Summary:
This book examines the symptoms of the "absolute present" in the fields of politics, work, economics, pop culture, and contemporary art, revealing the inherent fractures and cracks of the present beyond familiar patterns of critique, in order to arrive at new forms of articulation and behavior. The present appears to many contemporaries as a rapid and relationship-less standstill, from which both the past and the future have been lost. This present is deemed "absolute" not only because substantial changes within it seem increasingly unimaginable, but primarily because it reveals itself as indifference and timelessness.

Authors: Quent, Marcus; Quent, Marcus (Ed.); Petzold, Hannes-Caspar (Trans.).