In the humanities and social sciences, European modernity is traditionally defined as a movement of acceleration. In the context of discourses around ›AI‹, this thesis is intensified, since something like an ›exponential‹ or ›excessive‹ temporality can be discerned here: The succession of groundbreaking innovations tends to overtake the logical structure of their reflexive interpretation.
The lecture explores meta-theoretical conclusions for the operational speed of artistic research contexts. In addition to concepts of the French philosopher Paul Virilio, theses from a book by the sociologist Emanuel Deutschmann, which has not yet been published (The Exponential Society. From the End of Growth to the Stabilization of the World, Suhrkamp 2025), will be relevant.
Benjamin Sprick was born in Hamburg in 1980, where he studied cello, philosophy and music theory. In 2020, he completed his doctorate at the University of Fine Arts (HfBK) with a thesis on Gilles Deleuze and the aesthetics of music. He currently teaches applied philosophy and aesthetics as well as cello at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater (HfMT). His research focuses on a »Critique of Instrumental Reason« as well as the entangled relationships between art, citizenship, and economics.
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