Material Matters: On Transparency in Art and Politics

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

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

The Edited Body for a Particular Purpose

This is no time for uninformed moralistic incompetence.

Raping the Reader: Politics as Disturbance

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

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?

Contemporary art’s vast roster includes Alicja Kwade who is doing good in becoming a part of today’s avant-garde pretending Bürger was wrong.

Reguetón Theory

Aber können wir es uns als Gesellschaft leisten, auf die Utopie zu verzichten?

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

Weaving the Multi-Layered Web of (Digital) Power

Zur Ästhetik des Normalen in der Mode

Not paying interns may sound like a bagatelle but it can also be interpreted as a symptom of an ill profession.

A Natural Art Without Nature: Scherabon’s Singular Existences

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.

Revealing Reflections

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

Friction