Yesterday, after many years, I finally went to the village center of Roubion. Vilém Flusser lived here for many years. I quoted his books a lot in my seminars and used them as a basis for discussion. Especially his philosophy of photography. Flusser is a wild theorist. He has written a lot about images, media, language, technology, signs, history... It seems to me that [...]
Unser Gehirn ist nicht der Sitz unseres Geistes, sondern das Medium, mit dem wir das Geistige erreichen können. Als ich das zum ersten Mal vor vielen Jahren auf einer Konferenz für Medientheorie gehört habe, war ich erstaunt. Meinten die das wirklich ernst? Ist das verrückt oder genial? Es gibt dieses wunderschöne altmodische Wort des ‚Feinstofflichen‘. […]
Ich hatte immer Bauchschmerzen mit einer atomistischen Weltanschauung. Wir lernen in der Schule, dass die kleinsten Bauteile des Universums Atome seien. Nun ist die Physik weiter, wir sprechen von Protonen, Elektronen, Positronen, Quarks und Strings etc. … Im Kern bleibt die Idee aber dieselbe: Die Welt sei aus kleinsten Teilen von Materie zusammengesetzt. Dies ist […]
It is definitely time to rethink. What our fathers and grandfathers called progress is destroying our planet. Science is not an end in itself, not everything that is technically feasible is good, not everything that is fun and satisfies our senses is useful. Now we keep hearing from many sides that we should focus on the small steps ahead [...].
When the Internet became accessible to the public, i.e. in the mid-1990s, there was a phenomenon of people putting their deepest secrets online. The anonymity, simplicity and speed were seductive. Confessions were quickly made, anonymity was largely preserved and perhaps there was even that little thrill that maybe someone you knew [...]
I grew up in the country where cars were invented. The roads and cars here seem safe, or at least everything is done to make them safe. The accident is anticipated, the risk is calculated, possible collisions are calculated and the damage is minimized by modular design, so they say. We want to be prepared for everything, here. [...]