Tiqqun: Grundbausteine einer Theorie des Jungen-Mädchens (1999/2009) [German]

“Das Junge-Mädchen (la Jeune-Fille) ist die Gestalt, die Ewig-Weibliches und ewige Jugend in sich vereint. Seinen Ursprung hat es im Bankrott des von der totalen Kommerzialisierung überrannten Feminismus. Einzig fähig zu konsumieren (sowohl in der Freizeit wie bei der Arbeit), ist das Junge-Mädchen zugleich das luxuriöseste Konsumgut, das gegenwärtig in Umlauf ist: die Leit-Ware, die dazu dient, alle anderen zu verkaufen. Mit dem Junge-Mädchen wird Wirklichkeit, was sich nur die überdrehtesten Krämerseelen erträumten: die autonome Ware, die spricht und geht, die lebende Sache.

Doch woran erkennt man es? Zunächst daran, dass es ist, was es zu sein scheint, sonst nichts. Zum zweiten hat alles, was das Junge-Mädchen tut, etwas Professionelles an sich, da es seine gesamte Existenz als eine Frage des Managements betrachtet. Als Eigentümerin ihres Körpers, verkauft das Junge-Mädchen (»Sternchen«, Model, Reklame, Bild) seine »Verführungskraft« wie man einst seine »Arbeitskraft« verkaufte. Selbst seine Liebschaften sind Arbeit, und wie jede Arbeit prekär… Schließlich altert das Junge-Mädchen nicht, es verwest.”

„Julien Coupat und seine Freunde können nicht die Autoren der in TIQQUN veröffentlichten Texte sein, weil diese in einer Zone angesiedelt sind, in der es unmöglich ist, zwischen Subjekt und Dispositiv zu unterscheiden, d.h. in der der Begriff des Autors jegliche Bedeutung verloren hat.“

Der Text ist in seiner ersten Version in der Nummer 1 von Tiqqun im Januar 1999 erschienen. Die vorliegende Übersetzung folgt der überarbeiteten Fassung in: TIQQUN, Premiers matériaux pour une théorie de la Jeune-Fille, Rennes 2006.
Übersetzt von Deutsche Sektion der PI (Parti Imaginaire)
Merve Verlag, 2009
IMD 334
ISBN 3883962716, 9783883962719
120 Seiten

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Culture Machine, 13: Paying Attention (2012)

“This issue of Culture Machine sets itself two interrelated tasks in response to the scope and implications of these interrelated positions concerning attention, consciousness, culture, economics and politics. Firstly, it interrogates the notion of attention as it is elaborated in approaches to the attention economy and to media as forms of attention capture. The essays by three leading contributors to thinking in and around these themes, Bernard Stiegler, Tiziana Terranova, and Jonathan Beller, have such an interrogation as their principal task. They develop different, overlapping and sometimes contrasting perspectives on how a critical reposing of the question of attention might reframe its purchase on the central themes of the relation between interiority and exteriority, minds and media, economics and culture. The interview with Michel Bauwens, and the essays by Ben Roberts and Sy Taffel, are also working toward this end in that they identify various limitations and exclusions of the predominant articulation of the attention economy and move toward alternative, more productive, ethical or socially just formulations.

The second task of this issue is pursued in the essays of Tania Bucher, Martin Thayne, Rolien Hoyng and the three contributions to the additional section of the issue. These three – from Ruth Catlow, Constance Fleuriot and Bjarke Liboriussen – represent less scholarly but no less acute strategic inquiries into the thinking and re-making of what Stiegler calls attentional technics. Together, these contributions address particular instantiations of media forms, design practices and phenomena – from Facebook and Second Life to pervasive media design and Istanbul’s digitally mediated City of European Culture project – as a way of exploring and critically inflecting the implementation of the attention economy. This second mode moves from material phenomena to theoretical analysis and critique, while the first goes the other way. As we have argued, however, the necessity of the traffic between them is a central tenet of how we endeavour to pay attention to contemporary digital technoculture in this issue.” (from the introduction)

Edited by Patrick Crogan and Samuel Kinsley
Publisher Open Humanities Press
Open Access
ISSN 1465-4121

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David Harvey: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (2012–) [EN, ES]

“Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people?

Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.”

Publisher Verso Books, London, 2012
ISBN 1844679047, 9781844679041
216 pages

Reviews: Owen Hatherley (The Guardian, 2012), Ruth Lorimer (Socialist Review, 2012), Lewis Beardmore (Open Democracy, 2012), Justin McGuirk (Art Review, 2012), more.

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Rebel Cities (English, updated on 2020-11-28)
Ciudades rebeldes (Spanish, trans. Juanmari Madariaga, 2013, added on 2020-11-28)