Das Neue Alphabet – Publication series

What access to the world do images create? How can they serve as tools of knowledge? The volume includes the essay On Image Systems in Human History by archaeologist David Wengrow and a conversation between Erhard Schüttpelz, David Wengrow and Anselm Franke about the autonomy of image systems.

From a fatal collision in Singapore to the Chinese high-speed rail system: Capitalist Death Drives and Coin Test China High-Speed Rail Videos is a crisis narrative in the self-destructive phase of capitalism set against the backdrop of current global financial mechanisms and the economic rise of China.

Can clothing protect its wearers in the climate war? The volume Clothed Conflicts examines clothing at the intersections of identity and other power politics. What role do fashion, uniforms and corporeal symbolism play?

The transition from the Holocene to Anthropocene transforms geology into a social science. Geology of the Present mines the stratifications of the planet to date and analyze the new geological era. How can the Earth’s archives of the Anthropocene be made legible?

Music notation, radio or TikTok algorithm: Channel Power examines the ways in which music is recorded and disseminated and the power of these channels to define it – especially in the digital age. It has never been truer than now: The channels make the music.

Forgotten photographs from a defunct Lebanese newspaper show images of airplane hijackings from 1968 to 1970. The volume Perhaps This Is Not the Time... invites us to think about the use of images and about their status as representation, projection or evidence.

In colonial contexts, symbols woven into textiles often contained resistant messages. Colonial languages were also often appropriated and recoded through creolization. How might code be written in Creole? Looming Creole is about a poetics of resistance within a matrix of colonial predation.

How do people perceive sounds? How are auditory experiences constructed? Using the means of artistic research, the volume Sound – Space – Sense conveys an idea of how mental space, social practice and immediate auditory experience relate to each other.

Knowledge as collective practice: The volume about The New Alphabet School presents essays that emerged from meetings in New Delhi, Athens, Porto, Rafah, Dakar, Warsaw and Berlin. It provides insights into current methods of practice-based research in the fields of art and activism.

Students challenge the Eurocentric narratives of their Spanish book with their own images in the form of animated films. Talkback Circuits: New Alphabets at School is dedicated to the use of language in the school microcosm. The volume looks at the pages of books and listens in on conversations at recess.

On coral eras and ice core temporalities: Evidence Ensembles collages a variety of perspectives on the material witnesses to planetary change and their mission for the future. What can be learned from the material and immaterial traces of the first geological phase of the Anthropocene?

How must today’s cultural and scientific institutions change to meet the demands of the Anthropocene? The volume The New Institution uses real-life examples to discuss new counter-institutional practices and concepts.