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Martin Burckhardt

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Imagination Unleashed

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2025/06/03

Who comes up with something like that? (Carmela Soprano)It's been a good two years since we entered the world of AI-generated images, and during this time, tools like DALL-E and Leonardo.ai have become familiar companions in image production. And during this period, we’ve been exploring the artistic capabilities of our own Company Machine, the in-house metaphor machine we developed, which can translate texts and conversations into truly surprising images from scratch. This is why we were very

103:44

Im Gespräch mit ... Bernhard Krötz

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2025/06/01

Es passiert nicht allzu häufig, dass jemand, der eigentlich in der höheren Mathematik zuhause ist (und sich dort mit reellen sphärischen Räumen, Liu-Gruppen und Fragen der Spektralanalyse beschäftigt), sich in die Niederungen unseres Bildungssystems hinein verirrt, mehr noch, dass er den Schulunterricht darauf befragt, ob er das, was zu leisten er vorgibt, tatsächlich abliefert. Dass Bernhard Krötz sich diesem Exerzitium unterzogen hat, mag damit zu tun haben, dass ihn die Corona-Krise, als Vater

15:37

In the Labyrinth of Signs - I

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2025/05/28

The following text is part one of the second chapter from Martin’s second book, titled »Vom Geist der Maschine. Eine Geschichte kultureller Umbrüche«, published in 1999.Martin BurckhardtIn the Labyrinth of the Signs IThe Gods are from the Field of the Real(Jacques Lacan)Dazzled by the BlindingWhat is it like to look into the sun? To feel small sparks burning into your eyes, expanding into rings, into a glaring brightness mixed with blackness, shimmering red, the feeling of growing tension. Tears

66:51

Talking to ... Daniel Markovits

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2025/05/23

At a time when productivity theater, task masking, and sham production have become commonplace, it is clear that we’re facing a profound crisis of work, indeed, of everything considered valuable in our society. Therefore, it isn’t surprising that the principle of performance itself has come under criticism. This crisis has drawn our attention to Daniel Markovits, whose work explores whether the widely revered meritocracy is actually a trap. Consider that the term meritocracy was coined just over

87:19

Im Gespräch mit ... Jens Hacke

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2025/05/18

Vor einem guten halben Jahrhundert sind Hannah Arendts »Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft« erschienen – und auch wenn dieses Werk, als Resultat eines langen geistigen Winterschlafs, etwas in Vergessenheit geraten ist, bietet es doch die psychologisch präziseste Beschreibung dessen, was man als die totalitäre Versuchung der Moderne begreifen kann. Und wenn die Politikwissenschaftler den Totalitarismus allein unter dem Rubrum des totalen Staates verbucht haben, machen heutige, eher dezentral

86:42

Im Gespräch mit ... Philipp Sarasin

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2025/05/11

Wenn Foucault, der in den 70er Jahren noch als randständiger Intellektueller galt, unterdes zum meistzitierten Denker der Welt geworden ist, so ist dies umso merkwürdiger, als Foucault zu den großen Rätselgestalten der Philosophie gehört. Und weil man es zudem mit einem sonderbaren Formwandler zu tun hat, der eine Reihe von bemerkenswerten Selbstverwandlungen hingelegt hat, ist die Beschäftigung mit seinem Werk überaus lohnend – und Grund genug, sich mit Philipp Sarasin zu unterhalten, der im

48:55

Talking to ... Cam Caldwell

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2025/04/25

It may be that the world around us is transforming into a vast puzzle, even a Mystery Play. This situation also extends to our professional environment, prompting organizational sociologists to observe a particularly unsettling phenomenon: the silent exodus of the workforce, characterized by a state of inner resignation where employees merely do the minimum while their minds have long since disengaged from producing quality work. Now, Generation Z, a cohort that can no longer imagine a World without

37:05

Talking to ... Eliza Mondegreen

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2025/04/17

If identities in the Digital Utopia can be defined with the click of a mouse, it isn’t surprising when people want to make their lives as colorful as possible. After all: Who wants to be »a boring Normie?« as Eliza Mondegreen puts it in the simplest possible terms; consequently, those who wish to overcome their deep sense of emptiness proceed like computer gamers eager to endow their Avatars with superpowers. With this in mind, it’s easy to understand how the Trans debate (a marginal phenomenon only

70:05

Talking to ... Philip Pilkington

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2025/03/15

It's common knowledge that capitalism has been in a deep crisis of values since the financial crisis of 2007/2008, while the question of where it comes from and how it affects our existing institutions is much more complicated. Talking to Philip Pilkington about this is worthwhile if only because it combines the perspective of a sober observer looking back on a career in investment banking with the acumen of a macroeconomist who can counter his profession's intellectual aberrations based on

5:45

In the Ghost Town / In der Geisterstadt

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2025/03/10

Here is a short video that provides some illustrative footage for a documentary we have been planning about the carnival activities of Castiglion Fibocchi, a small town in southern Tuscany. Because the performance is based on a medieval event from the 11th century, its festival staging could be understood as the continuation of a local tradition. On the other hand, the fact that this tradition was in the world of avatars, a kind of cosplay in baroque robes—shows how the traditions of the past can be

