Situated Speculations

Haven’t We Always Been Precarious?

Towards a New Art Criticism From Latin America

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

Dance-Mania

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.

Stratigraphische Bilder. Neue Ästhetiken der Montage?

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

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.

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

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.

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

Je sais, mais quand même

Wie prägen die technischen Interfaces unseren Blick?

The cybernetic dream of Norbert Wiener is nearly coming true.

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?

Autonomy and Negation in Theodor W. Adorno

Contemporary Aesthetic Experience

Precarious body/images

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.