love & politics

Immersed both in artistic exploration as well as in philosophical and scientific research, the project welcomed contributions from all disciplines so as to get the most diverse view on the topic. Taking as its point of departure the question of how love and politics could coexist and what kind of forms and spaces could be created out of this encounter, the project addresses the potential of this unlikely liaison. The book is full of clouds and vertical flows, children's voices, magic protests and polemics, cyborgs, floating cities, rhizomatic braids and dancing soldiers, anarchist diggers, feminist mystics, hybrid fish and mermaids, satellites and astronauts ... It works like a synaesthetic jukebox of yet unknown possibilities. You may read it like a picture book or like an academic journal. You may start at any contribution and synaesthetically relate it to any other: the possible amount of fusions goes far beyond our possible intentions. A collective book project with contributions by Johan Grimonprez, Michael Hardt, Alexander García Düttmann, Mikhail Karikis, Cecylia Malik, Uriel Orlow, Simon Critchley, Robin Wang, Soumyabrata Choudhury, Andrea Messner, Medha Singh, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou, Miriam Poletti, Tom Bland, Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius, Anna Deligianni, Nauman Abid, Ioana Niculescu-Aron, Denise Padron Benitez, Cheryl Rudd, Amit Shankar Saha, Nicoletta Poungias

Introduction: Nephelokokkygia by Evgenia Giannopoulou and Hannes Schumacher (eds.) Michael Hardt on the Politics of Love Interview by Johan Grimonprez Walk the line by Cheryl Rudd Love is the Institution of Revolution by Mikhail Karikis On Love: A conversation between Michael Hardt and Mikhail Karikis Lonely Girl Phenomenology by Miriam Poletti Making Friends with a Rose by Medha Singh One Percent by Anna Deligianni walking on tiptoes by Nicoletta Poungias Floating City by Anna Deligianni Forgetting the Rains by Amit Shankar Saha February 2017. Art is Life by Ioana Niculescu-Aron Welcome home-intruders by Denise Padron Benitez 365 Trees / Bia?ka’s Braids / Polish Mothers by Cecylia Malik All is fair in love and war. Simon Critchley in dialogue with Johan Grimonprez Hate as a transformative force – An Essay on Walter Benjamin by Andrea Messner Polemiken oder wenn sich die demokratischen Tiere um die Gegenwartskunst scharen by Alexander Garcia Duttmann Love of Nature, Politics of Diversity: Open to wonders, hiddenness and sublime by Robin Wang ?I love you?: A musical utterance or a flat one? by Soumyabrata Choudhury For a better future together / Visions are scary by Nauman Abid Lessepsian Lovers by Uriel Orlow ????????? ???????? – Oceanic Planet by Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Memory Virus by Tom Bland You got wires, comin’ out of your skin by Anna Deligianni Mars Trojan – Elon – The Shroud (5517) A by Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius