A question also raised by curator Adnan Yıldız in his article “Falling into Berlin,” May 25, 2010.
These local histories are reflected—due to Anton Vidokle’s awareness—in the articles of Berlin-based artists and writers Sebastian Luetgert (“Down and Out in All the Wrong Places (Berlin 2010)”), Natascha Sadr Haghighian (“What’s the Time, Mahagonny?”), and Florian Zeyfang (“A Brief History of Poor Man’s Expression”).
For more information, see →.
William Walters, “Decentring the economy,” Economy and Society 28, no. 2 (May 1999): 316–317. The text is a review article of J. K. Gibson-Graham’s, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
See for example The Strategic Silence: Gender and Economic Policy, ed. Isabella Bakker (London: Zed Books, 1994); or Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics, ed. Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson (Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003); Reproduktionskonten fälschen! Heterosexualität, Arbeit und Zuhause, ed. Pauline Boudry, Brigitta Kuster, and Renate Lorenz (Berlin: b_books, 1999); idem, Sexuell arbeiten (Berlin: b_books, 2007).
See Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).
See Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000); Arjun Appadurai, “Deep Democracy: Urban Governmentality and the Horizon of Politics,” Public Culture 14, no. 1 (Winter 2002): 21–47.
J. K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996).
See Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000); idem, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004); Empire und die biopolitische Wende: Die internationale Diskussion im Anschluss an Hardt und Negri, ed. Marianne Pieper (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2007); Das Phantom sucht seinen Mörder: Ein Reader zur Kulturalisierung der Ökonomie, ed. Justin Hoffmann and Marion von Osten (Berlin: b_books, 1999).
See for example Michael Hardt in Artforum, December 2008,→; or the many examples in Isabell Lorey’s article of how post-operaist thought has been negotiated in the cultural field.
See Walter Benjamin, “The Author as Producer,” in Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings, ed. Peter Demetz, trans. Edmund Jephcott (New York: Schocken, 1986).
Massimo de Angelis, The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital (London: Pluto Press, 2007), 79. The chapter from which this quotation is taken is also available at →.
See An Architektur’s interview with Massimo De Angelis and Stavros Stavrides in this issue. The relation between scarcity and enclosure was also recently debated by Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, and Peter Spillmann in the roundtable “What shall we do…?” held in Berlin and Vienna in May 2001 on the shifts in extra-institutional knowledge production in the contemporary “educational turn.” It is interesting to see how complicated it is to articulate ways out of the context in which one is enclosed.
See Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural, trans. Robert D. Richardson and Anne E. O’Byrne (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000); Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, vol. 1 [1972.
See texts in this issue: Isabell Lorey, “Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting,” and Manuela Boyadžijev and Serhat Karakayal?, “Recuperating the Sideshows of Capitalism: The Autonomy of Migration Today.”
See Walter Mignolo “Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and De-Colonial Freedom,” Theory, Culture, and Society 26, nos. 7–8 (2009): 1–23.
See Antke Engel’s article in this issue, “Desire for Economic Transformation / Desire in Economic Transformation.”
J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Postcapitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), xix.
Ibid., 13.
Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
The Spanish artist Daniel Garcia Andujar, for example, has been engaged in the collection of postcapitalist links and projects in his ongoing archive, →.
Judith Hopf’s declaration of independence in this issue, “Contrat entre les hommes et l’ordinateur,” can be understood as such an act of détournement.
See Marion von Osten, “Producing Publics – Making Worlds!” in Curating Critique, ed. Marianne Eigenheer, Barnaby Drabble, and Dorothee Richter (Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2007).
See the articles in this issue “Hidden Labor and the Delight of Otherness. Design and Postcapitalist Politics” by the art historian Tom Holert, as well as “Design for a Post-Neoliberal City” by the artist and architect Jesko Fezer.