All That Is Solid Melts Into Information

As we navigate the digital age, the tangible world seemingly dissolves into data. 'All That Is Solid Melts Into Information' explores this transformation, delving into the profound implications it holds for our understanding of reality and our place within it.

The torrent of accelerated time without narrative is disorienting our society and fragmenting community

The inwardly turned, narcissistic ego with purely subjective access to the world is not the cause of social disintegration but the result of a fateful process at the objective level

• Another reason for the crisis of community is digitalization
• Digital communication redirects the flows of communication
• Information is spread without forming a public sphere
• Social media intensify this kind of communication without community

Philosophy today lacks the transformational quality it once had

It is no longer capable of producing a novel narrative.

• How can we reverse this development and make sure that philosophy regains its world-changing power, its magic?
• Art, as opposed to philosophy, is still in a position where it can evoke the glimmer of a new form of life. It is possible that art is nearer to the heart of creation than philosophy and is therefore capable of letting something entirely new begin.

Today, we no longer have any narratives that provide meaning and orientation for our lives

Narratives crumble and decay into information

• There is nothing but information without any hermeneutic horizon for interpretation, without any method of explanation
• The narrative vacuum in an information society makes people feel discontent, especially in times of crisis
• Conspiracy theories are taken up as offers for assuming an identity

Rituals are in time as things are in space

Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself

• They stabilize life by structuring time
• Temporal spaces we can enter in celebration do not pass away
• Culture founds community
• The only way in which we can revitalize community is through ritual forms

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