Towards a New Art Criticism From Latin America

In Walter Benjamin’s understanding, the use of allegory is
typical of Baroque Art: Man acknowledges his guilty passion for this world in the moment of its decay.

Autonomy and Negation in Theodor W. Adorno

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

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.

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.

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.

Peter Sloterdijk thinking of Theodor W. Adorno’s birthday

(De)generative Art: Rules-transgressing Algorithms

Art is aperture of the world.

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

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.

Die Währung des Wortes

Governmental Precarization

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.

The smooth space is a space without fixed perspective.

Shimmery Skin Entangled It Grows

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