Texte Zur Kunst No. 98 / June 2015 “Media”

Issue No. 98 / June 2015 “Media”
Table of contents

6 Preface
36 Alina Astrova Unbearable Lightness: Thumbelina goes to the club
46 Do Media Determine our Situation? / Reflections on the transatlantic reception of Friedrich Kittler by Isabelle Graw, Reinhold Martin, and André Rottmann
80 Ute Holl Media Theory (or, and, despite) a Theory of Cultural Techniques
88 Michael Sanchez Notes on Klaus Theweleit's "Book of Kings"
92 Klaus Theweleit Book of Kings, Recording angels’ mysteries / Excerpts from "Sex Machines" and "Group and Law"
104 Karin Harrasser Koine Aisthesis / Probing the Deep Tissue of Tactile Media
118 Harry Burke Page Break
124 Kerstin Stakemeier Exchangeables / Aesthetics against Art
144 Jutta Koether Fortune
150 Proxy / Peter Sotos in conversation
164 Hannah Black Social Life
Bildstrecke
176 Mathieu Malouf Untitled (apology to David Joselit)
Rotation
181 Gegen Kritik? / Martin Saar über "Überschrift. Ethik des Wissens – Poetik der Existenz" von Armen Avanessian
186 General Sex / Daniel Loick über "Testo Junkie" von Paul B. Preciado
Liebe Arbeit Kino
192 Soziogramm mit Killerwal / Philipp Goll über Jan Peter Hammer bei Supportico Lopez, Berlin
197 Come as You Are / Andrew Hultkrans on Brett Morgen's "Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck"
KLANG KÖRPER
201 Human Behaviour / Tess Edmonson on Björk at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
208 Lacanistische Litaneien / Aram Lintzel über "Von einem der auszog..." von Dirk von Lowtzow und René Pollesch in der Volksbühne, Berlin
Short Waves
213 Manfred Hermes über Walther Dahn bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin / Eva Wilson on John Baldessari at Marian Goodman Gallery, London / Avigail Moss on Juliette Blightman at Karma International LA, Los Angeles / Manuela Ammer über Carola Dertnig bei Andreas Huber, Wien / Andrew Durbin on Karl Holmqvist at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York / Fiona McGovern über Channa Horwitz im KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin / Gunter Reski über den späten Rembrandt im Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Reviews
237 Haunted Realism / Anastasiya Osipova on "Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art" at the James Gallery and e-flux gallery, New York
242 It's So Chanel! / Barbara Vinken über Chanels Défilés im Grand Palais, Paris
246 Lieske Leaks / Pablo Larios on David Lieske at Mumok, Vienna
252 Perform the Work / Josefine Wikström on Mierle Laderman Ukeles at Marabouparken Konsthall, Sundbyberg, and Konsthall C, Farsta, Sweden
257 Kunst als Einstülpung / Julia Gelshorn über Rosemarie Trockel im Kunsthaus Bregenz
262 Breaking the Waves / Alex Kitnick on Hito Steyerl at Artists Space, New York
267 A Science Fiction Of Close Range / Ellen Feiss on Melanie Gilligan at CASCO, Utrecht; De Hallen Haarlem; and De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam