South as a State of Mind Issue 7 Spring/Summer 2016 : Documenta 14 #2 2016 / Editors: Quinn Latimer, Adam Szymczyk

This second volume of the documenta 14 South as a State of Mind explores issues of masking identity and silencing dissent, orality and recognition, indigeneity and exile, provenance and repatriation, and colonial and gendered violence. We examine and don masks, understanding them as historical and contemporary means of occlusion or subversion often employed to defy the ways in which our bodies are unequally accorded basic rights in the dehumanizing nexus and global economy of citizenship, geography, race, and gender. In parallel, we survey silence—one of the many masks of language—as a response to the empty authority and authoritarianism of so much communication, a long linguistic flood of nationalistic propaganda, neoliberal preaching, and coded violence. Contributions: Maria Thereza Alves, Andreas Angelidakis, Mustapha Benfodil, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Barbara Casavecchia, Mariana Castillo Deball, Clementine Deliss, Mahasweta Devi, Elsa Dorlin, HEndrikFolkerts, Regina Jose Galindo, Stathis Gourgouris, John Hejduk, Candice Hopkins, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Frederic Keck, Quinn Latimer, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jolene Rickard, Leoppold Sedar Senghor, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Subcomandante Marcos, Adam Szymczyk.

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