This is the manifest tragedy of culture because (almost?) everything which is admired for valid reasons, was or is also used by various authoritarian, or even fascist, regimes: as legitimation, as alleged proof of cultural permanence, as pomp or as … Weiterlesen
The straight, predefined and normed ways do not offer any hope; they only convey a false sense of security. In fact, emergency exits always exist in societal dynamics this side of one-dimensional worlds of ideas and orientation. These emergency exits, … Weiterlesen
All of us will certainly have experienced situations in which, for various reasons, we think we are going to lose our mind. Here, Lessing conveys in a very wise way that this is neither embarrassing nor pathological because sometimes there … Weiterlesen
A physical impossibility, a literarily apt wonderful formulation. And that’s exactly how Friederike Mayröcker though and wrote, one of the best poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Another plausible reason to question knowledge because all knowledge is only ever presumption and, throughout history, has time and again turned out to be obsolete.
One immediately believes the self-confident seriousness of this artist, who died very young. To go beyond one’s own knowledge may drive all committed people. But the possibility of transcending knowledge beyond all efforts and educational processes is hardly imaginable – … Weiterlesen
Similar to DADA, the Situationist International also assumed that the world which is said to be real only offers irrationality and that what is considered true in this world is nonsense. However, this still implies the possibility of truth. In … Weiterlesen
What more can one add. Typically laconic short sentences by Gertrude Stein, undisguised written into the world. And she is so right. The equally banal and ideological statement that money alone does not make one happy may be true if … Weiterlesen
This quote relates to the fact that this incredibly innovative engineer, designer, architect and thinker used to talk and write about the Spacecraft Earth, thus quite rightly conceiving the Earth as a closed system, which must be considered as … Weiterlesen
Although already formulated in the 18th century, this insight remains virulent to this day. The writer, translator, politically engaged and clever salonnière must have known it. As is well known, all women of the time were denied access to libraries, … Weiterlesen
