Archive - kurios & käuflich

The Collective Gaze Vector of the Authentic Self

Today it is perfectly normal to find ourselves spending time and money to visit a museum for taking photos of a famous painting, instead of simply…

Mar 2, 2024 •

April 2023

The Next Modernity

We need to acknowledge BOTH that motivating narratives are just fictions AND that fictions can still be powerfully motivating and useful. “All Models…

Apr 2, 2023 •

December 2022

The Trickster Machine

5000 years after the first hieroglyphs were carved in stone, today we are looking at a new master of persuasive rhetoric which is very likely to disrupt…

Dec 10, 2022 •

October 2022

Selling Skins for the World Around Us

Reality is being aestheticised. When aesthetics is interpreted as a surface, the make-up, the image, the realm of simulacra, then we could make the…

Oct 11, 2022 •

April 2022

Reality in the Age of Digital Reproduction

"Much like water, gas, and electricity come to serve us in our appartments, from a far remote place, by barely noticeable movements of our hands, we…

Apr 1, 2022 •

January 2022

Consuming Your Self

We seem to care a lot about reality, but then again, do we really? Don’t we care a lot more about the qualities we are last likely to find in actual…

Jan 8, 2022 •

November 2021

Local Luck, Literally

Thinking of trend deck season and everything else going on just now, how much of an advantage is biological intelligence, really?

Nov 12, 2021 •

July 2021

In Recharted Waters

When taking another picture of a popular site, we are not really consuming the site’s aesthetic resources but primarily our own identity, the picture…

Jul 8, 2021 •

March 2021

Das Ding mit dem Zufall und die analoge Renaissance

In der automatisierten Zukunft, in einer zunehmend algorithmisch optimierten Umwelt, werden Zufälle immer unwahrscheinlicher und damit als Erfahrung von…

Mar 26, 2021 •

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