Texte zur Kunst #137 2025 - Death Drive and Sublimation digital culture we are experiencing the age

we are experiencing the age of chronic uncertainty

making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely

“It’s been said that the best way to predict the future is to create it

Ayham Ghraowi

It accompanies the solo exhibition Boris Mikhailov: The Space Between Us at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2019/20

Texte zur Kunst #137 2025 - Death Drive and Sublimation digital culture we are experiencing the ageThe escalation of ecological, military, and capitalist destruction has dominated current developments in many places. This issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST puts forward two psychanalytical concepts that lend themselves to describing destructive tendencies, as well as to possible ways of redirecting aggression away from violence and into creative work: the death drive and sublimation. Contributions subject these concepts to a discursive stress test and set