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Bücher und Buch-Herausgaben:

L. Hovestadt, V. Bühlmann, D. Alvarez-Marin, M. Roman, S. Michael:
"A Quantum City: Mastering the Generic";
Birkhäuser, Wien, 2015, ISBN: 3035606269; 824 S.



Kurzfassung deutsch:
MASTERING THE GENERIC

We are all migrants
native to the universe.

This is a stage play, a narrative
about us on the planet.
About how we relate to each other
and to the Great Masters among us.
Welcome to The City.

Your views are wide open and bright.
Cities are powerful and challenging.
The heights are lofty
the abysses are deep.

Take a seat!

Here´s the setting:
A planet.
The generic city.
And 100% urbanism.
Raise the curtain!

Everything is connected.
Everything imparts everything.
The self and the other.
Good and evil.
Adland perfection to bad news provocation.
The burning pain of aching souls versus the purity of nature.
Catastrophe and salvation circling each other forever in their merry-go-round.
A Venetian Carnival:
Masks, murder, love, perfidy and beauty.

What should I do,
if I am capable of anything
but have no idea what to do?

A Quantum City invites you to tap into the wealth of indexes belonging to our world. You get introduced to Orlando, a person with no noteworthy qualities, nor any particular properties: an unwritten book. And it´s because of this that Orlando is singled out by the gods. He sets sail from Crete towards Athens in 320 BCE, hoping to find evidence of perfection. Throughout the book you follow him on his Odyssey through Western civilisation; though Orlando never quite ends up where she intended to go. And yet, by the time she arrives in the New York of the 1960s, all the decisions that have been made must be called hers. Orlando´s adventure is to challenge the collective origin of intellectual nature. In doing so, Orlando becomes neither an authoritarian functionary, nor a restless activist, nor a comfortable member of a bourgeoisie, but a citizen of the digital age, a Quantum Citizen.

Kurzfassung englisch:
MASTERING THE GENERIC

We are all migrants
native to the universe.

This is a stage play, a narrative
about us on the planet.
About how we relate to each other
and to the Great Masters among us.
Welcome to The City.

Your views are wide open and bright.
Cities are powerful and challenging.
The heights are lofty
the abysses are deep.

Take a seat!

Here´s the setting:
A planet.
The generic city.
And 100% urbanism.
Raise the curtain!

Everything is connected.
Everything imparts everything.
The self and the other.
Good and evil.
Adland perfection to bad news provocation.
The burning pain of aching souls versus the purity of nature.
Catastrophe and salvation circling each other forever in their merry-go-round.
A Venetian Carnival:
Masks, murder, love, perfidy and beauty.

What should I do,
if I am capable of anything
but have no idea what to do?

A Quantum City invites you to tap into the wealth of indexes belonging to our world. You get introduced to Orlando, a person with no noteworthy qualities, nor any particular properties: an unwritten book. And it´s because of this that Orlando is singled out by the gods. He sets sail from Crete towards Athens in 320 BCE, hoping to find evidence of perfection. Throughout the book you follow him on his Odyssey through Western civilisation; though Orlando never quite ends up where she intended to go. And yet, by the time she arrives in the New York of the 1960s, all the decisions that have been made must be called hers. Orlando´s adventure is to challenge the collective origin of intellectual nature. In doing so, Orlando becomes neither an authoritarian functionary, nor a restless activist, nor a comfortable member of a bourgeoisie, but a citizen of the digital age, a Quantum Citizen.


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http://www.attp.tuwien.ac.at/a-quantum-city


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