LEDA BOURGOGNE | FRAGILE | PW | REVIEW

LEDA BOURGOGNE | FRAGILE | PW | REVIEW

In David Cronenberg’s film Crimes of the Future, the plot unfolds in a hypothetical setting where humans no longer feel physical pain. Instead, they grow new, unknown organs that are then surgically removed. In this scenario, the body gets opened up in order to show, …

ANGHARAD WILLIAMS | KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALLEN | PASSE-AVANT | REVIEW

ANGHARAD WILLIAMS | KUNSTVEREIN FÜR DIE RHEINLANDE UND WESTFALLEN | PASSE-AVANT | REVIEW

In her 2014 article Sex and Wheels for the Guardian, Zadie Smith revisits at J.G. Ballard’s novel Crash. Following on the writer’s perception of his work as the “first pornographic novel about technology”, Smith reflects on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s statement that language is better understood through its use, and not …