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Vorwort zum Endspiel
PREFACE TO ENDGAME

Author(s): Helmut Kohlenberger
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: capitalism as religion (following W . Benjamin);art replacing religion;world seen as virtuality

Summary/Abstract: The article tries to see the modern world, the takeover by “capitalism” as aglobal technoeconomicalsystem endingthe European Middle Ages,tryingto re-pro-duce human existence as an “imitation game”(imitating nature).Instead of the rhythm of day and night and genealogical sequence in all traditional cul-turesEuropean world was in the beginning build up by monastic perseverance in waiting for the coming of eternal life.An underlyingfundamentally escha-tological unrestsurvivedin mystical sectarian movementssubsequentlystruc-turedaccordingly totechnologically minded revolutions ending up inan un-precedented power and influenceof scientificresearch. The imagination of an art world which no longer depended on religious symbolism butproduced imaginativeselfrealization of the artist himself-subsequently followedthe Zero Point emergence of mathematico-scientificexperience (see for ex.Male-witch 1915 in the wake of Lenin 1917).As a result of this utopian selfrepro-duction the human existenceis drawn into virtuality–reproduced in political correctness,in social controlling of genealogy from cradleto gravefollowingeconomicinterests and programs.All this is advertised as the ultimate realiza-tion of freedom ina totally unprecedented social(computerized) art game –totally independent from all too well known “ideological”approaches.

  • Issue Year: 36/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-76
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: German