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

(De)generative Art: Rules-transgressing Algorithms

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.

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.

Die Stimme dient also nicht nur der Sprachvermittlung, sondern auch als Zeichen des anwesenden Körpers.

Contemporary Aesthetic Experience

Precarious body/images

Je sais, mais quand même

The Hegemony of the Vision Machine

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

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

Aesthetics: And Smooth and Striated Space, 572-82.

How can we break the ahistoric informatic screens in the laboratories and camps of this world that take away the eyes and parts of the bodies today as we‘re governed by opaque oceans of data?

Algorithms still lack notions of ethics and excess, without which transgression is not possible.

Peter Sloterdijk thinking of Theodor W. Adorno’s birthday

Instead of accepting speculative endeavours as reflections of the present in the future, enabling diffractive viewpoints within the world can help us engage into a deeper analysis of how speculations can actually come to be.

Die Welt zu Gast im Teutoburger Wald

One of the tasks of art criticism is 
to make evident the discursive qualities of artistic creation.

To Much Future/To Much Time

The fetish for glow, the iridescence, and shimmer growing over our bodies like a skin made of light, cannot be detached by references to enhancement, the almost untouchable, the undying dream of artificial.