A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a
major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and
politics, Europe and America. The German Issue (1982) was
originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)'s
Autonomia/Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although
ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what
ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two
outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions
and contradictions of the world at the time. The German Issue is
the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own
country by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is
also the complex evocation of the rebelling youth-squatters, punks,
artists and radicals, theorists and ex-terrorists-who gathered all
their energy and creativity in order to outlive a hostile
environment. Like a time capsule, The German Issue brings together
all the major "issues" that were being debated on both sides of the
Atlantic-which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989
with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important
voices of the period-from writers and filmmakers to
anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers:
Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish,
Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs,
Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans
Jurgen Syberberg, Heidegger, Andre Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with
Christo's "Wrapping Up of Germany" and the celebrated dialogue
between East German dramaturge Heiner Muller and Sylvere Lotringer
on the Wall ("Mauer"), since published in many languages, The
German Issue offers a first-hand account of the Western world on
the threshold of a major global mutation. It also embodies at its
best Semiotext(e)'s tenacious effort to establish a creative bridge
between art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and
America.
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