Vorwort zum Endspiel

• Main Author: Helmut Kohlenberger
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University 2015-03-01
• Series: The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
• Subjects: capitalism as religion (following w. benjamin); art replacing religion; world seen as virtuality
• Online Access: https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/documents/138618288/138854209/eik_36_5.pdf/0021cc11-9640-4bfc-9231-1911d2550bca
• ISSN: 2544-8242; 2544-8242

The article tries to see the modern world, the takeover by “capitalism” as a global technoeconomical system ending the European Middle Ages, trying to re-produce human existence as an “imitation game” (imitating nature). Instead of the rhythm of day and night and genealogical sequence in all traditional cultures European world was in the beginning build up by monastic perseverance in waiting for the coming of eternal life. An underlying fundamentally eschatological unrest survived in mystical sectarian movements subsequently structured accordingly to technologically minded revolutions ending up in an unprecedented power and influence of scientific research. The imagination of an art world which no longer depended on religious symbolism but produced imaginative selfrealization of the artist himself-subsequently followed the Zero Point emergence of mathematico-scientific experience (see for ex. Malewitch 1915 in the wake of Lenin 1917). As a result of this utopian selfreproduction the human existence is drawn into virtuality – reproduced in political correctness, in social controlling of genealogy from cradle to grave following economic interests and programs. All this is advertised as the ultimate realization of freedom in a totally unprecedented social (computerized) art game – totally independent from all too well known “ideological” approaches.