Modernity remains unfinished - The restauration of the myth
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The term "new" The promise of a future
(on
functional and legitimation concepts)
Modernity remains unfinished
- The restauration of the myth
The Prignitz is a sparsely populated and unappreciated area. Former GDR territory, a mixture of large-scale agricultures and untouched nature but where progress and integration into the FRG meant only migration and impoverishment for the people. An area where no one wants to live anymore, where the villages are abandoned because the youngsters want - and have to - flee into bigger cities.
What remains
For a long time now, the concepts which we have to understand the world are no longer credible for me. Everything that surrounds me is fundamentally conveyed to me through a dualistic view: the world is good or evil, it is day or night, something is new or old. This binary thinking excludes everything that is possible in between.
So somehow everything
even contradicts itself.
One such contradictory concept stands out in
particular: the concept of the new. What exactly do we mean when we talk about
"new"??
5.1.a
Living in a crisis of imagination
Some thoughts on the power of image:
It is not the idea or theory of a concept that is
losing its credibility, it is that the structures and mechanisms are becoming
more and more visible that are trying with all their might to impose this idea
and theory as the only true and correct one.
The
interests of power put themselves like a second skin over the attempts to
explain the world. The attempt of explanation turns out to be a tool of
legitimation.
The
category "new" is an instrument of progress rather than a property of matter.
And more important: I do not see the separation between function and aesthetics
any more in my small, daily observations...
listen
here Dr. Manuel Clemens on Schiller and the
the aesthetic education of man
c A short history of reason in the age of delusionn
Even the game with fear is not new. When new is not new, only a state of a variation.