„Utopia as a disposition carries the heavy burden of the past and the even heavier burden of the future.“ Robert Musil counters with his „sense of potentiality“, „the as yet unborn potential realities“, „a thread that one pulls through the water without knowing whether any bait is attached to the end“. This lightness of being is as indispensible to life as it is seductive.
How much weight then can art and literatur carry? How real is their sense of potentiality 100 years after Kakania? How acute is their knowledge about [or simply: how aware are they of] their dependence on media and their institutional frameworks? Can they conserve and renew their ability to differentiate? What happens to the possibilities of playfulness in human narratives when the virtual realities of technological media define the sense of potentiality?
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die tageszeitung, 15. Februar 2009 – Debatte
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Eduard Beaucamp
Art Critic and Author
Selbstdarsteller und Massenkultur – Die moderne Kunst am Ende ihrer Epoche
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Peter Weibel
Künstler, Kurator, Medientheoretiker
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Philosoph, Strasbourg
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