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Rhythm & Civilization: Fashion, Death and Other Trends of Capitalist Romanticism

Faced with the beginning of this saga into which we are about to plunge, we find ourselves within something very similar to the mystical atmosphere of solipsistic subjectivities that become visible through the compositions of Edward Hopper’s pictorial universe. In this situation, only one thing could emerge as a metamorphic spark, a particle, to shake the compass of our (dis)attentions. To this thing, here, we shall give the name Gesture. Let us be more creative and specific by imagining an encounter between two strangers, a man and a woman. In this encounter, the trigger for the metamorphic spark is, let us say, her gesture — the gesture of an Other. The gesture here, in elective affinity with the theorist Vilém Flusser’s view on the subject, has the function of materialized freedom.

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14.10.2026 | by Allende Renck