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A coffin to bury the statues of the ­ancestors
A coffin to bury the  statues of the ­ancestors

Clémentine Deliss

The Repatriation of the White Cube

I was initially slightly sceptical of the ramifications and undertones of Renzo Martens’ project in central Congo. But as I found out on a recent visit to Lusanga in DRC, it is precisely the complexity and radical ambiguity of the enterprise that provides it with both artistic as well as socio-economic and political relevance. The work operates across several registers, each with its own context and syntax, be it within farming or art. What really convinces me is the equity...
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60 Billiarden Moleküle

Thomas Huber

60 Billiarden Moleküle

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Aby Warburg und Georges Bataille
Aby Warburg und Georges Bataille

Michel Mettler (Hg.), Basil Rogger (Hg.), ...

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1929 ist ein reiches Jahr in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Spannungsfelder der Globalisierung in der Kultur zeigen sich darin wie in einem Prisma: 
Bronislaw Malinowski veröffentlicht seine Untersuchung über die Trobriand-
Indianer, Ernst Jünger »Das abenteuerliche Herz«, Kurt Kläber sein 
pazifistisches Manifest »Krieg«, Robert Byron »The Byzantine Achieve­ment«, Erika Mann zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Klaus »Rundherum. Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise«, Winston Churchill den vierten Band von »The World Crisis«. Kemal Atatürk gibt eine türkische Version des Korans in Auftrag, die Londoner...
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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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