And No End Philosophy, Pop and Politics

The lecture is about the connection between philosophy, popular culture and politics. The trinity matters. For the generation born after the Second World War, this is evident not only on the level of subjective and cultural experience, but matters also on the level of philosophical thought itself. Hence, the relation between these three spheres is a multi-layered relation of coexistence, conflict and cooperation. The thought of Theodor W. Adorno offers a surprising and fitting example for this. The intertwined relationship between philosophy, pop and politics also returns when the question comes up: "how is it possible to change things?" An adequate answer, again, requires not only the perspective of practical politics and cultural-aesthetic creativity, but of philosophical ontology as well. In the end there is no final relationship between these spheres, and thus there is no ending in figuring out what makes "another world" possible.