The Taste of Participation

The Avant-garde and the Novel

Where else would one feel ecstasies and raptures if not in and with one’s own body?

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

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?

The Edited Body for a Particular Purpose

From Uncanny Valley with Love

Blade Runner 2049

The digital stucco becomes part of the process of the “emancipation of the sign”.

Censorship limits seeing, thus, it limits knowledge.

Wieder einmal ist der Schiffbruch zur zentralen Metapher für einen politischen Umbruch und gleichzeitig zur grausamen Realität geworden.

Something with aesthetic qualities means something that hast the power to seduce.

Weaving the Multi-Layered Web of (Digital) Power

The Power of Absence

Schiffbruch mit Drohne

Étant donnés

This is no time for uninformed moralistic incompetence.

Individuals, unlike market bonds or particles, are tied by values, expectations, beliefs, cosmologies and references that define their identity.

Politics means breaking with consistency; it means breaking with what is known and already visible.

Towards a New Political Paradigm in Times of Social Amnesia