The White West IV: Whose Universal?

Why did so many people of color vote for Trump in the last U.S. presidential election? The philosopher Norman Ajari offers one possible answer to that question in the new episode of the podcast Whose Universal? in conversation with Kader Attia. They discuss images of racist violence and Foucault’s concept of biopolitics.

Anthropocene Campus Venice

The effects of human-made climate change are particularly perceptible in the water city of Venice. From Oct 11-16, 2021, the Anthropocene Campus Venice examines the coexistence of humans and the environment in Venice and elsewhere. The call addresses scientists, artists and activists.

The New Alphabet

Alphabets, binary code, DNA – our present-day knowledge explosion is based on breaking down the world into its smallest units; making it predictable and manipulable. The new series explores linguistic and semiotic systems between regulatory cosmos and living chaos.

Werner Düttmann. Building. Berlin.

The architect and urban planner Werner Düttmann shaped the appearance of the city of Berlin. One of 28 satellites of the exhibition Werner Düttmann. Building. Berlin. spread across the city is now viewable in front of HKW’s outdoor stairway. Info panels show materials on the history of the Congress Hall and Werner Düttmann’s involvement in its construction.

Education Shock

Rethinking spaces for learning: The Education Shock exhibition and two publications take a look at the unparalleled utopias and global developments of the 1960s and 1970s and rediscover them as resources for current debates. Both publications are available, the exhibition will open as soon as possible.

Education in Concrete

From clinking concrete to interventions in the school system: in the run-up to the Education Shock exhibition, students research their local school buildings together with artists. Using artistic means, they speculate about possible learning environments and have drafted a manifesto for their redesign.

#Transmitting

“This sea is mine,” calls young Mohammad al-Khatib after his arduous journey across national borders and fences, through checkpoints and tunnels. The writer Adania Shibli tells of the difficulties of moving freely as a Palestinian. #Transmitting will take place in Rafah and Berlin on 3 and 4 Sep.

Animism

Animism is the belief that all things in nature are animated. The 2012 exhibition by Anselm Franke suggests the revision and decolonization of the traditional understanding of animism. It can now be seen as a digital exhibition on e-flux.

Statement by the “Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit”

As representatives of public cultural and research institutions in Germany, we share a mandate from the state to promote arts and culture, historical research and democratic education and to make these accessible to the general public. Toward this end, we rely on a public sphere that welcomes controversial debates in accordance with the norms of the German constitution. At the center of our initiative lies a common struggle against antisemitism, racism, right-wing extremism and any form of violent religious fundamentalism.

Education Shock

New Alphabet School

Schools of Tomorrow

The Whole Life: An Archive Project

Politics of Learning, Politics of Space: Architecture and the Education Shock of the 1960s and 1970s

Many of the current debates concerning learning and teaching environments, physical and virtual, echo those of the 1960s and 1970s, the “Education Shock” era. The English volume  is a collection of four texts by curator Tom Holert complementing the German publication.

Skin and Code

From violence in digital reality to intersectional pedagogy to algorithmic resistance, this volume examines the coding and decoding of bodily surfaces and interfaces.

Echo

How long is an echo? How have past ideas of life and form brought forth the technologies and lifestyles of our contemporary world? The volume experiments with a metaphorical, political and technopoetic concept of the echo.

Counter_Readings of the body

Human bodies appear as semiotic systems. Gazes construct and deconstruct them, determine identities, actions, power relations and communities. How can the body be removed from the firing line of these judging and derogatory glances?

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. The global network of initiatives is engaged with developing experimental and experiential approaches to co-learning and co-producing knowledge in a rapidly changing planetary situation.

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original

In the 1920s, Aby Warburg created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne which in the modern art and visual studies has taken on mythical status. The volume gathers the 63 plates – newly photographed from the original images, along with essays by Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman and Claudia Wedepohl.

New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

Wörterbuch der Gegenwart

What comes after universalism? The volume uses key words such as Thing, Justice and Body to ask about ways to redesign the world linguistically and visually. With new and historical contributions by, among others, Philippe Descola, Nikita Dhawan, Liz Johnson Artur, Achille Mbembe, Sarah Sharma and Wole Soyinka.