Material Matters: On Transparency in Art and Politics

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

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

Clear Aesthetics: The Myth of Minimalism

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?

Deliberate Destruction

An Algorithmic Odyssey

Total transparency is only possible through total control—the latter only exists in a dictatorship.

Images are the new opium of the people, and it is worth to say that artists are neither the only nor the most important dealers.

Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach

Art After The End Of Art

Through artistic performativity, daily routine has become the theatre of all of us, the manifestation of the creative expression of everyone.

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.

We are too busy with ourselves.

The Power of Absence

Freedom that we are in desperate need of.

Karl Marx Muses Over the Kardashians & Instafame

There is a fine line between destruction as creative or nihilistic act—and it all comes down to the ideas behind it.

This is no time for uninformed moralistic incompetence.

Desire cannot be satisfied because it is defined in lack, but it can be recreated in fantasy.