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Critique

The Stakes of Form

Edited by Sami Khatib, Holger Kuhn, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, and Beate Söntgen

Diaphanes, 2020

Critique is a form of thinking and acting. Since the end of the 18th century, there has been a dynamization and fluidization of the understanding of form, as concepts such as the break, marginalization, tearing, and opening indicate. As a philosophical problem, the question of form arises in critical theory from Marx to Adorno. Since the 1960s, literary practices have proliferated that generate critical statements less through traditional argument and more through the programmatic use of formal means. At the same time, the writing self, along with its attitudes, reflections, affects, and instruments, visibly enters the critical scene. This volume examines how the interdependence of critique, object, and form translates into critical stances, understood as learnable, reproducible gestures, which bear witness to changing conditions and media of critical practice.
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Scenes of the Avant-Garde

Networks, Temporalities and Transformational Power

Edited by Katharina Tchelidze, Julian Volz, and Beate Söntgen

Diaphanes, 2026

The history of the avant-garde, told in a series of non-linear tableaus.

This volume understands “avant-garde” as a constellation of moments, emphasizing its plural developments and its crucial interventionist role in culture and politics. Challenging the narrative of a linear avant-garde, the book sheds light on local scenes shaped by their distance from artistic practices and sociocultural conditions of their time. Scenes of the Avant-Garde brings together papers from a conference held in Tbilisi on the occasion of the centenary of the Futurist and Dadaist group H2SO4 (1924).

The contributions explore networks, relationships, and collaborations in artistic interventions. What transformational power lies in these practices? What are the gendered, social, and spatial structures, within which artistic groups test and create forms of community? And what can we learn from these overlooked or differently read stories?

The book offers new insights into avant-garde histories, drawing on case studies from countries such as Georgia, Algeria, India, Poland, Czechoslovakia, France, and the United Kingdom.

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