The Hegemony of the Vision Machine

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

Stimme und Verfremdung am Theater

Repetition is not different to the pathos of a “creative destruction”.

The precarious and the immune are no longer only in a relation of opposites in post-Fordist societies, but rather more and more also in a relation of overlapping, tending, in fact, to become indistinguishable.

Under post-Fordist conditions, the capitalisation of the immaterial work has managed to be integrated into artistic labour.

The cybernetic dream of Norbert Wiener is nearly coming true.

Situated Speculations

Shimmery Skin Entangled It Grows

Doch die Friedhofsruhe, die jetzt andächtig um Kiefers Werk verbreitet wird, ist aus dem gleichen Stoff, wie die hysterischen Abgrenzungsversuche, weil beides dem Werk äußerlich bleibt und aus deutschen Projektionen besteht.

Le Désir attrapé par la queue

The current crisis of democracy is the conjunction of a state of affairs that cannot and doesn’t want to change.

Die Welt zu Gast im Teutoburger Wald

Androids, cyborgs, and avatars are new territories beyond the body’s biological condition. However, these territories ought to be also a discursive extension, where new identities, categories, and values can coexist.

Governmental Precarization

Der Teutoburger Wald enthält auch die Selbstverklärung zum edlen, wilden Germanen und lädt darin zur Selbstexotisierung ein.

Dance-Mania

The power of a cultural production resides not in its ability to immediately modify the present, but in its capacity to influence the future.

Distanzierung, ihr Ergebnis, legt nicht nur den objektiven Charakter des Kunstwerks frei.

Autonomy and Negation in Theodor W. Adorno