Director: Marco Ferreri „If I were asked to characterize the present state of affairs, I would describe it as ‘after the orgy’. The orgy in question was the moment when modernity exploded upon us, the moment of liberation in every sphere. Political liberation, sexual liberation, liberation of the forces of production, liberation of the forces …
David Cronenberg and Jean Baudrillard: the Simulacrum of eXistenZ (1999)
I’ve always felt that technology is us. Technology are us. In the 1950s, all the sci-fi stories were about how dehumanizing technology was and how soul-destroying. But in fact, it’s an extension of us. I’m talking to you on the phone, the phone is an extension of my ear and my voice, to that extension …
Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung Exhibition (2021)
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light. Mephistopheles, from Faust. Wolfgang Voigt is back with a most complex and powerful work, cementing his status as one of the most captivating contemporary artists, not just in the field of electronic music, but as conceptional …
American Psycho (2000): A Visionary and Criminally Underestimated Work on Hyperreality & Trump
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE (opening lines of American Psycho) Every time when somebody mentions the obnoxious Matrix films and babbles something about “taking the red pill“, I fantasize that Patrick Bateman comes along, presses play on “Sussudio“, and then does what he does best. The Matrix films are works of science fiction …