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Topic: Deficiency
Pages: 85
The dying print market is making one last stand: With breathtaking activism, more and more magazines are being published. They are supposed to take over where the viral offensive of digital media loses reach in the name of print media. They are not only meant to disseminate information—something the internet does better, faster, and, probably as a consequence, also more cheaply. They are supposed to also organize the processing of information, to offer reflection, contemplation, and interpretation: this is what is now called "Slow Journalism." This demand and hope are ideologically supported and summarized by the anti-modern term "deceleration." The countless magazines today are manifest evidence that the Gutenberg project can only be preserved through a new form of machine-breaking against the internet and its rapid pace.
Whoever publishes a magazine today finds themselves in bad company. It does not get any better if it is explicitly a student magazine. “Student” does not mean young, fresh, dynamic, or innovative. A "student" is a credit-point-gathering junior member of the labor market. “Student” stands for the absence of secure competencies, experiences, and capital. Anyone who wants to publish a student magazine today acknowledges the arbitrariness and insignificance of an environment that enjoys a certain freedom of action, which, due to a lack of time (see Krüger), can rarely be creatively realized.
The student production of texts and ideas, which has the potential to go beyond the reproduction of texts and ideas tied to education, suffers from being either entirely theory-free or, worse, operating with a certain overlap between authors and readers. This results in analytical terms being replaced by polemical terms, and the bridge to debate is torn down: instead of focusing on the object of interest, it becomes about self-satisfied comfort within one's own nest. This is not to say that internal discussions within existing frameworks are inherently illegitimate, but they often fall short.
The “outreaching” must find a connection if it is to be fruitful.
Publishing a magazine today is neither economically nor politically justifiable. Phrases like "The medium is the message" sound exhausted amidst the roaring noise of the information society. In a panicked fear of boredom (see Endemann), we browse the café (see Deutschmann) for tomorrow’s weather (see Burschyk). We are captivated by our fortune-telling iPhone (see Groll), bought with money we don't really have (see Grumprecht). What was once called "world" and now only manifests as war (see van den Berg) and crisis (see Faissner) barely makes it into the gray boxes (see Zöller) where we deliberately prepare ourselves to become the next generation of professionless "specialist idiots" (see Weise). Is there still something left to say? (see Boesken) We hope to create the possibility of open, prosthetic thinking. With this in mind, we are pleased to present to you the first issue on the topic of Deficiency.
We would like to thank Dr. Martin Stempfhuber for his guest contribution, A Neat Disorder of MacGuffins, which we would like to draw attention to here.
Content:
Tim Burschyk / On the Predictability of the Future
Art W. Krüger / Image of Death and Lifespan
Mirjam Groll / Illuminating and Dark at the Same Time
Fabian Endemann / Get Bored.
Veronika Zöller / A Brief Apology for the State and University Library Hamburg
Nele Deutschmann / "The Coffee House as the Intellectual Space of a Lost Lifestyle"
Mara Weise / Profession(al)ly Failed
Mirjam Faissner / Problem Postponed. On the Morality of Commercial Escape Assistance
Clara van den Berg / Military and Gender in Israel
Simon Grumprecht / Boundless Scarcity
Michael Stempfhuber / A Neat Disorder of MacGuffins
Jan Boesken / Untitled
Pages: 85
The dying print market is making one last stand: With breathtaking activism, more and more magazines are being published. They are supposed to take over where the viral offensive of digital media loses reach in the name of print media. They are not only meant to disseminate information—something the internet does better, faster, and, probably as a consequence, also more cheaply. They are supposed to also organize the processing of information, to offer reflection, contemplation, and interpretation: this is what is now called "Slow Journalism." This demand and hope are ideologically supported and summarized by the anti-modern term "deceleration." The countless magazines today are manifest evidence that the Gutenberg project can only be preserved through a new form of machine-breaking against the internet and its rapid pace.
Whoever publishes a magazine today finds themselves in bad company. It does not get any better if it is explicitly a student magazine. “Student” does not mean young, fresh, dynamic, or innovative. A "student" is a credit-point-gathering junior member of the labor market. “Student” stands for the absence of secure competencies, experiences, and capital. Anyone who wants to publish a student magazine today acknowledges the arbitrariness and insignificance of an environment that enjoys a certain freedom of action, which, due to a lack of time (see Krüger), can rarely be creatively realized.
The student production of texts and ideas, which has the potential to go beyond the reproduction of texts and ideas tied to education, suffers from being either entirely theory-free or, worse, operating with a certain overlap between authors and readers. This results in analytical terms being replaced by polemical terms, and the bridge to debate is torn down: instead of focusing on the object of interest, it becomes about self-satisfied comfort within one's own nest. This is not to say that internal discussions within existing frameworks are inherently illegitimate, but they often fall short.
The “outreaching” must find a connection if it is to be fruitful.
Publishing a magazine today is neither economically nor politically justifiable. Phrases like "The medium is the message" sound exhausted amidst the roaring noise of the information society. In a panicked fear of boredom (see Endemann), we browse the café (see Deutschmann) for tomorrow’s weather (see Burschyk). We are captivated by our fortune-telling iPhone (see Groll), bought with money we don't really have (see Grumprecht). What was once called "world" and now only manifests as war (see van den Berg) and crisis (see Faissner) barely makes it into the gray boxes (see Zöller) where we deliberately prepare ourselves to become the next generation of professionless "specialist idiots" (see Weise). Is there still something left to say? (see Boesken) We hope to create the possibility of open, prosthetic thinking. With this in mind, we are pleased to present to you the first issue on the topic of Deficiency.
We would like to thank Dr. Martin Stempfhuber for his guest contribution, A Neat Disorder of MacGuffins, which we would like to draw attention to here.
Content:
Tim Burschyk / On the Predictability of the Future
Art W. Krüger / Image of Death and Lifespan
Mirjam Groll / Illuminating and Dark at the Same Time
Fabian Endemann / Get Bored.
Veronika Zöller / A Brief Apology for the State and University Library Hamburg
Nele Deutschmann / "The Coffee House as the Intellectual Space of a Lost Lifestyle"
Mara Weise / Profession(al)ly Failed
Mirjam Faissner / Problem Postponed. On the Morality of Commercial Escape Assistance
Clara van den Berg / Military and Gender in Israel
Simon Grumprecht / Boundless Scarcity
Michael Stempfhuber / A Neat Disorder of MacGuffins
Jan Boesken / Untitled
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