Clear Aesthetics: The Myth of Minimalism

Apocalypse now - zur Untergangsästhetik

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

02 ON AESTHETICS

Wir sind nicht primär aus Angst, Sorge und Tod gemacht.

The smooth space is a space without fixed perspective.

There is an *unsatisfied* reason in the experience of art.

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

Words to be looked at

But that’s art too, isn’t it? A relief, a shelter, a justification of everything we stand for.

Total transparency is only possible through total control—the latter only exists in a dictatorship.

It is universal capacity Primordial creativity.

Art exceeds the population of objects, acts, bodies, and events of reality, since it is composed by no more than the combination of parts of the real, and the possibilities of permutation border on the infinite.

It is necessary to actively assume a position to eradicate the superficiality and loss of ideals.

Der fortschrittliche Zeitpfeil biegt sich zu Kreisen und
so kehrt auch die These der Peak Art wieder.

Aber können wir es uns als Gesellschaft leisten, auf die Utopie zu verzichten?