… human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.*

der Mensch
Verträgt nicht sehr viel Wirklichkeit. **

* T.S. Eliot: Burnt Norton (Four Quartets)
**Übersetzt von Norbert Hummelt. In: Schreibheft 66.

Aesthetics  is an individual religion. (Thomas Raab: Nachbrenner). It is a religion of individuals, and it has individual forms. The common denominator of these forms is questionable. The answers depend on the point of view. From the point of view of gouvernementality: aesthetics is compensating and therefore stabilizing the idea of a free individual, which is a necessary function in today’s economy.
From the point of view of realometer: aesthetics is a line of flight which leads to radical changes
From the point of view of D.: aesthetics is a chance to become a pontifex maximus.
From the point of view of J.: aesthetics  is an invitation to subversion.
From the point of view of M.:vaesthetics is approaching the absolute.

I see a mossy lake in your lungs giving bearth to some bony birds flying out of Sweden while some of us sitting at the edge of Zürich with hair like firs of Black Forest. I decided to join but forgot the breath of my brain somewhere near Ferrette, France, walking along a stony cross in the silver sky. A jungle man below me, sruby fog, is gobbled up by unpainted paintings: with the frequency of his bones we could build a palace for the elks.