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now: Rett Kopi documents the future The publication has sought to juxtapose academic, literary and artistic responses to the manifesto genre. We have collected such responses from an international ensemble of brilliant scholars, writers and artists. «Rett Kopi documents the future» contains a collection of manifestos in English and Norwegian. >> Each manifesto in the collection is supplied with an ENDNOTE. W.J.T. Mitchell, Ina Blom, Donna Haraway, Yokoland, Eric Alliez, Hannah Higgins, Johanna Drucker, Michèle Cohen-Halimi, Roberto Ohrt, Ken Friedman, Stewart Home, McKenzie Wark and Joan Retallack are among the contributors. Avant-garde and/or manifesto experts Janet Lyon, Martin Puchner and Sven-Olov Wallenstein have submitted articles that, in different ways, try to rethink the temporality of the avant-garde manifesto, while Marjorie Perloff offer new perspectives on Marinetti’s first futurist manifesto. Kristine Stiles discusses the role of the manifesto in the work of Gustav Metzger. Mikkel Bolt contributes with a study of one of the manifestos of the Situationist International. Rett Kopi introduces RETT ENQUÊTE. We ask: Can the future be documented? Éric Alliez, Andrew Benjamin, Christoph Büchel, Fine Art Union Stewart Home, Martin Högström, Amelia Jones, Mutant, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joan Retallack, Marcus Steinweg, Jørn H. Sværen, Stein K.T. Sørensen, Gunnar Wærness and Øyvind Ådland respond. We hope that the publication may generate further interest in the history, poetics and politics of the manifesto, that it may challenge common conceptions of the manifesto genre, as well as inspire new efforts at providing the future with new content. |
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PRAISE Susanne Christensen, Klassekampen «Rett Kopi recycles a selection of more or less classic and well-known manifestoes, precisely not in a nostalgic-retrospective spirit, but rather as fuel for renewal or even progress (a word few people have dared to use lately) … It is … a splendid publication whose international standard, inspirational force and entertainment value call for it to become a bestseller amongst artists as well as academics in the Nordic countries.» Tania Ørum, Kritiker «And seldom (never in a Nordic context) has this genre received such a multi-faceted and fascinating elucidation. … One can only hope that Rett Kopi documents the future will get to many, and that it does so within the near future.» Jesper Olsson, OEI Rich and reader-friendly treatment of artistic practices that are rarely discussed. … The editors present a comprehensive and scrupulous work of research on their subject: the manifesto. Johanne Nordby Wernø, Rett Kopi go their own way. The well over forty manifestoes are edited in a way that places the historical avant-garde in ever new contexts. Particularly thought provoking is the interesting dynamic between the first section consisting of original manifestoes, and the «endnotes» which function like commentaries to each manifesto; this makes a space in which the reader may think the texts further. Annelie Axén, Morgenbladet In The Norwegian literary canon (2008) Audun Lindholm asserts that Rett Kopi documents the future has contributed significantly «to suspend the inhibition of fantasy and … melancholy on behalf of history in Norwegian contemporary literature». VIEW
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Rett Kopi is Ellef Prestsæter
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& Karin Nygård
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