Soft and weak like water

The 14th Gwangju Biennale 7 April – 9 July 2023 The 14th Gwangju Biennale proposes to imagine our shared planet as a site of resistance, coexistence, solidarity and care by thinking through the transformative and restorative potential of water as a metaphor, a force, and a method. Soft and weak like water celebrates an aqueous …

Review of A new dawn for politics by Alain Badiou; by Gorica Orsholits

A new dawn for politics is a collection of Alain Badiou’s writings from 2016 and 2020 which comprise essays and lectures on the ideological and political situation worldwide and in France. https://www.tankebanen.no/inscriptions/index.php/inscriptions/issue/view/10

Internationale Situationniste journal

Online archive of English translations of Internationale Situationniste, aka International Situationist: the journal of the Situationist International. Détournement as Negation and Prelude Détournement, the reuse of preexisting artistic elements in a new ensemble, has been a constantly present tendency of the contemporary avant-garde, both before and since the formation of the SI. The two fundamental …

The Loss of Object and Practice of Philosophy as Art: Interview with Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han in his latest book  – Undinge (Nonobjects) claims that the age of object is over. “Today we are in the transition from the age of objects to the age of nonobjects. Information, not objects, now defines our environment. Under no circumstances do I want to praise old, beautiful objects. That would be very unphilosophical. …

Multiple Arts: Making Poetry

Poetry is the indeterminate unity of a set of qualities that are not restricted to the kind of writing called “poetry”. The history of poetry is the history of poetry’s persistent refusal to allow itself to be identified with any given poetic mode or genre – not in order to invent one that would be …

Philippe Beck’s art of poetry: the poems of Opéradiques

Contemporary French poet Philippe Beck through his intriguing poetic project Opéradiques (2014; which has yet to be translated into English) demonstrates a new understanding of writing poetry through the deconstructive, reconstructive, boustrophedon process. Beck finds the foundation of his art of poetry in the “ruins” of existing written poems, stories, texts of all genres and …

Alain Badiou: The Immanence of Truths

Being and Event III The Being and Event trilogy is the philosophical basis of Alain Badiou’s entire oeuvre. It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: Being and Event (1988), Logics of the Worlds (2006) and finally The Immanence of Truths (published 19 May 2022), which he has been …

Surrealism — Nadrealizam

Yugoslavia — Serbia The collective activity of the Belgrade Surrealists began in the inspiring atmosphere brought on by two Surrealist manifestos by André Breton. The first joint edition the almanac Nemoguće-L′impossible was published in 1930 in Belgrade, with the manifesto signed by thirteen founding members of the movement.The members of the Belgrade Surrealist movement published …

The Problem of Space Travel

Did we successfully solve the problem of space travel or have we just caused new ones? Herman Potočnik Noordung was born on December 22, 1892, in the city of Pola, which was in those days a part of Austria-Hungary (nowadays Pula, Republic of Croatia). In 1929 his book The Problem of Space Travel: The Rocket …