Season 43: Eternal Return — Crisis of the Future

Maybe we did (for a while?) lost in the labyrinth of consumerism and exchange. Perhaps the only apparent vestige of all the struggles for a better society is the nihilism and cynicism of those who have already definitively seen the possibilities of the future. Perhaps it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of this timelessness (capitalism). But maybe all this is just an impulse to search for a lost future in the past. Maybe this is an opportunity to return the theme to a generation! Boris Buden sees in the disintegration of the Western welfare state in the 1970s not only a moral problem, but in particular the problem of the breakdown of meaning. When solidarity fades, the binders between people disappear. When the binders disappear, there is nothing to construct a common sense against the background. Thus, the empty space is taken by things in the place of people, and the people themselves are immortalized in the products of their own economic strategies. Economics as the only logic of everything. A war of all against all! So is it not time to try to restore the meaning of society after the cleansing therapy of the eternally ironic postmodernity, is it not time to move on? Isn't it time to demand a future instead of growth again? So we know: the meaning is permanent diplomacy, permanent negotiation, which does not end with the deification of the mindlessness that gives way to an unregulated market, but in negotiation as a search for a common direction. The state or our company is not a company. The state is dialogue! And if we desire a state to be faithful to, we must crave dialogue seeking future direction. Let our season be a heavily negotiated direction that will provoke further negotiations. Let it be understood not only as a polemic with the supposed end of history, but also as a questioning of what the tasks of future art are and what the future us are to be. The struggle for perception begins. Come with us to the past for the future. Come with us to find what's missing!