Ferrars & Fields Magazine 04/24

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Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No sur­face holds. No fig­ure, line, or point remains. No ground sub­sists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. With­out a sol­id crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thick­ness of our body, our all touch­ing itself. Where top and bot­tom, inside and out­side, in front and behind, above and below are not sep­a­rat­ed, remote, out of touch. Our all inter­min­gled. With­out breaks or gaps.”

Manifestation of the Dream: Silvia Federici’s “Caliban and the Witch” (2004)

The witch craze wages a war against Lilith, who, born from Adam’s clay, refused to obey the Man. The burn­ings of her kin­dred become great pub­lic spectacles.
Lilith leaves her life to the flames,
sac­ri­ficed upon the altar of a fab­ri­cat­ed God. But her truth will be known in the smoke, and the ash­es, and in the earth.

The Queerest Place on Earth

Some­thing hap­pened to queer­ness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-nor­ma­tive desire and embod­i­ment as “queer” – with the advent of the inter­net, queer com­mu­ni­ties also became digi­tised. Our knowl­edge and our inti­ma­cy is now unthink­able with­out vast transat­lantic cir­cuits and cor­po­rate filters.

Birth of the Dream: Friedrich Engels’ The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884)

The close cor­re­la­tion between the emer­gence of pri­vate prop­er­ty and the oppres­sion of women, as pro­posed by Engels, offers an intrigu­ing the­o­ry for under­stand­ing the devel­op­ment of an ear­ly patri­archy and the pro­gres­sion of the patri­ar­chal sys­tem with­in the his­tor­i­cal con­text of Europe. We are com­pelled to won­der whether essen­tial­ism, which ascribes inher­ent dom­i­nance instincts to men and sub­mis­sion instincts to women, pro­vides a valid expla­na­tion for the ascen­dan­cy of one gender’s pow­er over the oth­er. Origin’s silence on this mat­ter neces­si­tates a more pro­found explo­ration into the under­ly­ing rea­sons behind the estab­lish­ment of patri­ar­chal pow­er structures.

A Sun’s Death in the Ether

“Vio­lence rup­tures the sky in half—
It shat­ters every world that’s in the mak­ing of a map of light.
I fall fast between drops of blood.
With pre­ci­sion I cut into my skin and sev­er the sun from me.”

Halters

In a world gone void, some peo­ple lit­er­al­ly can­not let go of their trauma—and chan­nel its destruc­tive ener­gy into fight­ing the good fight, meth­ods and costs be damned.

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Schnürsenkeltage

Sie achtet darauf, nicht zu stolpern über die Wurzeln, die den Asphalt in ihrer Straße aufgerissen haben, und über die Kantsteine und Schlaglöcher und all die anderen Stolperfallen.

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Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, ...

The Queerest Place on Earth

Something happened to queerness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-normative desire and embodiment as “queer” – with the advent of the internet, queer communities also became digitised. Our knowledge and our intimacy is now unthinkable without vast transatlantic circuits and ...

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Nobody inspected the dangling Marias… None fretted for the 40 different infant Jesuses, threatening to tumble with the mama to the floor.

Ferrars & Fields ESSAYS & OPINIONS

Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, ...

The Queerest Place on Earth

Something happened to queerness in the 1990s. Not only did we begin to describe more and more forms of non-normative desire and embodiment as “queer” – with the advent of the internet, queer communities also became digitised. Our knowledge and our intimacy is now unthinkable without vast transatlantic circuits and ...

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Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, ...

Imagining Dark Continents

The concept of the sea—extending infinitely everywhere all the time—and of the islands—sovereign worlds which nonetheless affect other such islands—emerges as a world structure which becomes a sanctuary from singularity to all creatures it carries.

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Religious Art

Nobody inspected the dangling Marias… None fretted for the 40 different infant Jesuses, threatening to tumble with the mama to the floor.

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Imagining Dark Continents

The concept of the sea—extending infinitely everywhere all the time—and of the islands—sovereign worlds which nonetheless affect other such islands—emerges as a world structure which becomes a sanctuary from singularity to all creatures it carries.

2023 Wrapped

In Zahlen und Gefühlen: Der Ferrars & Fields Jahresrückblick 2023.

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Unsere Autorin schlägt vor, den Anspruch eines ganzen und/oder ganzheitlichen Körpers fallenzulassen und sich stattdessen einer dezidiert fragmentarischen Betrachtung seiner Einzelteile zu widmen. Dieses Mal geht es um weiche, um knubbelige und um gebeugte Knie, um weibliche Knie, aber auch um die Knie von Harry Potter, Willy Brandt und Alexander ...

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Unsere Autorin zerlegt den Körper, wie es ihr gefällt, und assoziiert frei irgendwo zwischen Kultur- und persönlicher Geschichte der menschlich-körperlichen Einzelteile. In der heutigen Anatomiestunde ist der Nacken länger als der Hals und von Guillotine bis Smartphone allerlei Gefahren ausgesetzt.

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Woman’s Grammar in the Dream: When Our Lips Speak Together

“No surface holds. No figure, line, or point remains. No ground subsists. But no abyss, either. Depth, for us, is not a chasm. Without a solid crust, there is no precipice. Our depth is the thickness of our body, our all touching itself. Where top and bottom, inside and outside, ...

Ferrars & Fields Fiction

A Sun’s Death in the Ether

"Violence ruptures the sky in half— It shatters every world that’s in the making of a map of light. I fall fast between drops of blood. With precision I cut into my skin and sever the sun from me."

Schnürsenkeltage

Sie achtet darauf, nicht zu stolpern über die Wurzeln, die den Asphalt in ihrer Straße aufgerissen haben, und über die Kantsteine und Schlaglöcher und all die anderen Stolperfallen.

Halters

In a world gone void, some people literally cannot let go of their trauma—and channel its destructive energy into fighting the good fight, methods and costs be damned.

Join the Family [writers] Mercy Ferrars, Adrien Fields, Ralph Mönius, Ina Raterink, Bianca Ierullo, Martin Bäckert, Mona Schlachtenrodt, Annika Klares, Lisa Kämling, Esther Louise, Hannah Jäger, Hannah Kruge, Ly Le, Sophie Lilian Knote, Benjamin Baumann, Claire Fisher, Lara Shaker, Sandra Reichert, Clara Berlich, Héloise Markert, Lisa Damm [readers] Adrien Fields, Bianca Othmann, Carolin Diefenbach, Daniela Mertens, Lara Helena, Anja Degner, Martin Bäckert, Mercy Ferrars, Clemens Hübner, Macy Ripley, Jan Kabasci, Luke Shiller, Michelle Markau, Martha-Luise Ockert [guests] Carina Spiegelstaub, Iris Antonia Kogler, Jol Rosenberg, Malvón, Yvonne Tunnat, Nora Großmann, Martin König, Imke Felicitas Gerhardt, Hugo Scheubel, Jules van der Linden, Nika Pavot, Zeke Greenwald, Silvia Russo, Noelle Jaene, Izabela Zarebska [UX/UE Design, Publisher, Newsletter] Mercy Ferrars [Social Media] Mercy Ferrars, Héloise Markert, Martha-Luise Ockert [Crowdfunding] Lara Helena, Luke Shiller, Jan Kabasci, Martha-Luise Ockert CREATED BY Mercy Ferrars & Adrien Fields

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