An electronic billboard in Times Square displays the American public debt, an astronomic figure of some thousands of billions of dollars which increases at a rate of $20,000 a second. Another electronic billboard at the Beaubourg Center in Paris displays …
If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as ‚after the orgy‘ . The orgy in question was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere. Political …
Note: This article originally appeared in French in Liberation, November 18, 2005. Something in all men profoundly rejoices in seeing a car burn.1 Fifteen hundred cars burned on a single night and then, nine hundred, five hundred, two hundred, before …
…fashion has the fabulous character of the more beautiful than beautiful: fascinating. The seduction it exerts is independent of all value judgment… The astonishing privilege accorded to fashion is due to a unanimous and definitive resolve. The acceleration of the …
What is there beyond the end? Beyond the end extends virtual reality, the horizon of a programmed reality in which all our functions—memory, emotions, sexuality, intelligence— become progressively useless. Beyond the end, in the era of the trans-political, the transsexual, …
Ecstasy of the social: The masses. More social than the social.
Videos, interactive screens, multimedia, the Internet, Virtual Reality: interactivity threatens us on all sides. What was once separated is everywhere merged. Distance is everywhere abolished: between the sexes, between opposite poles, between the stage and the auditorium, between the protagonists …
Videos, interactive screens, multimedia, the Internet, Virtual Reality: interactivity threatens us on all sides. What was once separated is everywhere merged. Distance is everywhere abolished: between the sexes, between opposite poles, between the stage and the auditorium, between the protagonists …
Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact /’The Mental Diaspora of the Networks‘
[Marxism] convinces men that they are alienated by the sale of their labor power, thus censoring the much more radical hypothesis that they might be alienated as labor power. Mirror of Production(1) Foto: Bernhard Weber
The human species is doubtless the only one to have invented a specific mode of disappearance that has nothing to do with Nature’s law. pdf here Foto: Bernhard Weber
What is there beyond the end? Beyond the end extends virtual reality, the horizon of a programmed reality in which all our functions—memory, emotions, sexuality, intelligence— become progressively useless. Beyond the end, in the era of the trans-political, the transsexual, …
Ecstasy of the social: The masses. More social than the social.
The adventure of modern art is over. Contemporary art is contemporary only with itself. It no longer knows any transcendence either towards past or future; its only reality is that of its operation in real time and its confusion with …
„So verschafft uns eine Reihe von Unglücksfällen oder Mißerfolgen auf eine rästelhafte Weise Erleichterung. Ein Unfall, das ist negativ. Zwei davon , das ist ambivalent. Drei oder vier hintereinander, das ist erhebend. Diese Hartnäckigkeit des Geschicks gefällt uns, sie beweist, …