The title of publication series Agathe Bauer stands for a broadly misheard hook Ive got the power from a German 1990 Eurodance hit The Power by the band Snap!. The hook that turned the song into a hit, came from Jocelyn Browns track Love's Gonna Get You, but neither her name nor the track appears in the credits. And, here is where Agathe Bauer comes in - a mysterious being who acquires agency through the homophonic misinterpretation of the main hook Ive got the power.

In Issue Zero: Picking Up Promises Agathe has an agenda. Nothing could be as it would have been, but she is here to trace the sources of how it has become. Agathe Bauer is here to analyze the capacity of misinterpretation to unveil asymmetric power structures in knowledge systems and by tuning into the social-political, cultural and aesthetic dimension of it.

Issue Zero: Picking Up Promises features contributions by: Gabriela Acha, [{CIBELLE(CAVALLI}BASTOS)], Lynn Hershman Leeson, Romy Kieling, Markues, Luzie Meyer, Maru Mushtrieva, Claudia Pags, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Miriam Stoney, Christine Sun Kim, Eric Winkler, Miriam Yammad, Anna Zett.