Johannes Grenzfurthner
Johannes Grenzfurthner is a director, writer, artist and curator.He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally-acting art and theory group. He is founder of movie production ...Show More
In a media-based society (and of course there is no such thing as a non-media-based society consisti Show more
In a media-based society (and of course there is no such thing as a non-media-based society consisting of more than one person) it is the signs and significants, the meanings and habits and conventions of speaking and thinking, the images and stereotypes which control everything. It is important to analyze how it is represented and of course what is not represented or how it lacks representation. It's not so much Rupert Murdoch - whose assholeness I will not dispute - that we should attack, but rather something I would call the cultural grammar of the public space. Power is formed within such a grammar. Access and non-access to each and every thing is regulated in its realm. Meanings are negotiated there. Hide
I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.
I think that Man in creating God somewhat overestimated his abilities.
Imagination is an abuse of power.
Imagination is an abuse of power.
The human is a narrative being. We construct emotional machines, so-called "stories", to communicate Show more
The human is a narrative being. We construct emotional machines, so-called "stories", to communicate, to share the world in which we live and make it collectively experienceable. And we are pretty good at doing that. Since the primordial soup at some point mendelized into primate brains, we have either been fleeing from big cats or telling others about our escapes from the clutches of big cats. Sitting around the campfire, interpreting and breaking down the world, charging it with aura. Initially this was all very mythopoeic, and slowly it became more differentiated. But even in the post-Enlightenment age, world interpretations are not necessarily particularly rational. Good stories sell well, and the best stories are the ones that hit you in the gut, regardless of whether they would hold up to a Wikipedia check or not. Hide
I blame society for Zack Snyder's career.
I blame society for Zack Snyder's career.
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