Politics means breaking with consistency; it means breaking with what is known and already visible.

This is no time for uninformed moralistic incompetence.

It is necessary to promote and ensure the democratic “distribution of the sensible”.

The repetition did not drain my sound however: it converted it to something gradually more familiar: from a song to a foil: to a membrane of my own.

Peter Sloterdijk thinking of Theodor W. Adorno’s birthday

03 ON POLITICS

While it is true that it is difficult to think that artistic forms can abolish borders and orders, it is also true that art serves to question, to confront, and to displace them.

It is evident that art is not going to redeem us—and it is not its function to do so.

ENTKUNSTUNG II Preface

The cybernetic dream of Norbert Wiener is nearly coming true.

Nicht nur kommt die Idealisierung des Prozesses der naiven Neugierde des Kunstliebhabers entgegen und ermutigt den Dilettanten in seinem selbstherrlichen Unvermögen.

Art, like life, needs to be restated constantly and protected daily.

Something with aesthetic qualities means something that hast the power to seduce.