"I plan to shoot a documentary which follows, for a couple of months the work on one project, from the first briefing until the presentation in the presence of a client, in the presence or absence of Rem Koolhaas." (Harun Farocki, 1999). By TOM HOLERT

If anything is possible, no boundaries apply anymore — not those of the rule of law, not those of humanity, not even the simplest rules of mutual solidarity. A note by VOLKER PANTENBURG

A discussion which touched on questions of montage and the possibility of image criticism.

"Whatever his media, he rigorously and unrelentingly interrogated the translation of thought into language, never losing sight of the fact that media function according to the repetition of specific codes in the form of words, phrases, gestures, body techniques, pictures, images, and shot sequences." An excerpt from "Harun Farocki: Forms of Intelligence" by NORA M. ALTER

"[...] loitering through the streets of Tel Aviv on a winter night, when we asked strangers to help us keep warm."

“Operational” turns out to be characterized by mutual connections and interdependencies, which is why this politically motivated and complicating concept is so useful for opening up the diverse interface processes that are in use today on a planetary scale. By JAN DISTELMEYER

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And now, is there a way for me to see you beyond my own reflections upon you, in order to behold your power? An essay by KEVIN B. LEE

Why is it that the visible is constantly privileged as something truth-bearing in modernity when, in many cases, it provides very little, or in some cases virtually no information at all? An essay by HANS CARLSSON.

A text by ERHARD SCHÜTTPELZ. See German post.

Excerpts from an introduction to Harun Farocki’s oeuvre in relation to Egypt and the Arab region by ALI HUSSEIN AL-ADAWY.

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