If life were completely rational

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

01 ENTKUNSTUNG

We hope you can see this book as we do: as an extension of memory; interpretations of our time that aspire to reinvent the world anew, “as a whole to be imagined”.

ENTKUNSTUNG III Preface

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

ENTKUNSTUNG II Editors' Note

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

Books are portraits of their time; they are like mirrors, reflecting how we see and perceive ourselves.

Art After The End Of Art

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.

Art and aesthetics are a kind of problematic equation, perhaps a forgotten or even interrupted relationship that has to be reconsidered over and over again.

ENTKUNSTUNG II Preface