The issue 6 of ...ment, guest edited by writer and editor Rebecca Bligh, is dedicated to Transfeminism, as an emergent thinking of radical, gendered alterity. In discussing a theme for this issue of ...ment, we decided that the call for contributions should include an invitation for responses to Paul B. Preciado’s Testo Junkie. The book raises crucial questions about identity and post-identity politics, current (and future) trajectories in ‘feminist political theorising’, and the production of masculinities. As such, we were interested in using Testo Junkie as “discursive laboratory”: a tool kit, or set of filters through which to engage the contemporary production of gendered subjectivities. [continue reading]
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What exactly constitutes a generation? Do these uncertain, shaky times call for a negotiation and redefinition of this term? And, if it is still interesting to bring this term to the table, how do different generations relate and talk to each other? How are we to attune ourselves to other voices, viewpoints, different horizons of experience? Attunement (on generation) interrogates the meaning of generation today. The contributions of this issue reflect a general desire to create a common space – through writing, thinking and making art – in which to meet other generations (of thinkers, artists, friends, relatives), share knowledge, recover past experiences, and continue interrupted conversations.
As a remarkable publications, dedicated to bringing together the concerns, desires, and thoughts of different generations of feminists we have also invited the French feminist and entertainment magazine Pétunia, who in turn invited Alphabet Prime, to contribute to this issue.
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Conceived and developed in collaboration with Glänta Magazine and guest editor Claire Tancons, this issue of ...ment is a poetic journey into the life of Saints, tells about villagers of a remote province in Southern Italy and of the carnival in Rhineland; it is a journey into the self, and into artistic practices in which the carnivalesque and the masquerade are practiced as critical modalities of engaging reality. The contributions in this issue give voice to experiences, sensations, impressions, personal memories that directly or loosely relate to carnival as catalyst for social and political processes.
For this issue we only put contributions online commissioned by ...ment. You can access all articles of the magazine and find more information on Glänta Magazine here.
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Move...ment is an investigation of the relation between aesthetic and political praxis, from a consideration of what a voice can do, how words affect our perception of reality and images help to create new imaginaries beyond the current meaning of resistance. Conceived and developed in collaboration with Book Works for their annual commission series Common Objectives guest edited by Nina Power, this issue is dedicated to the many and different meanings of resistance today.
Contributions from: Jan Verwoert, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Bassam El Baroni, Rana Hamadeh, Claire Tancons, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, Federica Bueti, Abraham Cruzvillegas with a text by Clara Meister, Kathy Acker, Federico Campagna, Gabriela Jauregui, José M. Bueso and Sally Gutierrez, Christopher Kullenberg and Dick Higgins.
The contributions of this collaborative issue are not all online. To purchase your copy please visit Book Works website.
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This issue looks at forms of authorship—both individual and collective—as they emerge in a cultural context where the value of knowledge is created by the circulation and distribution of information. It attempts to understand how today authors from observers of facts and producers of imaginary worlds become conductors of new linguistic settings, ways of thinking of and acting on reality. We aim to reflect on authorship as a vessel and place of encounter.
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According to Aristotle a catastrophe is a reversal of the situation. How do we understand this concept today? Rather than generating prospects of pure decline, can the catastrophe be approached as a moment of openness, where the dissolution of the existing enables the formation of new collective structures? A dénouement, as the title suggests, is the epilogue of a story and its promise for the unexpected to unfold, an for a collective future others to be discovered, developed, and narrated. This issue proposes a space to think about catastrophe as a starting point and not as an end.
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Social Housing—Housing the Social was a two-day symposium hosted by SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain in 2012. The symposium emphased the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader political and philosophical idea of ‘housing the social’.
The reader was developed for the symposium in collaboration with ...ment. It was conceived as an integral part of the discussions developed during the meetings and as being parallel and independent research into the topic.
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This first issue reflects on the crisis of the welfare state and/or system, alongside the crisis of a post-capitalist society. Looking at notions of civic participation, populism and the increasingly capitalized infrastructures of education, space and creativity, this issue presents a spectrum of recent debates and propositions in these fields. While we want to investigate contemporary (and older) discourses on the limitation of governmental policies, we also aim at envisaging the possible responses in terms of cultural, educational and activist organizations.