On a possible triangulation of some present political positions

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Critical Inquiry Winter, 4, pp. 1-14, 2018

Abstract

In Reset Modernity!, the Karlsruhe exhibition we just opened at ZKM, visitors are requested to follow a series of specific procedures to reset the instruments that allow them to find their way in this highly complex question: where is Modernity heading and how can we orient ourselves through its metamorphosis? An excellent way, it seems to me, to consider the theme of this year's lecture series, Zukunftswissen. Visitors are handled a precious little booklet that we call a “fieldbook” because they are invited, really, to play an active role in surveying the quickly transforming landscape. At the end of each procedure, a cryptic message is provided about a somewhat mysterious triangle. The curators seem to be arguing that once this triangle has been understood, things will become really much clearer. It is this claim which I would like to comment on by developing a bit what this triangle could mean and how it has been drawn.

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traduction en Russe translation in Russian gefter.ru

traduction en allemand German translation
« TRIANGULIERUNG EIN VERSUCH, POLITISCHE POSITIONEN DER GEGENWART TOPOLOGISCH ZU DENKEN »
in “Werkstätten der Zukunft“ (Laboratories of the Future)
translated by Klaus Scherpe 2018pp. 26-42;