Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Sorry, there is no secret

    Sorry, there is no secret

    In the context of one of those Biennalen I am afraid it was due to obvious unpreparedness, that bitter polemics lead to more than subversion: at best aggressive self-sabotage?

  • WHERE OUR LANGUAGE MAKES US GUESSING…

    WHERE OUR LANGUAGE MAKES US GUESSING…

    WHERE OUR LANGUAGE MAKES US GUESSING SOMEBODY SITTING ON A BENCH IN THE RAIN, AND WHERE THERE IS NO SITTING ON A BENCH IN THE RAIN, THERE,WE WANT TO SAY, BE A GHOST.

  • Nobody wants her for free, therefore she has to sell herself

    Nobody wants her for free, therefore she has to sell herself

    So the most urgent thing is the awakening of this fundamental disagreement, to make the body construct feel like a place of struggle, as a compromise as well as a work.

  • A Bridge is a Window, not for Those who Build It

    A Bridge is a Window, not for Those who Build It

    EFFECT / CARE / GENERATION / CONFIDENCE / LIGHTNESS / HOPE / EQUIVALENCE / COMPASSION / FEAR / CRISIS / DROP / WORK / MÜHSAM / MEUTEREI / HUMAN / RETIREMENT / BREAKTHROUGH.

  • Instruction For Happiness

    Instruction For Happiness

    The weakness of our Instruction: it (she) seems to remain a (just) project but let her: come to an end by being completed. Call it a site. Complete site: elaboration of a practice, an exercise.

  • Berg Berg (Loch)

    Berg Berg (Loch)

    Besser auf ein Loch zu spekulieren, als in es zu fallen! Ich setze auf die Konzentration unserer Praxis auf die Stelle der Begegnung unter einer möglichst diversen Zahl von Anderen. Ich sehe keine Alternative zum elaborierten Versuch eines (andauernden aber nicht allzu geduldigen) Weckrufs, zum intensivierten Befragen unserer Begriffe und Verständnisse vom WERT. Was immer…

  • Shrink!

    Shrink!

    In the beginning there was confusion there was a continuous present and later there was romanticism which was not a confusion but an extrication and now there is either succeeding or failing there must be distribution and equilibration there must be time that is distributed and equilibrated.

  • time doesn`t work for me any longer

    time doesn`t work for me any longer

    It was important to me that these texts are always related to reality: not just that they relate to it, but that they work in it; that they are a piece in the dramaturgy of the real, that they constitute the instrument…

  • Back to the Land of Birth

    Back to the Land of Birth

    The place of exile, which is language that is scripture, will probably also derive from the material in which every symbolic formulation manifests itself. Or.: A poem! In the style of an ancestor. Reading Aimè Cèsaire’s “Back to the Land of Birth” should be the starting point for an installation appropriate to the occasion and…

  • Schönheit Is a Verb

    Schönheit Is a Verb

    In the face of this “eternal writing and ignorance of how to assess, place, or even use this writing,” he addressed the author and lyric poet Michael Hammerschmid with the question, “How do I recognize a poem?”

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