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Quick 5 operates not only as a repository of information but as an adaptive framework that facilitates the exchange and intersection of ideas. Contributors provide a curated selection of texts that reflect their current engagements, offering a temporal and contextual glimpse into their evolving areas of inquiry and practice. By positioning tools—be they conceptual frameworks or material applications—within a collaborative and meaning-driven context, Quick 5 underscores the critical role of collective engagement in the full realization of technical and theoretical potential.

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Nikkomi Weiss – Jewler/Artist 

Revolution She Wrote – Clara Fraser

This Sex Which Is Not One – Luce Irigaray

Technofudalism – Yanis Varoufakis 

The Witch and The Caliban – Silvia Federicci 

Markets Not Capitalism – Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson

F – Jutta Koerther 

Liam Crockard – Artist

The Artisan – Jean Baudrillard

Surrogacy – John Roberts 

Empire of the Sign and Poetry –Byun Chul Han

Folly and Academy – Luigi Tazzi 

Amateur Time and Busman’s Holiday – Stephen Knott 

 

Maria Cynkier – Curator and Researcher

Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking – Yuk Hui

Seeing, Naming, Knowing – Nora N Khan 

The Dark Theory of the Internet – Bogna Konior 

Searching Earth For Alien Worlds – Philip Maughan 

Mine as Paradigm – Yusoff, Kathryn

Africanus Okokon – Artist 

Words Per Page – Paul Sharits 

For Opacity – Edouard Glissant 

Breast of Aphrodite – C. Nadio Seremetakis 

The Metaphysics of Crackel: Afrofuturism and Hauntology – Mark Fisher 

Metaphors on Vision – Stan Brakhage

Klara Debeljak –  Artist and Writer

YOU SAY I DO NOT EXIST: Theory of the Chrono-Ghettos – Klara Debeljak

Dead Zones of the Imagination – David Graeber

Sick Woman Theory – Johanna Hedva

City as a Blackbox – Agnieszka Antkowiak

Five Poems – Kwame Boateng

Ben Schumacher – Artist 

Kreig – Rainald Goetz

Wahrheit Ist Arbeit – Walter Büttner, Martin Kippenberger, Alberth Oehlen 

Sonne Busen Hammer – Jutta Koether, Cosima Von Bonin, Michaela Eichwald

One Has To Be Able To Take It – Martin Kippenberger and Jutta Koether 

Berlin Childhood Around 1900 – Walter Benjamin 

Brennan Stalford – Artist

Tradition and the Individual Talent – T.S. Eliot

Approaching Abjection – Julia Kristeva

The Society of the Exhibition – Byung-Chul Han

Sculpting in Time – Andrey Tarkovsky

The Persistence of the Past – Henri Bergson

Riley Weaver – Philosopher 

First up, one of the few dialogical offerings from Heidegger’s corpus,  “Ἀγχιβασίη: A Triadic Conversation on a Country Path between a Scientist, a Scholar, and a Guide”

Next, my personal favourite essay by the perennially unsung Reiner Schürmann “Technicity, Topology, Tragedy: Heidegger on That Which Saves in the Global Reach”. Dense but mindblowing paper situating Heidegger’s well-known but less-thoroughly understood essay on technology, specifically delving into its implication for and relationship to H.’s notion of truth as evental and conflictual, i.e. as a process of disclosure-concealment. 

Then, another modern classic, Agamben’s text “What is an Apparatus?”, in which he at once advances and complicates Foucault’s notion of the dispositif, this through his excavation of the importance of theological economy in the history of wester phil.

Achille Mbembe’s essay “Viscerality”, the fourth chapter of his work Necropolitics.

Lastly, an essay very fond to me heart, Tiqqun’s “A Critical Metaphysics Could Emerge as A Science of Apparatuses”. Has anyone ever written so incisively about highways? In going back to this for the first time in a few years, I was pleasantly surprised to find Schürmann figure so prominently in it, and just generally for how sympathetic the project was to Heidegger, tho it is clearly the Heidegger of RS’s ontological anarchist interpretation. 

Jesse Mckee – Curator 

What Is Influence – Caroline Busta

Sacred Stacks: The Art of Cyborg Community 

Public AI: Infrastructure for the Common Good – Public Ai Network

Dispersion – Seth Price

Benjamin Bratton in conversation with Kathy Acker 

Hugh Scott-Douglas – Artist 

On Techno-Aesthetics – Gilbert Simondon to Jacques Derrida

The Ceremony Must Be Found – Sylvia Wynter

Toward A Surplus of Life – Frances Stracey on Pinot-Gallizio 

The Cybernetic Hypothesis – Tiqqun

Notes on the Formation of an Imaginist Bahaus – Asger Jorn