On Withdrawal-Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices

What forms does withdrawal-meaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawn-take in artistic and cultural practices? What movement(s) does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors of this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes. These scenes are organized under three parts that structure the chapters: Passivity, Failure, and Refusal; Disappearance and Remembrance; Resilience and Resistance. Through interviews, artistic and literary texts, visual contributions, and academic texts, the authors explore various modalities of withdrawal ranging from a silencing of critical voices to a political and aesthetic strategy of refusal. The enforced disappearance of government opponents, for instance, may be implemented as a means of state violence, but withdrawing may also mean the decision not to participate in such violence, ei ther through forms of passivity or refusal. Moreover, in the neoliberal logic of resilience, the relationship between subjective agency and imposition from the outside remains tense. The aim of this book is to tackle these tensions, as well as the ambiguities and complexities of withdrawal.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

0 (Lauren Berlant)7 - 28 On Withdrawal-Introduction (Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Rebecca Hanna John, Ulrike Jordan, Thorsten Schneider, Judith Sieber, Nele Wulff)31 - 46 Self-Loss as a Form of Knowledge (Kathrin Busch)47 - 70 They Call It Idlewild Extended II (Helen Cammock)71 - 92 "Germany Must Detox, Germany Has To Go on Withdrawal" (Mutlu Ergün-Hamaz, Rebecca Hanna John)93 - 114 War in the Head: Meditating with Bataille (Knut Ebeling)115 - 136 "Very little resistance from the Orient's part"? On Moments of Failure in Hermann Goetz's and Robert Lachmann's Orientalist Journeys (Arnika Ahldag, Rebecca Hanna John)137 - 156 "It takes a lot longer to build a city than it does to strike a target." Reversing Partition as an Art Practice (Rebecca Hanna John, Akram Zaatari)159 - 176 In the Aftermath of Violence. On Being Present and Calling Into Presence (Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Ulrike Jordan, Diana Taylor)177 - 194 Feeling Presences: Regina José Galindo's Acts of Becoming Someone Els e, Something Else (Marivi Véliz)195 - 208 Purple Panic: 43 (Pinar Ögrenci)209 - 236 A Psychiatric Clinic, a Monastery, a City and a River. On the (Artistic) Legibility of Disappearance in Topography (Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Ulrike Jordan)237 - 256 On Behalf of Grief and Anger. Against an Economy of Remembrance (Deniz Utlu)261 - 278 The Discreet Charm of Catastrophe. Vulnerability, Resilience, and Critique in the Era of Multiple Crises (Stefanie Graefe)279 - 296 Artists in Resilience, or: How to Organize Yourself? (Thorsten Schneider)297 - 316 The Desire of the Exhausted. Notes on Resilience, Resistance and Adraneia (Sofia Bempeza)317 - 338 "Let us be a gear in the machinery and at the same time the obstacle of its operation." Some Thoughts on House of Tupamaras' Manifesto El fracaso es mi estilo (Nele Wulff)339 - 358 Refusal of Form: The Critical Potential of W.E.B. Du Bois's Charts for the Paris World's Fair, 1900 (Judith Sieber)359 - 376 Unlearning the Common (Lauren Berlant)3 77 - 378 List of Illustrations379 - 384 Contributors