Table of Contents
Preface 15
1 Remembering the Dead 19
2 Body Hair 19
3 How Are You Today? 20
4 Writing 21
5 Radio Hosts 22
6 Social Exclusion at Fifty? 23
7 After Petzold's Phoenix 24
8 Pigment Spots 25
9 Rolling Suitcases 26
10 Racism Reloaded 26
11 Ambivalent Grief 27
12 Valuable 28
13 The Year of Magical Thinking 28
14 Try Me I Am Tea 29
15 Charlie Est Un Homme 30
16 Sexual Harassment in the Art World 31
17 "They" 31
18 Music and the Beyond 32
19 Good Art, Bad Market 33
20 The Work Is Done, The Relationship Over 34
21 Ice-Skating 35
22 Pictures Have Another Way of Grabbing You 35
23 The Pull of Celebrities 36
24 Hospital Beds 37
25 The Sky Hangs Lower Over Berlin 38
26 Business Dress Code 38
27 Patriarchy Late In Life 39
28 Artwork Vs. Luxury Good 40
29 Germany's Next Topmodel 41
30 Madonna Falls 43
31 Excerpts 45
32 The Seating Plan 45
33 Sneakers 46
34 Biopolitics on Ibiza 48
35 Spirals of Memory 48
36 Spa Painting 49
37 Criminal Art Agent 50
38 A Family from Syria 52
39 Handwritten Death Notice 53
40 Baby Carriages and Wheelchairs 53
41 Clouds of Incense 54
42 Voice Mail 55
43 A Play by Pollesch 56
44 The Year of the Gift 58
45 Deskilling Vs. Reskilling 59
46 Cologne Central Station 60
47 Academic Texts 61
48 Marriage 62
49 Late Orphanhood 63
50 Methodology of the Love of Painting 63
51 Second-Class Patient 64
52 The Doctor's Condition 65
53 Luxury for All 65
54 Yoga as Opium of the People 66
55 Feet as Ornament 67
56 Bearded Men 67
57 Labels in the Collector's Museum 68
58 Transparent 69
59 Pygmalion Revisited 70
60 Dead Mothers and Misogyny 71
61 Vetements 73
62 The Overwork Crises in Academia 75
63 Start of the Season at the Tennis Club 76
64 Old Photos and Letters 77
65 Before the Law: Rembrandt 78
66 Love as Event 79
67 Daft Punk 80
68 Mellowing With Age 82
69 Running a Light 83
70 Frozen Yogurt 84
71 Open Letters 85
72 Separated Mom 86
73 A White Truck 88
74 The Tate Expansion 88
75 Idiosyncrasies of Youth 90
76 Selling a House 91
77 Didier Eribon's Returning to Reims 92
78 Swimming Trunks 94
79 Reading Knausgaard 94
80 The Girlfriend Experience 95
81 Luxury Yachts 96
82 Middle Age in France 96
83 Status Updates on Facebook 97
84 Éluard's Art Sales 98
85 Elections in Berlin 99
86 Mom's Clothes 100
87 Grieving Unleashed by Classical Music 101
88 Lecture by Jeff Koons 102
89 A Vehicle in the Street 104
90 Skype 105
91 Clearing Out 106
92 Crossfit Boot Camp 107
93 Unproductive Productive Workers 108
94 Carolin Emcke's Prize Speech 109
95 Coaching Instead of Therapy 110
96 Back in Travemünde 112
97 The Advantages of Farsightedness 113
98 Trump as President 114
99 Tablet vs. Print 115
100 The Network Metaphor 116
101 Douglas Crimp's Before Pictures 116
102 Retrospective Transfiguration 117
103 Tattoos 119
104 Does It Spark Joy? 120
105 Absent Witness 121
106 Daughter of the Dead 122
107 Trump's Press Conference 123
108 This Is Fake Art: Richard Prince 124
109 Toe Operation 125
110 Françoise Sagan's Contradictions 126
111 Flat Shoes 128
112 Passport Photo 128
113 A Dream about My Father 129
114 Personal Shopper 130
115 Tax Documents 132
116 Stripes 132
117 Irmgard Keun's Letters to Arnold Strauss 134
118 Mourning Work at the Gym 135
119 Ingeborg Bachmann's Dream Diaries 135
120 Souvenir 136
121 Dana Schutz vs. Hannah Black 137
122 I Wouldn't Say That 138
123 The Gap Wants to be Original 139
124 Easter Greetings from Angela Merkel 140
125 Macron's Arrangement 140
126 Market Success and Disloyalty 142
127 Attractive Gallery Staff 143
128 Economy of Enrichment 144
129 Dad's Birthday 145
130 Red Radio 146
131 Merlin Carpenter, "Business Women," Galerie Neu, 6/13-8/11/2017 147
132 Exhibition Titles in the Imperative 150
133 Magritte's Le March and D'art 150
134 Separated From Others on the Mat? 151
135 Helmut Kohl's Sons 152
136 The Left Must Not Meme 153
137 Getting a Driver's License at Fifty-Four 154
138 The Auto-Club Practice Track 155
139 Cézanne's Portrait of His Father 156
140 A Balenciaga Jacket 158
141 Deceased Sleepless Mother 159
142 Occupied Volksbühne 159
143 The Return of the Repressed in Vancouver 161
144 Enemies in the Audience 162
145 Working Out 163
146 Side Gigs 164
147 The Case of Knight Landesman and the "Not Surprised" Petition 165
148 #Metoo and Me 167
149 The Calm before the Storm 168
150 Effects of Liveliness and Their Contexts 169
151 Without a Safety Net 170
152 Getting Up Early 171
153 Leftist Men 172
154 Birthday after Mom's Death 173
155 Annie Ernaux's the Years 173
156 Contact-Lens Crisis 174
157 Abuse as Currency 175
158 Timo Blunck's Didn't We Use to Have Sex in the 80s? 177
159 The Shape of My Mother's Nails 178
