Luise Marchand
The Signs Are Good
Post-industrial society has lost its grip on notions of work, rest and
leisure. The rise of immaterial labour has been met with a growing
optimisation of the individual, a continuous variable with multiple
presences and temporalities. The prevalent tide of mixed, private –
professional engagement forces us to be always, in all ways, switched
on. What does this mean for our intimate lives, our privacy and our
integrity? Our needs and desires are changing, as are our values. Well,
the signs, the prospects, the indications are good. ‘Good for what and
for whom?’ Ask the objects that surround us, that serve us and distract
us on a daily basis. Objects that perform so that we can, too. They
help us tend to our delicate, docile bodies so that we can stay in the
race, multi-tasking and mobile. Carefully compartmentalised, even our
tears are ergonomic these days. Kinesio tape on the shoulder replaces
a warm hand, a touch helping us keep it together. As technologies of
self-regulation and exploitation are condensed and dispersed through
our mental, emotional and physical lives, we’d better stay on the good
side of these gadgets and tools.










#32 non-work
Content
- ––– Editorial
- Editorial
- ––– Introduction
- Introduction
- ––– Project
- Linear Doom
- ––– Profiles
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Agnieszka Polska
- Jakub Jansa
- José Antonio Hernández-Diez
- Jan Pfeiffer
- Daniela & Linda Dostálkovy
- Martina Mullaney
- Shawn Maximo
- Oliver Ressler
- Michele Borzoni
- Céline Berger
- Jirka Skála
- Danilo Correale
- Lars Tunbjörk
- ––– Interview
- Jennifer Lyn Morone with Tereza Jindrová
- ––– Discoveries
- Ines Karčáková
- Egemen Tuncer
- Luise Marchand
- ––– Theory
- The Aspirational Tourist Photographer
- Allan Sekula: Photography Between Discourse and Document
- ––– Events
- Photographs by Camera Clickers and Serious Amateurs
- MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival 2018
- Sicilian Lemons Actually Come from Burma Manifesta 12: The Planetary Garden
- ––– Fotograf Gallery
- Veronika Bromová, Dagmar Bromová and Pavel Brom
- Ondřej Vinš
- Viktor Kopasz
- Daniela & Linda Dostálková
- ––– Reviews
- The Poetic World of Everyday Life
- The Returns of Josef Koudelka
- Inadvertent Images: A History of Photographic Apparitions
- French History of Photography for the Twenty-First Century
- Tillmans' Jahresring 64
- A tribute to an (art)historian of photography
- The Temporality of (New) Media
Archive
- #35 living with humans
- #34 archaeology of euphoria
- #33 investigation
- #32 Non-work
- #31 Body
- #30 Eye In The Sky
- #29 Contemplation
- #28 Cultura / Natura
- #27 Cars
- #26 Documentary Strategies
- #25 Popular Music
- #24 Seeing Is Believing
- #23 Artificial Worlds
- #22 Image and Text
- #21 On Photography
- #20 Public Art
- #19 Film
- #18 80'
- #17 Amateur Photography
- #16 Photography and Painting
- #15 Prague
- #14 Commerce
- #13 Family
- #12 Reconstruction
- #11 Performance
- #10 Eroticon
- #9 Architecture
- #8 Landscape
- #7 New Staged Photography
- #6 The Recycle Image
- #5 Borders Of Documentary
- #4 Intimacy
- #3 Transforming Of Symbol
- #2 Collective Authorship
- #1 Face