//subjectile

xurban.net/subjectile is a responsive web publication for daily xurban practices


 
//.manifesto

1. Globalisation was a lie…

2. Global is the free floating capital, defying national borders, penetrating…

3. Commodity/spectacle is in worldwide circulation, unlike peoples of the world...

4. The 'liberal' aims at the liberation of capital, not the freedom.Money liberates, and for the rest it is the military-police state as usual...

5. To Tolstoy, "Government is Violence." But to think that the salvation lies in the initiative of the multi-national corporation appears as a grave mistake...

6. The civil society should be constructed outside the state and the capitalist sponsor networks. "Non-profit organizations are traps...

7. The autonomy of culture and identity can exist as being autonomous only from commerce…

8. The apparent diffusion of ownership and the swift moves of the capital aim at manipulation. No market index is justified by the actual production, just as no value for labor is just...

9. The global culture of capitalism breeds nationalism and fanaticism. The thugs kill for recognition...

10. The only transnational territory is still the world wide web, as long as it is not sold out in a merger with English as the transnational language...

11. Power corrupts, be it official or unofficial. The xurbanite aims at stripping the self off any power moves...

xurban_collective, 2000 - ny-ist

/notion

Trademarks and the Clash of Civilizations:
Authentic versus Counterfeit

Text_09_2006
[xurban_collective]

An Interim Report: Istanbul Exclusive
Text_01_2006
[xurban_collective]

Nullify the Void
A manifestation_05_2005
[xurban_collective]

Shock & Awe
Text_03_2003
[pope&imam]

Art.Politics
A manifestation_2000
[pope@xurban]

 
/.scape

Diagolues Accross Borders
[pope &pagan]
A xurban workshop in Yerevan_07_2007
Coming soon!

The City of Ruins
[pope & imam]
A xurban installation project_03_2004

In Memoriam Derelicti...
[pope@xurban]
The poetics of the derelict as opposed to the military, the technocratic, the financial and the cultural management of the metropolis: fuck the new order, let the old one rot in peace_2001

Bes Sehir / Five Cities
[pope@xurban]
A photographic survey of the city, from East to West, just when the metropolis turns itself into a spectacle, when the 'Flâneur' is the tourist, and the ruins pile up as we are carried away towards the future_2001

Kursun Asker / Lead Soldier
[albay@xurban]
Bir bacagi eksik bolunmez butunluk / Inseperable unity without one leg

b a c k t o l i f e
[albay@xurban]
an experiment on animal behaviour.social isolation issue in a special type aquarium.

Un-for-tu-na-te Com-po-si-tion
[imam@xurban]
A backward, self-ironic, exploration of fragmented psyche, part of the anuscope project_2000

Paranomic-Distributions I . II
[imam@xurban]
A proposal :The possibility of suspension image. An image, does not evolve, does not stand, does not succeed. Just exhausts itself. An idea : The smell of the death bodies carried away with the dust. The rain could not clean. The society, the hygienic one, has already rotten, decayed, mortified. The endless trauma is the mediatic one_05_2000

Under Construction
[imam@xurban]
For the construction of new buildings the workmen are waiting, the architects are waiting, the engineers are waiting. All of us, with our institutions and organizations are at the service of The Turkish Construction Sector_1998

Off The Book / Kayitdisi Mekanlar
[pope@xurban]
Surveying Istanbul's 'Historical Peninsula' as the markets and the Bazaar defy the logic of late capitalism and the multi-national corporation, in a tradition going back to Byzantium_2000

Kabil Körfezi / Gulf of Kabul: Bir Koy, Bes Al
[pope@xurban]

A 7 holes trip in the cave
[shaman@xurban

 
/.stream

Tears of the Prime Minister
[imam@xurban]
A speculative study on corporeal clichés.

Project g+y-1
[imam@xurban]
A work about bodies, home-design and the capital city of the nation-state.

Welcome to the Party
[imam@xurban]

 
//.brief

Functioning as an international collective since 2000, xurban_collective has members located in Izmir, Istanbul, Linz and New York City. Xurban_collective's mission is to investigate the questioning, examination, and discussion of contemporary politics, theory, and ideology. Documentary photography, video, and text are often combined in an effort to render visible the multiplicity of informative layers inherent in the subjects or situations explored.

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//.webmail
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//.info+

xurban.net, art and politics since 2000
new york,istanbul,amsterdam,ankara,izmir,berlin
current clerics: albay, haci, imam, pagan, pope, shaman, kafir

felt (at) xurban (.dot) net
us tel: + 1.646.283.5252
tr tel: + 90.536.703.5739

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