities.
This issue features: ARCADIA, Juergen Teller, Anafi, Martin Kippenberger, Temenos, and others
Author: Marina Fokidis (ed.)
Language: English
Pages: 160
Size: 23 x 32 cm
Price: €10.00
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Reportagen #8.
Including:
8.1 Im Camp der Gerechten: In Guantánamo richten die USA über die Nummer zwei der al-Kaida. Der Augenzeugenbericht eines zensierten Prozesses. Von Mattathias Schwartz
8.2 High Heels am Hindukusch: Weniger Burkas, freiere Rede: Afghanistans Gratwanderung zwischen Taliban und Mädchenschulen. Von Roger Willemsen
8.3 Gefängnis der Liebe: Im kolumbianischen Gefängnis Casa Blanca sitzen Männer neben Frauen ein: Von der Liebe unter Verbrechern. Von José Alejandro Castaño
8.4 Team Ruanda:Hutu und Tutsi treten in der ruandischen Fahrradmannschaft gemeinsam gegen das Trauma des Genozids an. Von Philip Gourevitch
8.5 Anleitung für Fälscher: Wenn Händler, Sammler und Kunstfälscher zusammenarbeiten, gelingt der Coup: Ein Kurs in sechs Lektionen. Von Linus Reichlin
8.6 Schwerelos: Mit dem Wiener Literaten erleben wir die Aufhebung der Schwerkraft im Parabelflug: 23 Sekunden schweben! Von Clemens Berger.
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Notes towards a Critique of Money
The analysis in Notes towards a Critique of Money highlights the functions of money both in the organization of the capitalist symbolic order and in the constitution of subjectivity in the market.
Combining Lacanian psychoanalysis and Baudrillardian structuralism, the book creates a universe where price and sign are entangled, giving rise to the dominant organizing form of capitalism. The fantasmatic management of desire enforces this structural principle on the subjective level and encourages the libidinal investment in the dominant representations of social reality as they are produced by the combined principles of signification and economic valuation. Here, money signifies the particular content that hegemonizes the universal ideological construction of capitalism providing a particular and accessible meaning to economic value, which colours the very universality of the system of prices and accounts for its efficiency.
Being conscious of the limitations of the theoretical analysis, the book employs along with rational arguments a series of artworks that are used both to illustrate the argument and to challenge the unconscious links between the market and the subject, as it is mediated by money and ideology. Notes towards a Critique of Money does not only aspire to raise a theoretical challenge against capital and to open up possibilities of emancipation, but to point towards a new aesthetic of political analysis.
2011
English
142 pages
Paperback
Edition: 600
15€
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Censorship Daily: Netherlands – Iran. Jan Dirk van der Burg.
“My friend Thomas Erdbrink lives in Iran and subscribes to the ‘Islamic’ edition of NRC Handelsblad. When the sealed newspaper lands on his doormat in Tehran, its contents have already been secretly checked by the Iranian authorities. They do so seeking images that are unsuitable for the eyes of inhabitants of the Islamic Republic. Forbidden items used to be carefully suppressed using scissors, a ruler and blue stickers.
Photos would be left intact insofar as possible, only covering the parts that were absolutely necessary. Each civil servant would go to work with scissors and stickers in their own way. The quantity of bare leg that could be shown seemed to vary for no apparent reason, and sometimes the odd picture of genitals would slip through unnoticed.
A year ago, the blue stickers stopped appearing. For reasons unknown, the newspaper is no longer censored in this way. And so, as a mark of respect, I now present the best examples of old-fashioned censorship, handcrafted by Iranian civil servants.” – Jan Dirk van der Burg
Selected by Jan Dirk van der Burg
Graphic Design: Cobbenhagen Hendriksen
41 x 30,5 cm
2 colour offset
16 pages
Revolution: A Reader, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler (eds.), published by Paraguay Press.
Revolution: A Reader collects texts from across many cultures and times and organizes them roughly along a chronology of living, from “beginning,” to “childhood,” “education,” “adulthood,” and “death.” The book brings the embodied fact of revolution into the lived present by engaging readers with language that takes us there, no matter where we are to begin with. We are all in revolution, now.
Reading can make this fact primary and conscious and shared. Heavily annotated throughout, the book is, quite literally, a conversation. The annotations, by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler — composed simultaneously and in response to one another — stitch a web of argument that links the book into a single thing, a reader. The book also features a narrative bibliography of revolution by David Brazil.
D 28 €
U-BARN by Öyvind Fahlström, published by OEI editör
OEI editör in collaboration with Amundön presents the first DVD edition of Öyvind Fahlström’s short film U-BARN from 1968. This edition also includes three booklets with an essay on Fahlström’s relation to film (in fact the first more comprehensive essay on this subject), an interview with Stefan Jarl (who was production manager for U-BARN), and transcriptions in Swedish and English of the dialogue track in the film, as well as images and documents related to Fahlström’s film productions in Sweden.
While well-known for his inventive and various visual art (paintings, collages, installations), for his concrete poetry and his “concretist” manifesto “Hätila ragulpr på fåtskliaben” (“HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY”) from 1953, and, at least in some contexts, for his radio art, happenings, and plays, Fahlström’s relation to film belongs to the more unexplored territories of his multifarious work. Even so, film was part of his aesthetic interests from the very beginning, and it was an interest that would linger on during the decades to come. Eventually, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, it would also result in the production of a handful of films, of which the most well-known is perhaps Du gamla, du fria (“Provocation”) from 1972.
U-BARN, though, is Fahlström’s most experimental and complex film. The dialogue is extremely literal and embedded in specific contexts of learning and protest. As a conventional subtitling would be impossible due to Fahlström’s highly complex sound work, which actively resists a normalizing treatment, we have chosen to publish the dialogue track as a transcription in a separate booklet (in Swedish as well as in English).
Languages: Swedish & English
D 17 €