Leicht wie Nebel / Schwer wie Blei / Musik ergibt sich / Strömt wie Gas / Eine Lichtung / Schweres Gepäck / Einstand im Jenseits / Der Tod hat sieben Katzen / Weltkulturerbe Rausch / Endlich UnendlichWolfgang Voigt (2018) Das Ich denke, Ich bin, ist, seit Cartesius, der Grundirrtum in aller Erkenntnis; das Denken ist… Continue reading we no longer understand nature
Tag: speculative realism
speculative realism
For theorists, the 2007 conference on speculative realism at Goldsmiths College in London is like the first Nirvana concerts in Belgium and the Netherlands. Afterward, everyone was there or wanted to be there. The conference brought together several thinkers with more in common than in difference: criticism of the prevailing continental philosophy. Four philosophers stood… Continue reading speculative realism
what is sci-fi?
How do you define science fiction? That is the question that has occupied Steven Shaviro for decades. Now that he is approaching sixty, he still has no answer. That is precisely as it should be, writes Shaviro: science fiction has no clear boundaries, which is good. Science fiction is an important genre, he emphasizes. For… Continue reading what is sci-fi?
utopia as practice
future thinking as a tranquilizer in an accelerating world “Bist du bereit für eine kleine Utopie?”, Blumfeld in ‘Wir Sind Frei’ “I miss the future”, Jaron Lanier The 1977 album ‘Trans Europa Express’ by the German band Kraftwerk is peculiar. Although the arrangements, the use of synthesizers, and layers of noise are very modern, the overall feel… Continue reading utopia as practice