Tamás Seregi Matter is a non-ideal abstraction. Materiality is an abstraction, in that it never exists in itself; it must be subtracted from the concrete, and is always already interlaced with the forms, meanings and relations that have been imposed on it. In other words, it is inseparable from these…

Márió Z. Nemes Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981) is the most significant “palaeo-painter” of the modern era. Although this phrase comes across surprising at first glance, it fits perfectly the project of modernity which synthesises science and art, since in this case, painting becomes a visual tool of natural scientific (palaeontological) reconstruction…

Dan Jack Harvey Bataille’s influence on Tom McCarthy’s first novel, Remainder, is already evident from its title. Alongside its comical portrayal of a man’s pathological descent into relentless consumerism using money that has quite literally fallen from the sky, the novel acts as a parable that, rather than deconstructing contemporary…

Zsolt Miklósvölgyi — Márió Z. Nemes “[T]he universe is something like a spider or spit.” (Georges Bataille) For centuries, Western civilization has put a lot of effort into establishing its own essence as spirit, logos and/or meaning in opposition to materiality. The (post)modern notion of culture still preserves the memory…

T+U Manifesto by Márió Z. Nemes In post-culture we are not waiting for the apocalypse as it already happened a long time ago. There was no nuclear holocaust or any other festive moments: we live in cycles of rivalling doomsdays. In our present situation, there is no need for any…

András Heszky Through the process of fossilisation and through the replacement of biological structures with minerals, we have a pretty precise idea of how some creatures might have looked 200 million years ago. Fossils, whether full skeletons or partial bone structures, allow us to imagine the lost world of the…

Bálint Urbán Denver, the last dinosaur he’s my friend and a whole lot more Denver, the last dinosaur shows me a world I never saw before everywhere we go we don’t really care if people stop and stare at our pal dino creating history thru the rock n’ roll spotlight …

Imre Bartók Dinosaur skeletons are the barely legible hieroglyphics of cultural ressentiment. We immediately suspect that this Hegelian concept has turned into its opposite. When Hegel cynically criticised phrenology in The Phenomenology of Spirit with the line ‘the spirit is a bone’ (“der Geist ist ein Knochen”) , he failed…