Gerald Raunig

Gerald Raunig (1963, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee) is a philosopher and art theoretician. He works at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste and at the eipcp (European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies). He is a member of the editorial boards of the multilingual publishing platform transversal texts and the journal Kamion. He co-ordinated the transnational research projects republicart, transform and Creating Worlds, and was a member of the editorial board of the Austrian journal for radical democratic cultural politics, Kulturrisse. Lives in Vienna.

Works

• Charon. Eine Ästhetik der Grenzüberschreitung, Vienna: Passagen, 1999. (German)

• Wien Feber Null. Eine Ästhetik des Widerstands, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2000, 127 pp. [1] (German)

• editor, Kunst und Globalisierungskritik, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2003, 215 pp. [2] [3] (German)

• editor, Bildräume und Raumbilder. Repräsentationskritik in Film und Aktivismus, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2004, 188 pp. [4] [5] (German)

• editor, with Ulf Wuggenig, Publicum. Theorien der Öffentlichkeit, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2005, 127 pp. [6] [7] (German)

• editor, with Brian Holmes, Brumaria 5: "Arte : la imaginación política radical", Madrid: Asociación Cultural Brumaria, 2005, 379 pp. TOC. Introduction. (Spanish)

• editor, with Bernhard Hummer, Therese Kaufmann and Raimund Minichbauer, Republicart Practices: Documentation Evaluation, Vienna/Linz: EIPCP, 2005.

• Kunst und Revolution. Künstlerischer Aktivismus im langen 20. Jahrhundert, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2005, 261 pp; new ed., Vienna: transversal texts, 2017, 405 pp. Publisher. [8] [9] (German)
  • Umetnost i revolucija. Umetnički aktivizam tokom dugog XX veka, trans. Relja Dražić, Novi Sad: kuda.org, 2006, 220 pp. (Serbian)
  • Art and Revolution. Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, trans. Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007, 319 pp.
  • Umetnost in revolucija. Umetniški aktivizem v dolgem 20. stoletju, trans. Mojca Dobnikar, Ljubljana: Maska, 2011, 232 pp. Publisher. (Slovenian)
  • Iskusstvo i revoluciia: khudozhestvennyi aktivizm v dolgom dvadcatom veke [Искусство и революция. Художественный активизм в долгом двадцатом веке], trans. Eugenia Shraga and Alexander Skidan, EUSP Press, 2011. (Russian)

• editor, with Ulf Wuggenig, Kritik der Kreativität, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2007, 251 pp; new ed., Vienna: transversal texts, 2016, 530 pp. [10] [11] [12] (German)
  • editor, with Gene Ray and Ulf Wuggenig, Critique of Creativity: Precarity, Subjectivity and Resistance in the ‘Creative Industries’, London: mayfly, 2011, 234 pp.

• Tausend Maschinen. Eine kleine Philosophie der Maschine als sozialer Bewegung, afterw. Maurizio Lazzarato, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2008, 125 pp. [13] (German)
  • Mil máquinas. breve filosofía de las máquinas como movimiento social, trans. Marcelo Expósito, Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2008, 126 pp. (Spanish)
  • A Thousand Machines, trans. Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2009, 128 pp. (English)

• with Stefan Nowotny, Instituierende Praxen. Bruchlinien der Institutionskritik, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2008, 220 pp, [14] [15]; new ed., rev., Vienna: EIPCP, 2016, 311 pp. (German) English version of the introduction to the revised edition.

• editor, with Gene Ray, Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique, London: mayflybooks, and Vienna: EIPCP, 2009, 266 pp.

• editor, with Isabell Lorey and Roberto Nigro, Inventionen 1. Gemeinsam. Prekär. Potentia. Kon-/Disjunktion. Ereignis. Transversalität. Queere Assemblagen, Zürich: diaphanes, 2011, 280 pp. [16] (German)

• Fabriken des Wissens. Streifen und Glätten 1, Zürich: diaphanes, 2012, 96 pp. Publisher. [17] (German)
  • Fabbriche del sapere, industrie della creatività, Verona: Ombre corte, 2012. Publisher. (Italian)
  • Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity, trans. Aileen Derieg, afterw. Antonio Negri, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2013, 168 pp. [18] (English)

• Industrien der Kreativität. Streifen und Glätten 2, Zürich: diaphanes, 2012, 96 pp. Publisher. [19] (German)

• editor, with Isabell Lorey and Roberto Nigro, Inventionen 2. Exodus. Reale Demokratie. Immanenz. Territorium. Maßlose Differenz. Biopolitik, Zürich: diaphanes, 2012, 224 pp. [20] (German)

• Dividuum. Maschinischer Kapitalismus und molekulare Revolution, Band 1, Vienna: transversal texts, 2015, 256 pp. (German)
  • Dividuum. Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution, Vol. 1, trans. Aileen Derieg, New York/Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2016, 208 pp, ARG. [21] [22] (English)
  • Dividuum. Makinesel kapitalizm ve moleküler devrim, Eskişehir: YORT, 2019. [23] (Turkish)

• editor, with Christoph Brunner, Raimund Minichbauer, and Kelly Mulvaney, Technökologien, Vienna: transversal texts, 2018, 157 pp. (German)

• Maschinen Fabriken Industrien. Tausend Maschinen. Fabriken des Wissens. Industrien der Kreativität, Vienna: transversal texts, 2019, 325 pp, PDF. (German)

• Ungefüge. Maschinischer Kapitalismus und molekulare Revolution, Band 2, Vienna: transversal texts, 2021, 340 pp. (German)
  • Dissemblage: Machinic Captialism and Molecular Revolution, Colchester: Minor Compositions, 2022, 256 pp. Publisher. (English)
  • Desamblaje: capitalismo maquínico y revolución molecular. Vol. 2, trans. Kike España, Málaga: Subtextos, 2023, 314 pp. (Spanish)

• Making Multiplicity, Polity (Theory Redux), 2024, 144 pp. Article. Publisher. (English)

Links

• Profile on EIPCP
• Profile on ZHDK, [24]
• Wikipedia-DE