Week 06/2026:
DESIRE DWELLS.
Post-iPod-Music.
“This instrument rearticulates the energy of global protest into a luminous and sonic gesture.”
Desire dwells.
“Sensory cortex lesion triggers compensatory neuronal plasticity.”
A tinge of classist horror.
As I open the package, a beagle made of porcelain comes tumbling out.
„Why Prayer Is Dangerous to Your Mental Health.“
Depression might be the most reasonable response to the crap we are going through as a species…
THE VEINY DEVILS.
“Achieve your goals faster with Premium.“
As slowly as possible.
“Anxiety is hollow inside and nothing surrounds it.”
They then stand for hours with their legs apart in the tundra, and others who see such a comrade gather in small groups behind them and wait for them to need to urinate.
“Obvi’, obvi’, they be tryna copy.”
They drink their urine and then also benefit from it.
“A formatting issue led an earlier version to be awarded one star, when the reviewer’s intention was zero.”
A lot of head honchos and pooas and mucky mucks.
“I’m the shit.”
The pretentious and utterly vacuous wasteland of Trump, AI, sales figures, and world rankings.
Week 05/2026:
THE TRANSMUTATION NOTEBOOKS.
“This is a metapragmatic prop.”
Twelve months later, there is no reason to assume that the interpretation of current events that this short text offers is inaccurate: https://non-milleplateaux.de/on-techfascism/
“The creative pursuit of a greater self.”
Just stick something outrageous into every camera and microphone on every topic and at any time of the day or night as ragebait that’ll definitely help.
“The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe.”
In the 1980s, I had little hope for the future of our planet and its manifold cultures and societies. Now, in the 2020s, I still have very little hope for either.
“An alteration of the relation to the world.”
Twin Peaks is pure comfort television.
NATURAL WINE INSTEAD OF NAZIS.
“Do you learn these monologues at themain character school?”
The American deportation agency ICE has been classified as a terrorist organisation.
“Veneers, Inlays, Bleaching.”
I Stopped Using ChatGPT Since it Was Presented to the Public. What Happened to My Brain Was Terrifying.
“Occasionally, it might have been pleasing and joyful.”
Why ban kids from social media when the huge for-profit organizations, political parties, and major corporations that make social media toxic, harmful, and pervasively destructive are allowed to remain? Don’t worry, we all know. ? ? ?
Consumer confidence collapsed under fascism.
“Occasionally…”
Week 04/2026:
FROM THE REPORTING AREAS.
“It exists, it is genuine, and it is in complete accordance with what we have in our books.”
I’m 55. Forgetting is something that people my age and older often complain about. I don’t. In fact, I increasingly enjoy the experience of forgetting. When I’m eager to finish an urgent task, when I go over to a family member, friend, or colleague, or when I get up to look for an object in another room and realize: I go blank. I completely forgot what I intended to do. Rather than panicking and hating myself, frantically trying to rediscover the supposedly crucial intention somewhere, it seems much more fruitful to marvel at these unexpected minutes of togetherness with reduced intention and simply enjoy them. Instances of calm and relaxation. Time measures of presence.
“Do trees […] display a sensitivity to being, an ability to express their will, a goal-directedness, which we might consider sentient? […] We can’t describe or rationally prove other minds in the mud, other ‘desires’ to live or to continue to be, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t there.” (Tamás, Strangers, 2023, p. 43)
People who used to learn tango are now fermenting from morning till night.
“A deduction technique involving mind-body coordination operating hand in hand with the deepest level of intuition.” (David Lynch, Twin Peaks, S01E3, 1990, 23:00.
“Because something is not likely, that doesn’t render it impossible or foolish.” (Tamás, Strangers, 2023, p. 88)
Rejoice, dance, and sing: Meta is closing the metaverse.
“En virkelig dum model.”
THE CONCEPT OF THE FRAMEWORK OF A POSSIBILITY OF A SHADOW OF A RICOCHET OF AN ECHO.
“Did the self-indulgent toddler king exhibit his obnoxious verbal diarrhea again?”
My sincerest wish: to live in a world without urgency.
“An ineffectual data dump.”
The good thing about thoroughly trivial sound art exhibitions is that they don’t offer any kind of ideas or inspiration, so one is granted the pleasure of leaving the venue again pretty quickly.
“The sleep-inducing monotony of dumb critical pretentiousness.”
There is a high likelihood that human civilization will come to an end in the 2050s.
“1,236 tons of gold.”
“Are you dead?”
CORRUPTION AND GRIFT.
“What a voice! What devilishly clever melodies!’
Week 03/2026:
METAPHYSICAL ANARCHY.
“Who takes care of the poem?” (Kara Keeling)
Within just a few quarters, society’s general assessment and acceptance of so-called AI has rapidly declined from futuristic, beneficial, and elitist to repulsive, exploitative, and vulgar (cf. Régis Debray, Effet Jogging). This descent will continue.
“I decline the position.”
I saw Winona Ryder twice in the last few days: last Thursday in Jim Jarmusch’s NIGHT ON EARTH (1991) and the following Friday in A$AP Rocky’s PUNK ROCKY (2026).
“Sushi, Roti, Reibekuchen.”
Being dead is an even dumber and substantially more meaningless mode of existence than being alive.
Schulze, H. (2026), “Sonic Epistemologies”, in: Logos, vol. 36 (2026), no. 1, 167-196.
“Langeweile ist ein Pulverfass:
Am Ende wirst Du Fan von Irgendwas”
A volatile extraterrestrial life form that daydreams, continually refines their sensitivity, nurtures a deep desire for music and art, reads poetry while eating oysters, and transforms into a forest spirit or a deep-sea monster at night.
Percept. Kunst: cultural capital. Salat.
“The Doritos Theory of Music” (Nate Sloan & Charlie Harding)
Their overstuffed suitcases burden them more than they realize.
“Come on everybody, let’s do nothing!”
In The Year of 2025
(as always: in alphabetical order;
January 4, 2026)
Words Of The Year
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Westwärts 1&2 / Frank Xerox’ wüster Traum / Erzählungen 1959-1966
Victoria Chang
Obit / With my Back to the World
Oswald Egger
Herde der Rede / Farbkompartimente
Philippe Jaccottet
Ce peu de bruits / Pensées sous les nuages / Clarté Notre-Dame
Hiromi Kawakami
Record of a Night Too Brief
Sounds Of The Year
Aesop Rock
The Impossible Kid / Integrated Tech Solutions / Black Hole Superette / I Heard It’s A Mess There Too
Haiyti
kings sagen king / Oubliette, Vol.1
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Gush
Tortoise
A Lazarus Taxon / Touch
Wet Leg
Moisturizer
Graphic Novels / Moving Images Of The Year
Kate Beaton
DUCKS
Alison Bechdel
SPENT
Charlie Covell, Georgi Banks-Davies & Runyararo Mapfumo
KAOS
Sam Crane & Pinny Grylls
GRAND THEFT HAMLET
Vince Gilligan
PLURIBUS
Performances / Installations Of The Year
Kevin Ernste, Christoph Bull, Randall Harlow & Andrew Blackburn
Aulos
Ragnhild May & Stefan Maier
Bellows
Aline Motta
Water is a Time Machine
Alexander Tillegreen
Intertwinings (anatomies meet)
Marion Wörle & Maciej ?ledziecki
House of North
Thoughts Of The Year
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni
Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis
Kate Eichhorn
Content
Anna Kornbluh
Immediacy, or: The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, Krista Muratore & Gina Stinnett
Against AI
Xiaowei Wang
Blockchain Chicken Farm