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Transcription of a talk for an exhibition “Monstrous: a collective refusal to be small” organised by “Roter Keil” “Everything is transgender. Everybody transgender. That is all you hear about and that is why we won the election in record numbers.” (Donald Trump) What Trump involuntarily points out is the generic transsexuality. The transsexual is not something that…
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The sexual body has now been assigned a kind of artificial fate. This fate is transsexuality – ‘transsexual’ not in any anatomical sense, but rather in the more general sense of transvestitism, of playing with the commutability of the signs of sex – and of playing, in contrast to the former manner of playing on…
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The Americans dream big. The biggest hamburgers. The biggest hot dogs. To the moon and Mars. The football Super Bowl and the baseball World Series. The biggest celebrities. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna. They were big. They were the stars. They were the celebrities in the age of mass media. They were separated…
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Wenn die ökonomische Determinante in der Simulation das Spekulations- oder Finanzkapital ist, das selbst nicht darstellbar ist, dann ist diese unerbittliche Körperlichkeit weniger ein Hinausgehen über das Politische als das strukturelle Ambiente eines gewaltsamen Systems, das in somatische Begriffe gefasst wird: Das Subjekt wird zum Genital des Kapitals, das seiner Zirkulation unterworfen ist, so dass…
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taken from the book: In the Delirium of Simulation. Baudrillard revisited Rex Butler places Baudrillard’s concepts of simulation and seduction in a close context. (Butler, 1999: 71ff.) To understand seduction as a doubling of simulation would mean that, due to its vagueness, it can never be seen as such, but can only ever be represented…
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Die Amerikaner träumen groß. Die größten Hamburger. Die größten Hot Dogs. Zum Mond und Mars. Der Football Super Bowl und die Baseball World Series. Die größten Prominenten. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna. Sie waren groß. Sie waren die Stars. Das waren die Prominente im Zeitalter der Massenmedien. Sie waren von uns durch die…
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In “Lyotard zur Einführung” (in JUNIUS), Walter Reese-Schäfer is obviously not able to do much with the LÖ. Nevertheless, it becomes clear that “the crisis of dissolution” of a socialist group (19) was certainly an occasion for writing the LO, but that at its core it is about something fundamentally existential: about despair (18 and…
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Entêtement Ein Mann ist gestorben, der zugleich daran festhielt, dass es in der Politik keine Freundschaft gibt, die etwas wert ist, wie dass sein ganzes Leben reine Politik war, Militanz in allen erdenklichen Dimensionen – ein Mann, der logischerweise keine Freunde hatte. Sein Name war Antonio Negri. Und da Sterben in einem solchen Fall bedeutet,…
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I want to start by explaining a few general things about my work. I was trained as a critical sociologist. I have a very critical view of society from a moral perspective. I am critical of capitalism and of contemporary social relations. I am critical of media, technologies, and consumer culture. I originally moved from…
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Decadent art is the flower of late civilizations, the sign of the end lies within its apocalyptic beauty which offers only the most morbid and beautiful enrichments, an excess of sensual cruelty that annihilates self and other in a languid tempest of enervating desires. – Brian Stableford, Glorious Perversity Interviewer: Take me through the thought…