Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps the real displacement and disenfranchisement after which romantic notions of “bohemia” were later formed may again be a very real threat?

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DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT / Faces of bohemia at one hundred and fifty

THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE AT THE SYSTEMIC EDGE / Three questions for Saskia Sassen

AT THE END OF ALTERNATIVES / An interview with Cornelia Koppetsch

PHILIPP EKARDT FIORUCCI MADE ME NORMCORE / Five observations on art, style, and scenes today

DOUGLAS COUPLAND

DANIEL KELLER HOTTEST NEW ALT MARRIAGE STACK SOLUTIONS / Paratext and Glossary by Ella Plevin

CAROLINE BUSTA BASIC INSTINCT / Cyber-channels and the female pose

STEPHAN DILLEMUTH WHAT’S YOUR NAME, BOHEMIA?

THE DEATH OF ILLUSION / An interview with Noura Wedell BILDSTRECKE MORAG KEIL

NICHT TRENNEN, WAS NICHT ZU TRENNEN IST / Susanne Leeb über einige jüngere Publikationen zu Otto Mühls Friedrichshof-Kommune

DISKURSIVES SCHWINGVERGNÜGEN / Christian Höller über Tom Holerts Textsammlung „Übergriffe. Zustände und Zuständigkeiten der Gegenwartskunst“ LIEBE ARBEIT KINO

O CRONENBERG! (A SPOILER) / Mark von Schlegell on David Cronenberg’s recent movie “Maps to the Stars” and novel “Consumed” KLANG KÖRPER

ANIMIERTE BILDKULISSEN / Kalani Michell über Lucy Raven im Portikus, Frankfurt/M.

DEFORMIERTER RUNDFUNK / Holger Schulze über The Lake (Kopenhagen) und Know-wave (New York)

Nick Zedd on Greer Lankton at Participant Inc, New York / Tess Edmonson on Amalia Ulman at James Fuentes, New York / Hanna Magauer über Walead Beshty bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin / Ana Teixeira Pinto on Oliver Laric at Tanya Leighton, Berlin / Barbara Hess über Jana Euler im Bonner Kunstverein

EINE PRIVATE ÖFFENTLICHKEIT / Kerstin Stakemeier über Florine Stettheimer im Lenbachhaus, München

NOT ONLY THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR / Rachel Haidu on Robert Gober at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

TOTAL CONFUSION / Christian Naujoks on Cosima von Bonin at Mumok, Vienna

GLOOM / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Taipei Biennial 2014

BAUEN OHNE MAUERN / Sophie Goltz über Lina Bo Bardi in der Pinakothek der Moderne, München

MAMMA MIA / Beate Söngten über Michaela Meise im Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

A GLIMPSE AT THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAINTINGS / Catherine Chevalier on Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou, Paris

LEWIS BALTZ (1945–2014) by Jeff Rian

Editions: TOMMA ABTS AVERY SINGER