BLUR - 6 MINIATURES ABOUT BLURRINESS

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We find ourselves in an ambiguous situation which is difficult to assess, the observation of others gives no indication of the correct behaviour. A misinterpretation, a misconduct, is quite probable. People are still searching for truth, struggling with it, holding on to it. They defend it and in the end they are desperate of the many faces of this truth, which is called history and yet is only politics.

There no longer seem to be any causal relationships - only individual discrete events that are joined together in the brains to form a continuous line. This series of historical events forms a catastrophic movement that sweeps people away to spit them out again in an uncertain future.

The longer we look at the blurred photography that is supposed to be an image of this past, the less we seem to recognize it. For it was only through photography itself that the fuzziness came into the picture: this idea of a subjective perception, a gap between two stable states, the image of the non-visible.

In this gap, this ambiguous situation that is difficult to assess, it hits the vague people who, due to the great uncertainty, are unable to arrive at any moral knowledge or ethical evaluation of the situation. Let us get to the bottom of the origins and follow the motives. Thousands of times we look at the images of this one unheard-of event and yet we do not recognize any meaningful approach to action, nothing that could testify to elementary value. Like the image of an insecure mass of people in the midst of an overbooked plane facing a great sharpness in the implementation of commercial and political interests. An invisible but clearly defined goal of profit maximization seems to be pursued here. But the question of whether a sovereign blurriness can be deduced from this dilemma will only be answered in the future, in a future in which wave and particle, observer and actor will merge into a third.

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We look at the blurred photography and vaguely remember the unpleasant feeling of having found ourselves in an ambiguous situation that is difficult to assess. The observation of the others gave no indication of a correct assessment of the events. Misconduct could not be avoided. The disgust at the images of violence dug deeper traces into the continuum of events than the experience itself. How could we have known what had actually happened?

In search of the truth, it got lost in the images and dragged people through history in an enormous catastrophic movement - as if to spit them out in a future whose images remained immensely familiar and at the same time disturbingly mysterious.

The exploration of causalities and the hope of recognizing linear processes took us back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the youthful freshness of science suddenly lost its face in the fatal connection that physics had to make with politics. Like the quantum that, with the help of an enormous amount of energy, jump from one track to another across the nothing, quantum jumps of violence, destruction, and arbitrariness were breaking through and produced a whirling movement that finally brought us under the eyes of the others to the limits of our own ability to act in an overbooked plane. Had we learned to deal with the images in the turbulence of events, or would they continue to fade away the closer we look at them?

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We are in a clear system, zero one, yes no, on off, either or determine our view. Clear distinctions define our perception. To name something means to distinguish it from something else. That gives security. We are for or against, there is right or left. That makes it clear and unambiguous - simple! It helps to survive: Friend or enemy, danger or security. Fair or unfair, luck or misfortune, wave or particle. Precisely delimitable with sharp edges and dividing lines. A third must not exist. For already in the revelations of St. John chapter 3, 15 to 17 it says: "I know what you are doing. I know that you are neither warm nor cold. If you were at least one of them! But you are neither warm nor cold; you are lukewarm. Therefore I will spit you out of my mouth." And so the anger of God hits vague people, for they are not punished like sinners, but they are spit out and excluded from the community.

Whereas in Aristotle's world there was a clear distinction between things: what is one cannot be another at the same time: that is, not man and woman at the same time, today hybrids populate our world, hybrid forms, hybrid beings, cyborgs, crossbreeds, interacting implants, intersex. Fuzzy Logic is the theory behind modern mixed forms, a logic based on fuzzy belonging to different sets. It knows the two sides of a distinction, but also the whole infinite middle in between and the flowing nuances between true and false. The Fuzzy Logic recognizes that there can be both an "either - or" and a "both - and". Because vagueness not only saves costs, it can even be useful. Strategically, vagueness is used, for example, in politics. The more openly interpretive and vague the political statements are, the more possibilities for connection are offered and the less voters are put off. Machines with artificial intelligence, adaptive systems, automation and control technologies have been using fuzzy logic for decades to bring about stable and rapid decisions. They create the smart home, smart automobiles, smart production lines with smart products and smart decisions that determine when it's time to leave a system before we even think about it.

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We find ourselves in multivariable situations, starting and target values can be interpreted in many ways. The observation of others is outsourced and is evaluated and constantly updated by complex algorithms. Causal relationships have given way to a stream of interpretations. New results, columns of numbers define the hierarchies of above and below, of good and bad. They have already become moral instances and determine future action. The opportunities for one's own career, for political decisions and election programmes are measured by these rankings and repeatedly adjusted to them. In their deep trust in adaptive networks, people have handed over the search for truth to intelligent systems. These systems enter into the depths of images. In the photographies, they search pixel by pixel for errors and manipulations until they reach the smooth surface and deliver high definition images of artificial narrations. Like the paradox of quantum physics, in which probabilities determine the occurrence of events and parallel universes are quite possible, humans move simultaneously in different worlds that are both real and artificial.

The hope of recognising linear processes once led us back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the youthful freshness of progress in a seemingly naïve gesture connected science and politics and pushed people through history in a maelstrom of violence, destruction and arbitrariness. Implicated in a net of dependencies, it finally spits them out in an all-embracing comfort zone where the objects can speak and follow moral principles. Whereas in the past commercial interests led to overbooked aircraft, today people have become a part of the value chain, which places them in the gentle chains of omnipresent smart production and connects them with robots and machines