Tag: Body

Poetry and the impossibility of talking about highways

But Hitler built the Autobahn! I'm hearing this more and more often lately. It's difficult to continue this discussion because a certain argument, which I find very important, is quite complex and is rejected by people who want to relativize fascism and the Holocaust. The argument, inspired by Adorno, is: After Auschwitz, no more poems can be written. Roughly outlined, it goes like this: The extent of the horror of the Holocaust is so great that we, as individuals and as...

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Free will

In Western analytical-modern theories of consciousness, that is, those that consider themselves empirically scientific, a correlation between matter and consciousness is always assumed. This is relatively uncontroversial in itself, as virtually all frameworks proceed from this assumption. Birth and death mark the endpoints of this correlation. The question then arises: What does this correlation look like? Does consciousness determine matter, or does matter determine consciousness, or is it an interaction? 3 variants of the relation between consciousness and matter The first…

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Art beyond darkness - Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022/23

Why do we need a biennial? I have often asked myself this question. Before COVID-19, I visited many places with international cultural events. During lockdown, I co-organized an artist residency program to reflect on the impact, threats and opportunities of COVID-19 for cultural workers. Everything went differently than expected. Now everyone is trying to get back to normal. Have we thoughtlessly spent trillions of euros and dollars to maintain a system that desperately needs a change?

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