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18.11.2008

Eurozine Review

The malady of infinite aspiration

"Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava.

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Authors

Boris Groys

(b.19 March 1947 in (East) Berlin) studied at the University of Leningrad. Emigrated to the Federal Republic of Germany from the USSR in December 1981. He is now Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Hochschule für Gestaltung ("School for Design"), Karlsruhe, Germany. Since 1991 Member of the Association International des Critiques d'Art (AICA). Numerous publications. He has written and edited numerous books, including Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin (Munich, 1988) and Unter Verdacht. Eine Phänomenologie der Medien (Munich, 2000).