“I’m telling you, the time has come,” said the speaker. “And don’t say I’m using this just to get attention.” The audience burst into laughter and cheered. The man before them was a renowned revolutionary thinker, but he didn’t seem like one at that moment–he seemed tired and worn out by life. “No! You can …
If reality is too boring or painful for you, why not delve into the digital for a while? Immerse into carefully constructed yet still glitchy worlds of your choice. Become the hero of your own destiny again and again. Visit all those places you wanted to see, even watch the earth from afar. It will …
We are limbs, fat, skin, bones, spots and hair. The body has many secrets. It’s a discomfort (Dysmorphysis) that comes with body functions and things, that we constantly try to cover up. We feel disconnected to our own bodies, our physical being. We see ourselves only distorted, dysmorphed in faults and details. What would someone else …
“The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say …
In this neverending stream of consciousness, of millionizing selfies and endless communication anyone and anything becomes a particle, a pixel, screaming for attention. It makes me want to hide. No faces, no colours, no identity. Safety in anonymity. But how can you achieve invisibility in this very visible world? In these days you have to …
“Es gibt kein richtiges Leben im falschen.” – Theodor W. Adorno Mit dem Ausruf »Show you are not afraid, go shopping!« forderte der New Yorker Bürgermeister Rudolph W. Giuliani einen Tag nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 die Bevölkerung von NYC auf, Konsum als politischen Protestakt und Form der Re-etablierung von „Normalität“ zu verstehen. …
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