Abstract

Everything different. Everything new. Change, change, change: where is the world racing towards? Until modern times, mankind has spent a lot of energy on ensuring that as little as possible changes. In modern times, however, change is both a virtue and a burden. Virtue, because the world is seen as malleable and change thus becomes the main task; burden, because some things change all by themselves and sometimes differently than our efforts intend. This coursebook is not another plea to 'change yourself/the world/everything' or to 'resist/resist'. Rather, it discusses the strange experience that the world is more resistant than the change-makers would like it to be and that it is nevertheless changing faster and faster. With essays by Michael Lind, Birger Priddat, Stefan Rammler, Irmhild Saake, Hans Hütt, Alfred Hackensberger and others, and an art section by Olaf Unverzart.

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