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    Thomas Hirschhorn: The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival. The Ambassador's Diary

    Series Book 21 - Hatje Cantz Text
    The Bijlmer Spinoza-Festival is an artwork, a sculpture, created by Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn in a peripheral borough of Amsterdam's south-east known as the Bijlmer in 2009. This book recounts the event through the eyes of its "Ambassador", art historian Vittoria Martini, who was invited by the artist to be an eyewitness to the existence of this "precarious" work. A term Hirschhorn sees as ... Read more

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  • The Terror of Evidence

    Series Book 4 - Untimely Meditations
    Meditations, maxims, aphorisms, notes, and comments address topics that range from pathos and genius to careerism and club sandwiches.Marcus Steinweg's capacity to implicate the other is beautiful, bright, precise, and logical, grounded in everyday questions, which to him are always big questions.—from the foreword by Thomas HirschhornThe houses of philosophy need not be palaces.—Marcus Steinweg, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Inconsistencies

    Translated by Amanda DeMarco ...
    Series Book 7 - Untimely Meditations
    Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our reality.Those who continue to think never return to their point of departure.—InconsistenciesThese 130 short texts—aphoristic, interlacing, and sometimes perplexing—target a perennial philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of reality are inconsistent, ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

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    Translated by John Irons ...
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  • When Clothes Become Fashion

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    When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also a business relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from ... Read more

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  • Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself

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    Series Book 8 - Untimely Meditations
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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

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