26 research outputs found
âSubmit Your Referencesâ:Introduction
The principles of ERRANS are introduced by considering two radically different contexts: Within academic publishing, the literary form of the edited collection is as common as it is denigrated and rarely reflected upon. The account being offered (within an edited collection) seeks to not only reinterpret the status of the genre, but argues in favor of a curatorial errancy within scholarly communication. Yet errancy has also become a crucial touchstone in management and leadership studies, whether as âdisruptive innovationâ or âVUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) worldsâ, inviting a different consideration of the relationship between capitalism and its political and artistic critiques than the one offered by Luc Boltanski and Ăve Chiapello â one which does not consider itself untouched by the errant logics it discerns in its âsubjectsâ.Arnd Wedemeyer, ââSubmit Your Referencesâ: Introductionâ, in Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 24 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 1-18 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-24_0
Pumping Honey:Joseph Beuys at the documenta 6
For the duration of the one hundred days of the documenta 6 in 1977, Joseph Beuys made honey flow from this slightly awkward pit, the well of a destructive esprit dâescalier, this site of a sovereignty evacuated many times over. Beuys, that is, installed his fable of the bees at a purposefully vacuous palace where courtly culture had surrendered to the modern museum, but more specifically even, at the supplemental, feigned, then bombed-out site of popular sovereignty
Preface
Arnd Wedemeyer and Christoph F. E. Holzhey, âPrefaceâ, in Re-: An Errant Glossary, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 15 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2019), p. vii-xv <https://doi.org/10.25620/ci-15_01
Errans:Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing
Todayâs critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring â as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics. Yet often the laudible failures are only those that are redeemed by subsequent successes. What could it mean to think errancy beyond such restrictions? And what would a radical critique of productivity, success, and fixed determination look like that doesnât collapse into the infamous âI would prefer not toâ? This volume looks for an answer in the complicated word field branching and stretching from the Latin errÄre. Its contributions explore the implications of embracing error, randomness, failure, non-teleological temporalities across different disciplines, discourses, and practices, with critical attention to the ambivalences such an impossible embrace generates.âSubmit Your Referencesâ: Introduction | ARND WEDEMEYER | 1â18The Punakawans Make an Untimely Appearance: In Praise of Caves, Shadows, and Fire (or A Response to Platoâs Doctrine of Truth) | PRECIOSA DE JOYA | 19â47The Animal That Laughs at Itself: False False Alarms about the End of âManâ | JAMES BURTON | 49â74Not Yet: Duration as Detour in Emmanuelle Demorisâs Mafrouza Cycle | ROSA BAROTSI | 75â92Incomplete and Self-Dismantling Structures: The Built Space, the Text, the Body | ANTONIO CASTORE | 93â112Camera Fog; or, The Pendulum of Austerity in Contemporary Portugal | MARIA JOSĂ DE ABREU | 113â40Rinko Kawauchi: Imperfect Photographs | CLARA MASNATTA | 141â58Inbuilt Errans: What Is and Is Not âRadical Indifferenceâ | ZAIRONG XIANG | 159â75Errant Counterpublics: âSolidarnoĆÄâ and the Politics of the Weak | EWA MAJEWSKA | 177â99âThe Exile from the Lawâ: Keeping and Transgressing the Limits in Jewish Law | FEDERICO DAL BO | 201â31Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 24 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022) <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-24
Weathering:Ecologies of Exposure
Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process
Re-:An Errant Glossary
Whatâs in a prefix? How to read a prefix as short as âre-â? Does âre-â really signify? Can it point into a specific direction? Can it reverse? Can it become the shibboleth of a âpostcriticalâ reboot? At first glance transparent and directional, âre-â complicates the linear and teleological models commonly accepted as structuring the relations between past, present, and future, opening onto errant temporalities
Danteâs Modernity:An Introduction to the Monarchia
One of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century reads Danteâs Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory. Judith Revelâs accompanying essay submits Lefortâs encounter with Dante to a transformative mis/reading and ties it to current debates on the question of the common
Contribution
Arnd Wedemeyer, Contribution to the book presentation Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ICI Berlin, 30 September 2020, video recording, mp4, 11:54 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e200930_2