online: 17 june 2021
modified: 17 june 2021

29 april 2021 describing ourselves to ourselves


Joseph Beuys talks in a lecture in England and Ireland and the other celtic traditions of the general machine culture . . . what we need is 'a new anthropology for man' . . . i am surprised he says man and not woman . . .

a new anthropology (for women and men). . . yes that sounds what we might all attempt . . . we would need new words and change concepts for describing ourselves to ourselves . . . what we are looking for is an abstraction of the human part of nature . . . also called paranature . . .

we are coming to the turning point at which we need a new culture . . .

here it comes . . .

here is an attempt: c o u r i e r s *

* couriers appeared in: Annetta Pedretti and the participants, Problems of actors and actions, vol. 2, Princelet editions, London and Zurich, pages 199-206.



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