DIAPHANES No. 1

<p>Every world view is linked to aesthetic decisions, every thought to its form, every judgment to perception and affect. The fact that this always requires an intermediary, a conveyor, is—given the omni­ presence of multi­ and mass media—both a trivial and a profound insight, the finest shoots of which range from Aristotle’s “the diapha­nous” through Joyce to the present, in which one thing is blatant: what is made visible, and how, shouldn’t be left to either the techno­ or other ideologies.</p> <p>For what seems far too present today, not least in the form of conflicts about images and bodies, and as opaque and diffuse as the present, reality, future, has the appearance … has a powerful appearance, which needs critical interpretation and intellectual sleight of hand alongside linguistic sensibility and aesthetic irascibility if it is to be countered. So here and subsequently we present a small section of the world as an interplay of hard and soft, sounding and iridescing differences and interferences; art and thought, critique and production interrelated and juxtaposed, playfully, seriously, and passionately, for a yet to be conceived “divergent thinking.”</p> <p>So it’s about ART in plural, that makes us see, animates the senses, that is physically compelling. About fiction, if this can be mentio­ned separately at all, about writing and transcendence: literature, in­vention, poetics, and poetry. And about DISCOURSE: lecture, talk, discussion, which all in all means a variety of imaginative and expres­sive forms in a space that is as subjective as it is plural: DIAPHANES as MAGAZINE.</p>