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"Shimmering Darkness" seeks to give a wide view into this sub-and counter-culture movement. Its developments and motives, as well as key ideas and contradictions are all examined in this extensive book. Some 600 illustrations (photos, artwork, album covers) impart a fascinating visual impression of the opulence with which the often elaborately ornamented and costumed scene presents itself. International artists, journalists, academics, DJs and promoters, as well as scene members themselves give their views over more than 400 pages.
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A bilingual volume celebrating 20 years of Wave-Gotik-Treffen! Anecdotes, memories, side notes and images from two decades of dark underground culture, gathered on approximately 200 pages. Visitors of the WGT, artists and Leipzig locals recount their impressions from the world?s largest festival of dark culture. Adding to this are numerous photographs and illustrations to make this tome a commemorative publication and documentation at once. Happy jubilee!
"'Nazi Camp'. Fascist Aesthetics in Cinema and Popular Culture"
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This volume analyzes the recent trend of popular culture, which de-historizises the fascist aesthetic as Nazi Chic and Nazi Trash and in this way draws a macabre as well as an enjoyable image of a destructive epoch. In doing so, it is significant to note how Nazi Chic already established itself in national-socialist self-expression as well as in allied propaganda during the second World War, to finally find its way into popular culture as a variation of the 'gothic villain', of the fascinating evil.
Nowadays, it is to be found in comics and films, in stage shows and media art. As the historic distance grows, it becomes harder to claim ethical responsibility in the handling of the actual evil. And many tendencies of Nazi Chic understand themselves as almost decoupled from the historic sources. Dr. Stiglegger?s book references and builds on the seminal works of historian Saul Friedländer, author Susan Sontag, philosopher Michel Foucault, while updating their pioneering research for the 21st century.
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"State of Emergence"
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In 1992 the Slovene artistic collective Neue Slowenische Kunst established what it called the NSK State in Time: a non-territorial artistic state which now has thousands of citizens around the world. In October 2010 a unique artistic, social and political experiment took place in Berlin's House of World Cultures (HKW). Thirty-two citizens of the NSK State in Time were invited to discuss the future of "The First Global State of the Universe." The project was an initiative of the NSK fine arts group IRWIN working in collaboration with cultural theorist Alexei Monroe, designer and creator of nskstate.com, Haris Hararis and Berlin's bka
The NSK State has been built from a wide range of divergent symbolism from across the cultural and political spectrum and its citizens come from divergent and even contradictory contexts and positions. No-one was sure what would or could happen when the citizens came together in order to try and identify common positions and potentials.
State of Emergence explores what did happen, what could have happened and what may happen following the Congress. The book will include a range of eye-witness accounts from delegates, facilitators, observers and others, giving multiple perspectives on the events. In addition, there are essays on the Congress and the NSK State from a range of theorists including Eda Cufer, Regina Roemhild, Yannis Stavrakakis and Kostis Stafylakis).
It will include images from the Congress as well as the accompanying NSK Folk Art and Congress Poster Competition exhibition and will also include documentation of the first post-Congress citizen-organised events.
As is the case with many of NSK's works, the true meanings and significances of the Congress may not be clear for some time but State of Emergence will analyse and contribute to the interpretation and decoding of an event whose implications touch on the key artistic, political and social dilemmas of our time.
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