The Domestication of Being by Peter Sloterdijk
Here, the concept of objective spirit turns into the principle of information. This steps between thoughts and things as a third value, between the pole of reflection and the pole of the thing, between spirit and matter. Intelligent machines -like all artifices that are culturally created- eventually also compel thought to recognize on a broader […]
Posthumanism: Sloterdijk and the problem of political synthesis
☛ La Maison Française, New York University: Robert Silvers, New York City, early 1980s, from the exhibition “Dominique Nabokov: The World of the New York Review of Books”, Friday, November 1st – Friday, December 6th, 2013. Catalogue: PDF. Press release: PDF. For more details about the photo, see the end of this post. • • […]
‘Le Havre’ by Aki Kaurismakï, 2011
☛ Janus Films: Le Havre by Aki Kaurismakï, France/Finland, 2011 (official Press Kit: PDF). Official one-sheet poster for the American release of the film, designed and illustrated by Italian artist Manuele Fior. See a larger version (1944 x 2880). The poster is available for sell over at The Criterion Collection. For more information about it […]
Kafka’s Aphorisms: Believing in progress
Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. That is not the sort of belief that indicates real faith. ☛ The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka, translated by Geoffrey Brocks and Michael Hofmann, New York: Schocken Books, §48 (Random House, Google books, Amazon). This aphorism was […]
