Luise Meier, born 1985 in East Berlin, dropout, »freelance« author, among others for the Volksbühne Berlin as well as waitress, will read from her new book »MRX Maschine« – published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin at ZKM on July 12, 2018.
On his 200th birthday, Karl Marx is dead as never before: either he is used for trivial sermons of doom or exploited to create new theories to supply the academic market with fresh goods. It is time to use Marx as a fuse. This is how the »MRX Maschine« is created. The »MRX Maschine« taps into feminism, postcolonialism, and more, looking for the rifts, perversion, and stench that make the proletariat behind the entrepreneurial self recognizable. The »MRX Maschine« scans the scenes of public self-marketing and the private factory of body optimization for traces of the internalized class struggle that screams for disintegration and waste, scratching the polished user interface. »MRX Maschine« is a secret greeting to all deniers and blue-makers, it is analysis agitation and aggression in one - and for the time of reading you are on sick leave.
Wie Meier anhand historischer Schlaglichter den Status quo dekonstruiert und dabei konsequent feministische, antirassistische und antikoloniale Positionen mitdenkt, ist beachtlich und äußerst lesenswert.
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- ZKM | Center for Art and Media
