{"product_id":"copy-of-this-soil-we-have-created-for-ourselves","title":"This Soil We Have Created For Ourselves","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center\u003eIn Stock!\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center\u003eShhiping now\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e*\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSoft cover, thread stitching,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e76 Pages, 44 B\/W Photographs,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTritone printing,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e21.6 x 29.3 cm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdition of 500 copies,\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e( 30 special edition copies include a signed print on baryta paper )\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEditing by Jonas Feige and Misha Kominek\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDesign by Jonas Feige, Krispin Heé \u0026amp; Tim Wetter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKominek Books 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n*\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistory is an errant and pliant concept that haunts dreams and fevers the imaginations of the living. It refuses to be fixed, and in its continual motivation for disobedience, it compounds society’s motivations to relate to its recorded events, moments, and changes that have led to a tacit knowledge of the present. In this, history challenges our reliability as something impartial or bearable. In abandoning fixity, history presents an uncertainty more than it offers a solid foundation from which to draw rationality. We covet the narrative of history for our perception of its functions as a way of illuminating our beliefs, however poorly tendered.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSignificant themes are redressed in history, and they reform institutions and cultural movements alike. These themes and stories of the past can be borrowed from, bent, and modified to assign a new script or character. The wary citizens of the present use these themes to illustrate and compel historical episodes into backing credentials and reference points for the propaganda of the now. As the noted theorist and historian Frederic Jameson has pointed out, a license to regard history and its moving components as fixed is to err on the side of incaution as a gesture of mutable conscience. As per Jameson, “Always Historicize!” is a crucial and significant response to the problem of history, the past, and its manipulations from the present period.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHistory at best is a condition that suggests reverberation and echo are its main currencies. There is a relatable notion to history and the past, but one of which can never be exacted by someone who did not experience it firsthand. These echoes and reverberations can be considered convenient when they fulfill a confirmation bias in political terms. In that same example, they can destroy rationality in favor of misread or a mythologizing that tends history as insoluble and its rubric supreme.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p2\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJonas Feige’s \u003cstrong\u003eTHIS \u003cspan class=\"s1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" mce-data-marked=\"1\"\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003eOIL WE HAVE CREATED FOR OURSELVES\u003c\/strong\u003e suggests that history is an echo and perhaps also a shadow. The artist photographs his native Germany, his \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeimat, \u003c\/i\u003ewith an alarmingly poetic sensibility. Underneath the beauty of Feige’s lens lurks a suggestion that history is incomplete, and the echoes of the past are, instead of diminishing, ringing louder. Though the artist uses a lyrical sensibility to discuss German history and its contemporary possibilities to be read as convenient propaganda, the artist also exhibits imagery outright of significance. The 1936 Berlin Olympic stadium with its cracked bell emblazoned with a swastika is one example in which the artist declares the reverberation both in literal and metaphoric terms. His use of shadow on the sides of German homes suggests an encroaching ideological tussle mirrored by the concept of the Volk who dwell between their walls. The emphasis on history and nationhood casts a long shadow over the present that Feige photographs, and he asks us to consider what potential the past has for Germany’s future. The book is a powerful reminder that history and its problematic discourses are never closed and that at any point, variations on its themes may present a disagreeable usage.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrad Feuerhelm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e*\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:\" center class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kominekominekominek.shop\/products\/copy-of-the-soil-we-have-created-for-ourselves-special-edition\"\u003eLink to Special Edition\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Jonas Feige","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66860237685040,"sku":null,"price":47.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/3432\/7600\/files\/this_soil_new_cover_02_8ca3692e-4c2a-4ba8-87e6-f62807cb4557.jpg?v=1779607736","url":"https:\/\/pkdtyc-s0.myshopify.com\/products\/copy-of-this-soil-we-have-created-for-ourselves","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}