ENTKUNSTUNG I Preface

Entkunstung als Formel kritischer Kunst

If life were completely rational

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”.

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Philosophies and theories come, as always, post festum.

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

ENTKUNSTUNG I Editor's Note

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

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.

ENTKUNSTUNG III Preface

Material Matters: On Transparency in Art and Politics

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

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