Alwin Franke studies Comparative Literature, History and Philosophy at Freie University in Berlin. He was invited by New York Magazine of Contemporary Art and Theory as the first external guest editor.
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The Stage of Philosophy. A conversation between Michel Foucault and Moriaki Watanabe
Michel Foucault was a French historian of systems of thought. He described his theoretical project as the attempt to write a Critical History of Thought. Amongst his most important publications rank History of Madness, The Birth of the Clinic, The Order of Things, Discipline and Punish and History of Sexuality. Michel Foucault died in 1984.
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The Scene of (Media-) Technological Superiority, by Erhard Schüttpelz
Erhard Schüttpelz is Professor of Media Theory at the University of Siegen. His latest publications include Die Moderne im Spiegel des Primitiven. Weltliteratur und Ethnologie 1870-1960, Paderborn 2005, Bruno Latours Kollektive (ed. with Georg Kneer and Marcus Schroer), Frankfurt/Main 2008, Trancemedien und Neue Medien um 1900 (ed. with Marcus Hahn), Bielefeld 2009. Next publication: Akteur-Medien-Theorie (ed. with Tristan Thielmann), Bielefeld 2011.
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Mimesis and Suspicion. Towards a Poetology of Knowledge; by Joseph Vogl
The Black Swan; by Joseph Vogl
The shamefacedness of functional elements; A conversation with Joseph Vogl
Joseph Vogl is Professor of German Literature, Cultural and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin and permanent visiting professor at Princeton University. His latest books include Kalkül und Leidenschaft. Poetik des ökonomischen Menschen, München 2002, Über das Zaudern, Berlin 2007, Politische Zoologie (ed. with Anne von der Heiden), Berlin 2007, Das Gespenst des Kapitals, Berlin 2010.
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Rete Mirabile. The Circulation of Voices in Philip Scheffner's Halfmoon Files; by Friedrich Balke
Friedrich Balke is Professor for History and Theory of Artificial Worlds at the Media Faculty, Bauhaus-University Weimar and spokesperson of the graduate school “Media of History, History of History”.
His areas of teaching and research focus on the cultural history of political sovereignty and legal theory, governmentality and modern biopolitics, interrelations of media and forms of knowledge, aesthetic theory and French philosophy. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, New York and at the University of Konstanz. His books and essays include Der Staat nach seinem Ende. Die Versuchung Carl Schmitts, Munich 1996; Gilles Deleuze (Frankfurt/New York 1997), Ästhetische Regime um 1800 (co-edited with Harun Maye & Leander Scholz), Munich 2008, and Figuren der Souveränität, Munich 2009; “From a Biopolitical Point of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Crime”, in: Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde (Hg.): Nietzsche and Legal Theory. Half-Written Laws, New York, London: Routledge 2005, S. 49-65; “Governmentalization of the State: Rousseau’s Contribution to the Modern History of Governmentality”, in: Ulrich Bröckling/Susanne Krasmann/Thomas Lemke (Hg.): Governmentality. Current Issues and Future Challenges, New York: Routledge 2011, S. 74-92.
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Federica Bueti is an independent curator and writer interested in performance art practice, time based or ephemeral and temporary activities. Bueti founded the online magazine PIANOmagazine.org, and less/express, commissioned by the American Academy in Rome and exhibited at The Building, the e-flux space in Berlin, Germany. She is co-editor of MENT, a quarterly online journal for contemporary culture, art and politics (www.journalment.org). Bueti contributed to Flash Art, Exibart, Artandeducation-paper, Arte e Critica, Artslant, and Fantom Magazine. The essay "Nothing to see in the mirror-On the perpetual movement of sound", has been included in a recent publication about sound and public sphere edited by Errant Bodies and Atelier Nord. She worked as exhibition assistant at the Alighiero e Boetti Foundation in Rome, Italy. Since 2008 she regularly collaborates with the Radio Arte Mobile-Rome, a non-profit organization active in the promotion and experimentation on sound.
Bueti completed her BA in Media Theory and Communication Studies at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, IULM, Milan. In 2007 the MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Brera Academy, Milan, and in 2009 the first Gwangju Biennale Curatorial Course, an annual curatorial course organized by Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea. Federica Bueti is member of IKT, International Association of curators of contemporary art.
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Photo credit: Ryan McGeeney, 2010
Philip Heying is a photographer living in Lawrence, Kansas. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he acquired a passion for photography at a young age, and learned the craft of black & white film and print development while in middle school. Heying graduated with a BFA in Painting in 1983 from the University of Kansas.
While studying art at KU, Heying received the Sterling Scholarship, an Undergraduate Research Award, and sold a number of paintings. During his time in Lawrence, Kansas, Heying met William S. Burroughs and began a friendship that endured until Burroughs’s death in 1997. Burroughs’s circle of friends, from Albert Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg, to Brion Gysin and Timothy Leary provided artistic insight and guidance for Heying, and during this time his focus shifted from painting to photography exclusively.
Soon after college, curiosity to experience another culture led Heying to France, via coal freighter. Paris not only offered him the possibility of learning a new language, but also a new way of looking at the world and building on his photographic sensibilities.
