Art and aesthetics are a kind of problematic equation, perhaps a forgotten or even interrupted relationship that has to be reconsidered over and over again.

Raping the Reader: Politics as Disturbance

Entkunstung als Formel kritischer Kunst

Blade Runner 2049

We are too busy with ourselves.

Was heute „Normcore“ heißt, ist eine Neuauflage dessen, was in den neunziger Jahren als „Anti-Fashion“ bezeichnet wurde.

Weaving the Multi-Layered Web of (Digital) Power

All Fires the Fire

What comes to light now, though, is the territory beyond the Uncanny Valley.

The Edited Body for a Particular Purpose

In art one can identify the issue of corruption as a matter of disconnection and non-representation.

Reguetón Theory

One last thing about Kim Kardashian’s instafame: are you surprised that she gets hundreds of thousands of dollars for one sponsored post she uploads? KM: The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Individuals, unlike market bonds or particles, are tied by values, expectations, beliefs, cosmologies and references that define their identity.

Is the result of biogenetics not that we, “ordinary” humans, effectively are that—humans who don’t know they are not humans, i.e., neuronal machines with self-awareness?

Liminal Fetish and Diffuse Image at 1350°

Towards a New Political Paradigm in Times of Social Amnesia

Freedom requires creating institutions and practices; it involves shaping new and durable worlds. And this is a task that every generation must bear anew.

The perfect dictatorship begins when the regime turns people spying on themselves, vigilant, infamous. Anytime, anywhere, the other is not a we.

It is not the artwork at the hub of the artistic dynamics but the process.