When We Cease to Understand the World Francis Alÿs geboren 1977

geboren 1977

Although the term “experimental music” may now have be understood as referring to a genre

the very same oxygen we use to light up a cigarette

dann mit Sicherheit nicht dort

Where and how is it grounded

When We Cease to Understand the World Francis Alÿs geboren 1977A favourite book of Lucrecia Dalt, selected for our 2020 Rewind. In his literary exploration When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamn Labatut writes about the fine line between genius and insanity and about the ambivalence of scientific discoveries in four chapters that are as sensuous as they are bizarre. The text portrays the life of scientists Fritz Haber, Werner Heisenberg, Alexander Grothendieck and Erwin Schrdinger as that of daredevil