Luhmann vs. Art
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A profession
Work: “Nietzsche”Technique: Oil over dispersionYear: 2009Artist: Albert Lascaux “A profession is the backbone of life.” Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human, Volume I, “The […]
The Facade of the University of the Arts, Berlin
“It is not about remembrance.It is about the awareness of a danger that one has been aware of ever since one became aware of it.Since […]
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Pied Piper of Hamelin (German Legends, Volume I, 1816, No. 244 – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) In the year 1284 after the birth of […]
When Uranium Runs Short — Small Reactors, Big Risks
The widely advertised “renaissance” of nuclear power focuses on a new narrative: Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). These compact reactor systems are promoted as safer, cheaper, […]
On the Problems of a Gold-Backed (BRICS) Cryptocurrency
The idea sounds simple:“A digital currency backed by real gold. As tamper-proof as Bitcoin, as stable in value as gold.”In practice, this dream fails on […]
Berlin, Chapter 3 – “Drawing”
“Drawing is the root of everything.”— Van Gogh The reason why these drawings matter here is not that I want to present Helmut Schmidt or […]
„I would find a way“
If I could start againA million miles awayI would keep myselfI would find a way Johnny Cash and “The Landsberg Barbarians” […]
Dr Markus Krall
Dr Markus Krall@Markus_KrallAugust 13 Why should the so-called “creators of culture” receive any tax money at all?I don’t care which side they’re on.They should prove […]
Of the Flies of the Marketplace
Of the Flies of the Marketplace Thus Spoke Zarathustra Flee, my friend, into your solitude!I see you dazed by the noise of the great men […]
SPD party congress
Work detailsTitle: Prometheus ComicsMedium: Ink on torchon paperYear: 2021 Cultural Ban for Members of the SPD 1After more than 20 years of state-sponsored terror, financial […]
The Vaccine Manufacturer Johnson & Johnson and the Baby Powder
Title: “L’Artiste (after Picasso)”Medium: Ballpoint pen on paperYear: ca. 1993 Johnson & Johnson Services Inc., a publicly traded US-based multinational corporation, was for several decades […]
Star Wars: Fascism for Dummies
With Season 2 of Andor, Star Wars Rediscovers Its Political Core – And It Hurts Again Andor Season 2 is here—and it reminds us of […]
A Plea Against Conscription
And for a Voluntary, Highly Professional, Well-Paid, and Respected Professional Army Freedom vs. “Duty” – A Fundamental Contradiction The debate over a return to […]
Corrupt Russian Imperialism
Is this art, or can it go? As an outsider and “artist” (philosophy and painting at the art university in the capital), I’d like to […]
They muddy the water
, to make it seem deep. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Strawberries
An image composed of plants, light, and structure.At its center: the strawberry plant — embedded in proliferating grass, interwoven with blades and stems, accompanied by […]
Selensky’s dilemma: The Russians play “chess”, the Americans play “poker”
The dilemma of Europe and Ukraine: The Russians are playing “chess” and the Americans are playing “poker” Europe and Ukraine are facing a grotesque dilemma. […]
Todenhöfer
Jürgen Todenhöfer @J_Todenhoefer Trump’s shameless theft of Ukraine’s most valuable raw materials is an old US strategy. Only no one has ever done it as […]
Wagenknecht promotes gas imports from Russia
Wagenknecht and Mohamed Ali BSW leadership promotes gas imports from Russia Status: 10.01.2025 10:36 am The BSW has once again called for a change of […]
The muse for sale
O my muse, child of the palaces! Will you, when winter hastens the ravens? Have a fire for your bare foot On a dreary snowy […]
The “pacifist” Wagenknecht and the really bad “uncontrolled immigration”
The victory of #Trump in the #USA shows what loss of prosperity & fear of decline, growing inequality, high inflation & uncontrolled migration mean […]
To the Capo Carsten Linnemann
CDU wants to abolish citizens’ income and cut social welfare: “Where will they live then?” According to Linnemann, people would “already go to work” if […]
Sunflowers
An exhibition of van Gogh’s paintings is always an event in history,not in the history of painted objects,but in the history of history itself. For […]
Fortune telling
You can tell me what you want here, yes? But I don’t believe in fortune-telling. Like this. What I mean is that I don’t […]
Alena Buyx and the vaccination obligation
For me, the statements that Ms. Buyx made publicly in October 2021 during the media dissing of the soccer player Kimmich in front of an […]
Art as a necromancer
In addition, art performs the task of preserving, even of slightly re-coloring ideas that have probably died out and faded; when it solves this task, […]
A heart for Björn Höcke
Personally, for professional reasons, I have written myself a kind of life experience rulebook, i.e. a collection of (aphoristic) life advice – addressed directly to […]
The instincts of German art connoisseurs
Jan Fleischhauer @janfleischhauer I’ve always wondered why Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes are shown without any warnings. The longer I look at his paintings, the more […]
When victory is a long time coming
When the battle has actually begun and victory is a long time coming, then men’s weapons become blunt and their zeal is dampened. When you […]
Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer
The princess and villa owner from the Saarland Wagenknecht puts us all here just quite subtly and thereby nicely and harmlessly smiling Putin’s ATOMIC BOMBS […]
“100% secure real estate funds in Germany’s ‘boom regions’…”
After my studies in Berlin, I often had to deal with an East German advertising agency (especially because I am friends with the boss) and […]
Series and films 2024
01. Lincoln Lawyer 3 02. Black Doves 03. Landman 04. Skeleton Crew 05. The Agency 06. Wolfs 07. Bad Monkey 08. Professor T 4 09. […]
Emil Nolde
At the Emil Nolde Museum Emil Nolde, who spent a lot of his time painting almost daily sunsets or his own garden rather badly […]
When the man comes around…
Johnny Cash When the man comes around… Lyrics “And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunderOne of the four beasts saying,‘Come and […]
Degas
“A picture must be made with the same feeling with which a criminal carries out his deed.” – Edgar Degas (1834 – 1917)
Sunflowers
Albert Lascaux ‚SUNFLOWERS‘ Painting 2009 Oil over Emulsion Paint on Canvas Just painter, van Gogh, and nothing more, no philosophy, no mysticism, no rite, […]
Russia, the USA and the European Meta-History
The French Revolution of 1789 – probably the most momentous historical event on the European continent – was certainly not lacking in values, and I […]
Blackout danger / cooling of nuclear power plants / EMP
Preliminary remark: This is NOT another contribution to the “political” debate on the extension of the operating lives of nuclear power plants, which is currently […]
The Wannsee Conference
Spin.de – Forum Politics – The Wannsee Conference – ‘German Painting’ Would someone ask me, so on the eve of the ‘Third World […]
Smoke candles – The debate about Germany’s nuclear phase-out in 2022
Or rather: The debate about the nuclear phase-out is the wrong discussion at the wrong time 1.) This is a Wikipedia map of the […]