Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

• Cyborg
• Ergonomics

• Autorenfilm
• Krieg
• Naher Osten
• Filmerfahrung

• Feminismus
• Politik
• Literatur
• Autorschaft

• Kreislauf
• Ernährung
• Rohstoff
• Zirkulation
• Materialität

• Exil
• Karl Marx
• Kommunismus
• Film
• Monotheismus