Words become images—writing, drawings, designs. For around twenty years Stefan Marx has been studying script. Lines of songs, sayings, sentences, and quotations, which he then translates in his own script, his graphic writing, into paintings or drawings—two-dimensional surfaces. The poetry of the statements and the painterly quality of the execution combine to form strong works of art. Marx develops each of his pieces with great precision for the specific situation, for the individual work of art, regardless of whether it is an edition, a unique work, a house, or a small invitation card. This is the first book about his Word Paintings in their many varieties and in all media. Essays explain Marx’s drawing, printmaking, and painting, as well as his unique interplay of art and pop culture, sign and life.

Drawing and Reading In 2019, Berlin-based contemporary artist Stefan Marx created a series of drawings for a daily column in The New York Times. Now, he has turned his Reading the News series into quite a unique board book. Whether you think of it as an artist’s book, a coloring book, or an inspiring children’s book, it opens up unusual spaces for our imaginations. With just a few concise lines, Stefan Marx cheerful fruit and veg will change your frame of mind about reading the news.

Stefan Marx draws a great deal on a variety of grounds: large- and small-sized, colored or white paper; on cardboard, porcelain, skateboards, or textiles. He also always likes to draw in small notebooks. He takes them everywhere, because they are convenient, lightweight, and are the right size for any idea. Marx has developed an edition out of these notebooks, with four different covers and sur-prising drawings here and there on the inside pages. The luck of the draw, or coincidence, determines which cover goes to whom, or even better, you can acquire the whole set, if you like. This is a unique notebook for all big and small ideas, thoughts, or texts. This ISBN is for single notebooks only, available in four different cover styles; books are shipped to customers at random. Also available as a set of four with the following ISBN: 9783775746625

Die oeffentliche Kritik verlangt die immanente Kritik der Theorien der OEffentlichkeit. Indem sie nachvollzieht, wie politische Herrschaft in die oeffentlichen Diskurse einwandert, ist sie kritische Theorie der OEffentlichkeit. Indem sie eine Kritik am deliberativen Demokratiekonzept entwickelt, ist sie eine Ethik der Dissidenz. Die These ist, dass die agonale Beschaffenheit des Politischen Anforderungen an die Politik stellt, die sich nicht durch permanenten Diskurs bearbeiten lassen, sondern nur durch ein Bewusstsein fur die Zerbrechlichkeit politischer Praxis. Dissidenz muss dem, was sich bestandig diskursiv als Selbstverstandlichkeit etabliert, immer auf neuem Stand opponieren. Sei es die OEffentlichkeit im Nationalsozialismus oder die diskursive Verflussigung von Souveranitat im World Wide Web.

Stefan Marx verknupft die Portfolio Section Theorie mit der Zeitreihenanalyse und erreicht dadurch, dass die zur Portfolio-Optimierung benotigten Parameter durch zeitreihenanalytische Methoden zur Verfugung gestellt werden."