The first person plural ‘We’ is an ectoplasmic form found in the majority of human languages. It is capable of embracing everything that lies between myself and the rest of the world.Through ‘we’, many subjects situate themselves, limit themselves, negotiate their similarities and differences, and engage in politics.Tristan Garcia
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Jean-Luc Nancy in Belgrade: Thinking with Nancy
Andromeda: Science Fiction Almanac
An old Yugoslav collection of science fiction works – in Serbo-Croatian – published by Galaksija (Galaxy) magazine as the Andromeda almanac in 1977. It included A report from the Cosmos by Ljubiša Jocić and an excerpt from 2018 A.D. or the King Kong Blues by Sam Lundwall which are below (in English). It’s worth preserving …
Aesthetic Dissent with Wandering Spirits and Wild Ghosts
The process of inventing a new visual language is also a revolution, a revolution of sensibility, in a sense as important as the armed seizure of power and thus the change of the world. Walter Benjamin, a German theorist from the world of the living, said that the Nazis had aestheticized politics, and in order …
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The Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
The Philosophy of Parochialism
By Radomir Konstantinovic; originally published as Filosofija Palanke Edited and with an Introduction by Branislav Jakovljevic, Translation by Ljiljana Nikolic and Branislav Jakovljevic and available for the first time in English in 2021 The Philosophy of Parochialism is Radomir Konstantinović’s (1928–2011) most celebrated and reviled book, first published in Belgrade as Filosofija palanke in 1969. …
In Memory of Jean-Luc Nancy (26 July 1940–23 August 2021)
UAE Venice Biennale Fabrication System
Architecture is in constant flux between the virtual and the real, as everything that was or is practical and real in architecture emanates from the virtual. A young team from the University of Tokyo participating in this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale (“How will we live together?”) introduced a new interactive virtual building process, which you …
Autopoetics of sound and signs: Toward poetry by other means
Autopoetics aims to create poetry which doesn’t rely on language and its known grammatical-syntactical structure. It is an attempt to overcome the limitations of currently known linguistic territories which are inadequate for artistic communication through simple and non-purely-verbal poetic forms (e.g. visual poetry, Signalism). Autopoetics doesn’t arise from the act of will and consciousness but …
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Bigger than Myself: Heroic Voices from ex-Yugoslavia
Unsung heroes, but human beings capable of influencing the course of political events and history: it is to them, to these civil heroes who often remain invisible and silent, to solidarity, and to the great ideals that today more than ever before are needed, that this exhibition is dedicated: “Bigger than Myself. Heroic Voices from …
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