Der Philosoph Gerald Raunig legt ein höchst ungewöhnliches Buch vor, welches eine Theorie und Praxis der Sprache dividueller Subjekte entwickelt.

Exploring narrative through an unfailingly complex prism of the self and bending it through a conceptualist framework, New Narrative produced stories likely to overshare and talk too much while addressing the meta-texts and sub-texts of a body-and self-obsessed writing, intertwining theory with gossip and the messiness of being a body and a mind. Two books published in 2017 set out, each in their own way, to map the relational topography such writing derived from: Chris Kraus' After Kathy Acker (2017) traces Acker's path to and within writing, the pirating it partly built upon, while returning the question of writing and entanglement to the biographer. The anthology Writers Who Love Too Much (2017) assembles texts from over 40 contributors (including Acker and Kraus) that continually re-formed New Narrative over a twenty-year period.

Last year, Chris Kraus’s 1997 novel I Love Dick was adapted for television by Jill Soloway, and was released as an Amazon Prime show in August. Unevenly updated for 2017, it shows traditional patriarchal power under attack by ‹identity politics›, displaced into the field of art, in a bizarrely conservative imagining of the left in contemporary America. 

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«Publics are queer creatures. You cannot point to them, count them, or look them in the eye.» So begins Michael Warner’s introduction to his book Publics and Counterpublics. This article looks closer at the emancipatory potential of publics. It does so on the occasion of the opening of ORAIBI + BECKBOOKS in Geneva.