“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” (Charles Darwin)

Das CultureLab des New Scientists ruft auf, dieses Darwin-Zitat in einem neuen Kunstwerk wiederzugeben – Musik, Gedicht, Malerei, Video, Prosa … Es gibt keine Beschränkungen: “The sky’s the limit”.

Der Wettbewerb geht bis zum 21. Dezember. Die besten Beiträge werden bei CultureLab vorgestellt und fünf Gewinner erhalten eine Sonderausgabe von Darwins “Origins”.

“It’s just a bad idea … Greil Marcus … made a glib aside about Marxist theorist Theodore Adorno and his exhiled-in-1940s-America memoir, Minima Moralia. With its bleaker-than-black humour and dismantling of modern life, Marcus said it would have made an excellent punk album. Why not take this pop wish and make it come true?“

Zu finden ist diese EP als Download bei UbuWeb, das Cover dazu ist bei Rhizome abgebildet.

Das Cover zu dem Klassiker von Walter Benjamin in dieser Reihe ist so schlicht wie eindrucksvoll:

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Marginal revolution: “The dead shark cost $12 million to buy but, of course, it didn’t cost nearly that much to make. So the production process isn’t eating up too many societal resources or causing too much damage to the environment. For the most part, it’s money passing back and forth from one set of hands to another, like a game — and, yes, the game is fun for those who have the money to play it. Don’t laugh, but we do in fact need some means of determining which of the rich people are the cool ones, and the art market surely serves that end.“

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