52:47

Im Gespräch mit ... Burkhard Hofmann

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2025/02/16

Dass sich ein Psychotherapeut nicht mit den Befindlichkeitsstörungen seiner Landsleute herumschlagen muss, sondern, wie ein Anthropologe, sich um das Seelenleben eines fremden Kulturkreises kümmert, ist eine Seltenheit ersten Ranges – allen Ermahnungen zum Trotz, die sich um das Modewort des Eurozentrismus ranken. In diesem Sinn ist der Hamburger Psychotherapeut Burkhard Hofmann eine absolute Ausnahme, ist er doch der Einladung einer Bahreiner Patientin gefolgt – und hat daselbst, aber auch in

57:04

Talking to ... John Aziz

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2025/02/09

When the cognitive dissonances of our present-day made themselves felt in the aftermath of October 7th, the question of where and how the abysmal hatred leading to this pogrom originated has remained unanswered. This question drew our attention to John Aziz, a British-Palestinian journalist who passionately writes about the events in his father's homeland. His perspective is particularly interesting because he clearly sees the weight of this heritage as the dark shadow of a tragedy imposed on him,

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Im Gespräch mit ... Sama Maani

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2025/01/22

Schlägt man die Zeitung auf, drängt sich der Eindruck auf, dass die Zeiten durchaus einen Psychoanalytiker gebrauchen könnten, mehr noch: einen Denker, der sich den kognitiven Dissonanzen der Gegenwart gewachsen zeigt. Sama Maani, der lange Zeit als Psychiater und Psychoanalytiker in Wien gearbeitet hat, gehört zweifellos zu jener Gattung – umsomehr, als hier der Blick des Literaten hinzukommt, der sich den Absonderlichkeiten der Gegenwart mit ebenso großer Neugierde wie Furchtlosigkeit zu stellen

52:00

Talking to ... Mark Lilla

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2025/01/16

If there's a great mystery in the history of ideas, it lies in where the blind spots of thought are encountered. However, this raises the question of precisely what conditions lead to such blind thinking. When Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University whose work has delved deeply into the history of political theology, prefaces his book Ignorance and Bliss with the motto of an English Writer: »The faintest of all human passions is the love of truth,« he's highlighting the

125:55

Im Gespräch mit ... Aldo Haesler

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2025/01/04

Mag die klassische Ökonomie schnell zur Tagesordnung übergegangen sein, lässt sich das in den frühen 70er Jahren aufgekündigte Bretton Woods-Abkommen als Wendepunkt in der Geschichte des Kapitalismus begreifen. Seither nämlich ist das Kapital nicht mehr in den Kapitalen zuhause, sondern ist zum Spekulationsobjekt gesichtsloser Finanzmärkte geworden, zudem hat es sich von der Golddeckung gelöst und ist ins free floating eingetreten. Mag diese Revolution unterdessen der Vergessenheit anheimgefallen

57:36

Talking to ... Moriel Bareli

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2024/12/13

Because life is life-size, academic discourses, let alone grand worldviews, can only ever be approximations. Yet, direct observation and engagement with a specific situation raises the most complex and, at the same time, the most diverse questions. From this point of view, the experience the young Moriel Bareli recounts in his book When a Jew and a Muslim Talk is of such a dense and unusual nature. Yet his starting point was relatively simple: a young man growing up on Long Island, New York, who

52:13

Talking to ... Göran Adamson

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2024/12/06

Sometimes, political landscape changes occur very slowly, almost imperceptibly, and not infrequently; a social step backward is disguised as a seductively progressive formula. In this context, Göran Adamson is one of those rare specimens whose awareness of undesirable developments of this kind was sharpened early on – not least because he connected the rise of populist parties to the failure of the political elite. Or, more precisely: their entry into what Adamson calls nationalist masochism. The

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Im Gespräch mit ... Manfred Haferburg

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2024/11/29

Es gibt nicht viele Menschen, die davon berichten können, wie es ist, im Augenblick eines Blackouts für das Energiesystem eines Landes verantwortlich zu sein. Manfred Haferburg ist einer der wenigen, die auf ein solches Ereignis zurückschauen können. Denn zum Jahreswechsel 1978/79 war der junge Ingenieur als Schichtleiter zuständig für den Betrieb des größten Kernkraftwerks der DDR, Greifswald. Zwar absolvierte er diese Aufgabe mit Bravour, gleichwohl erwies sich der Staat ihm gegenüber als wenig

38:04

In Conversation with...Megan Gafford

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2024/11/23

The artist's becoming the preferred role model of modern Europe is a perfectly understandable process, as we can see in him the embodiment of the idea of individuality and, ultimately, human dignity. However, detaching ourselves from the aura—thus also from the promise associated with this figure—we see a strange, even dark question emerging. What if this promise can't be kept, and what if we’re now confronting the figure of the failed artist? This is a thought that the American philosopher Eric

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Talking to ... Catherine Liu

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2024/10/31

Imagining the Boomer world straying into suffocating moralism during the Pop Revolution would have seemed like a grotesque, if not outright ridiculous, mind game. Actually, it is a first-order puzzlement how such a terror of virtue could take hold of our political discourse and institutions. It is precisely this question that cultural theorist Catherine Liu addresses with the rise of the new ruling caste of the Professional Managerial Class—also known as the PMC. This caste is characterized by how

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