Close Your Eyes Make a Wish is an initiative by Miriam Rohde within the framework of rad_lib💋at radical_house Brussels.

remix #01

Ulrike Meinhof, Deutschland, Deutschland Unter Anderm – Aufsätze und Polemiken / James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time / Isa Genzken, Weltempfänger / Cesare Pavese, Lavorare Stanca / Jana Euler, After Supper

Close your eyes, make a wish. Even if you know that the chances are slim, it will have come true when you open them. Don’t be disappointed; don’t let your head hang low. Come closer and see for yourself which words, images, links unexpectedly pierce through the membrane of relentless information overload and speak to you — how and why, right here and now. it might be better than the latest news. 

Close Your Eyes Make A Wish is a monthly selection presented as a remix of material from the rad_lib💋. A remix can start from a specific book, author, text fragment, headline, or image and from there branch out in different directions. Each remix has a thematic focus, chosen and interpreted by the remixer(s). The backdrop for all remixes is the political present / das politische Heute, how we are involved, not anecdotally but as political beings, and which presents lie dormant in the existing material of rad_lib💋.

Regarding practicalities, there will be textual material in different languages. Each text contribution includes at least one translation into English and, occasionally, additional contextual information. Where possible, a digital English version of the books is made available. All other material is also accessible in digital form to allow for quick copy-and-paste translations into other languages.

INTO THE BRIGHT LIGHT, BATTERED — COMPLICITÉ
is the title of the first cycle of remixes.