On WithdrawalScenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices (Critical Stances)

A multidisciplinary examination of the forms taken by withdrawal. What forms does withdrawalmeaning either that which withdraws itself or which is being withdrawntake in artistic and cultural practices? What movements does it create or follow in specific contexts, and with what theoretical, material, and political consequences? The contributors to this book address these questions in a variety of writing practices, each focusing on specific scenes. Through interviews, artistic and literary texts, visual contributions, and academic texts, On Withdrawal explores various modalities of withdrawal, ranging from a silencing of critical voices to a political and aesthetic strategy of refusal. Arnika Ahldag, Sofia Bempeza, Lauren Berlant, Kathrin Busch, Helen Cammock, Knut Ebeling, Sebastin Eduardo Dvila, Mutlu Ergn-Hamaz, Stefanie Graefe, Rebecca Hanna John, Ulrike Jordan, Pinar grenci, Pallavi Paul, Thorsten Schneider, Judith Sieber, Diana Taylor, Deniz Utlu, Marivi Vliz, Nele Wulff, and Akram Zaatari On Withdrawal—Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance, and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices Contents On Withdrawal—Introduction Self-Loss as a Form of Knowledge They Call It Idlewild Extended II “Germany Must Detox, Germany Has To Go on Withdrawal” War in the Head: Meditating with Bataille “Very little resistance from the Orient’s part”? On Moments of Failure in Hermann Goetz’s and Robert Lachmann’s Orientalist Journeys “It takes a lot longer to build a city than it does to strike a target.” Reversing Partition as an Art Practice In the Aftermath of Violence. On Being Present and Calling Into Presence Feeling Presences: Regina José Galindo’s Acts of Becoming Someone Else, Something Else Purple Panic: 43 A Psychiatric Clinic, a Monastery, a City and a River. On the (Artistic) Legibility of Disappearance in Topography On Behalf of Grief and Anger. Against an Economy of Remembrance The Discreet Charm of Catastrophe. Vulnerability, Resilience, and Critique in the Era of Multiple Crises Artists in Resilience, or: How to Organize Yourself? The Desire of the Exhausted. Notes on Resilience, Resistance and Adraneia “Let us be a gear in the machinery and at the same time the obstacle of its operation.” Some Thoughts on House of Tupamaras’ Manifesto El fracaso es mi estilo Refusal of Form: The Critical Potential of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Charts for the Paris World’s Fair, 1900 List of Illustrations Contributors