transverse [electronic resource].

Hatje Cantz 2012

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In this text I will try to understand some of the intentions of dOCUMENTA (13) according to my particular point of view, which is based on the belief that the current agony of capitalism will be a deadly trap for human evolution unless we adapt our culture and lifestyle to exhaustion, the dominant trend of our time. I will also try to understand how some of the works presented and assembled by dOCUMENTA (13) express propositions for emancipation and autonomy through withdrawal, exodus, and a proliferation of morphogenetic processes of recombination. I am writing and acting in Europe, where the modern utopia of infinite growth has come to an end, and a process of irreversible decline is unfolding. The dissolution of the last great political project of modern times, the European Union, is approaching, and this process can be seen as a failure and a catastrophe, but also as the condition for the imagination of a new Europe—based on social solidarity and no longer on competition. From my (European) point of view, the collapse and rebirth of the European project may be seen as the beginning of a new process of autonomy based on frugality rather than accumulation, on friendship rather than rivalry…
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Sam Frank
Astrid Wege
Leftloft
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