Porno mit Adorno

Based on Adorno's "Minima Moralia. Reflections from Damaged Life", "Porno mit Adorno" is an attempt to look at our present - filled with passions and affects. 

"Porno mit Adorno" is a news studio, zooms in on economic and technological overformations, and reports on the culture industry, on the delusion, on increasing populism, and on reified nature. The news themselves become products of the commodity world, which like undead threshold creatures have detached themselves from all purposefulness and want only one thing: to resonate. 

The news about damaged life affirms hyper-pop as the revolt of space and time, wrapping Adorno and Critical Theory, the actual sad science, in the technological veil: the news texts are further developments of Adorno's aphorisms and essays, created in collaboration with GPT-3 based artificial intelligences.  

"Porno mit Adorno" surrenders to the excess of affirmation and moves to the sound of No. Where there was a fantasy of redemption, let it become a zombie that sings: let me die. 

→ Letter to the theater from Faber (german)

photo: Philip Frowein