Neu-Mithraeum
De-Growth
Decoupling might be an abstract way to go, but the pace at which consumerism and ordinary living impacts the environment will always be faster in impact than any abstract monetary planning to keep the financial bodies alive.
In the end of the day, the real decoupling will be financial wealth versus the unsaved planet.
Gruppe Messel
Going round in arts …
The arts market highly represents our ideas of a democracy and liberal democracies. The average artist usually strives enormously to find a place in this market and does not want to stand completely outside of its mechanisms of selection, to find himself/herself just making arts in a social space with no general interest to society […]
The question behind how that market for “society’s sense of aesthetics and imperative meaningfulness” really functions > on the level of “supply and demand” is not seriously discussed in the public sphere in terms of > markets and how they generate values and the how’s of consumerism of cultural goods.
With all that said, the masters of contemporary arts are basically something like “Volkskünstler”. They represent society in a one-to-one relation and reciprocity.
The structures that artists and their consumer-recipients simultaneously ostentatively claim to oppose: In reality one feeds on mechanisms of hierarchies, arbitrariness and materialism-as-instrumentalization.
And all that simply for the gain of having some shared aesthetical values, distinguishably cemented into society’s culture, by the people’s willingness to sacrifice their own authenticity.
The arbitrariness of the relation between the > value of arts > and the > values which translate into material “possession”, leaves the factual without any meaning.
Art is politics. Art makes up basic politics. But that does not mean that art necessarily has to be a superior magical driver of that what we commonly understand as political. It just means that the expression within arts and how one operates with these, as works of art, happens within and is part of the sphere of socially political components. Aesthetics can never be a detached field or one that categorically has to be beyond reproach.
Society does want to spare arts from serious critique, but in the end of the day at the same time they seek to use art as a credible tool and instrument of “making ‘our/their’ society better”. A highly contradictive act.
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rev 12.01.25
So viel Zersetzung und Zerstörung “at random”, dass es sich kaum lohnen soll, für Dinge einzustehen. Taten allseitig, die Sinn im Kern zerstören wollen, epistemische Kriege auf der Impulsebene, usw. usf. Generierter Sinnentleerung das sinnvolle Chaos stets gegenüberstellen.
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Tanta descomposición y destrucción “al azar” que apenas vale la pena defender las realidades. Actos por todos lados que quieren destruir el sentido en su núcleo, guerras epistémicas a nivel de impulsos, etc. Contrasta siempre el generó vacio de sentido con el caos de sentido.
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So much disintegration and destruction “at random” that it must hardly be worth standing up for things. Acts on all sides that want to destroy meaning at its core, epistemic wars at the impulse level, etc. Always contrast the generated depletion of meaning with sensible chaos.
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Tant de désintégration et de destruction “au hasard” que cela ne doit pas valoir la peine de défendre les choses. Des actes de toutes parts qui veulent détruire le sens à la base, des guerres épistémiques au niveau des impulsions, etc. etc. Il faut toujours opposer l’épuisement du sens généré avec le chaos sensible.
Sensationalismus, der darin begründet ist, dass man selbstversichernd behauptend vorgeben mag man habe nie gemerkt, mit welchen Methoden Menschen anderen [durch deren destruktives Handeln Betroffenen] ihre Rechte streitig machen.
Die radikale Trennung von Zerstörung unter Menschen, die verschwörerische Unsichtbarmachung von bestimmten Zerstörungsritualen, und dem Gegenüber, sowie gleichermaßen damit einhergehend und sich verschränkend, der philosophische Glaube, der sich ausdrückt in einer kategorischen Negierung der Zerstörbarkeit des nichtmenschlichen Raums, mit dem Narrativ des repetitierbaren austauschbaren Lebens und Lebenszykluses.
Die sensationalistische Empörung steht sich anders artikulierenden Formen der Empörung entgegen.
Verblendender Sensationalismus, Gruppe Messel
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