„Your music is worthless.It achieves nothing.It serves no cultural purpose other than to fill up Spotify and YouTube web servers.Your art is not transcendent.All artists of this age are nothing but video game addicted losers.“[1] The initial quote by David […]
All quotations are taken from the book Telemorphosis There will soon be nothing more than self-communicating zombies, whose lone umbilical relay will be their own feedback image – electronic avatars of dead shadows who, beyond death and the river Styx,
Capitalism treats every registerable difference as a potential resource which can capitalizes or from which a surplus can be extracted. Capitalism targets always the ears because we are never not listening, and therefore listening is never unproductive to some extent.
Click & Glitch Mit Deleuze oder Boulez können wir vom Rhythmus im Sinne einer transversalen Disjunktion oder einer nicht-periodischen geklickten Musik sprechen. Wenn wir ein Stück hören, hören wir immer auch andere Dinge, die Deleuze als Kräfte, Dauer, Empfindung und
Author: Giorgio AgambenTranslated by: Vincenzo Binetti and Cesare CasarinoWith an Introduction by: Gerry Coulter Why does Baudrillard enjoy reading Agamben? One reason is that while there are few direct conceptual overlaps – there are many thematic ones – as each,
Translated by: Dr. Marilyn Lambert-Drache Note: This is the text of a paper given at the Light Onwords / Light Onwards: Living Literacies Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada (November 14-18, 2002). taken from here Foto: Stefan Paulus
Violence of the Virtual and Integral Reality
I started reading Félix Guattari in 1974. I was in a barracks in southern Italy, when military service was compulsory for young men of sound mind and body, but serving the country soon irritated me, and I was looking for
My argument is that Baudrillard continuously said that “everything is simulation (or virtual)” rather than saying that “there is more and more simulation (or virtuality)” because the diagnosis of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, and hyperreality in contemporary culture is not the
Baudrillard’s Importance for the Future
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
Global Debt and Parallel Universe
Für Baudrillard liegt die Würze des Denkens nicht so sehr in der allzu utopischen Übereinstimmung mit der Wahrheit, als vielmehr in den unermesslichen Abweichungen, die es von der Wahrheit trennen. Wir erreichen auch niemals, ganz im Gegensatz zu den Informationstechnologien,
Baudrillards radikales Denken – eine Paraphrase
Der Sozialpolitik geht es wie dem Politischen selbst. Man verabreicht sie den Massen in homöopathischen Dosen, verdünnt sie so weit, dass sie im Verhältnis zur Gesamtlösung verschwindend gering wird, bis sie schließlich verschwindet und nur noch eine Spur hinterlässt, die
Simulation von Sozialpolitik als Test zur Regulation ökonomischer Verwahrlosung
Baudrillard ties the instability of the system to the implosion, by which he implies that the system collapses in itself (and does not explode by a nuclear war, for example). It is in involution, that is, it abruptly collapses upon