THE FLASHING SHOW (a work stuck in process v.04)

THE FLASHING SHOW (a work stuck in process v.04)

THE FLASHING SHOW
(a work stuck in process)

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"For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with the additional capacity for a political existence; modern man is an animal whose politics places his existence as a living being in question."
Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality.

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"But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. ( …) It is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
Aristotle, Poetics.

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"A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both."
Jewish Proverb.

"The Flashing Show" is a ’pièce de résistance’ against nudity censorship (Politics); i.e., „The Flashing Show" is a ’pièce de résistance’ in favor of a boundless freedom (Art). But since „The Flashing Show" acknowledges the imperialism of Design over Art and Politics (being neither against nor in favor of it …) , then „The Flashing Show" is a resigned, a-political, non-artistic, neutral and almost meaningless ’pièce de résistance’ about contemporary Ethics and Aesth(Ethics).