Marcus Boon

“Marcus Bernard Boon on German Wikipedia”

“Novalis wrote about the development of a new body that would overcome the "sicknesses" of this one. Although such talk is usually labeled "science fiction" in the absence of any serious proposals for how to construct a new body, the use of drugs can be seen precisely as achieving this transformation through chemical means. Narcotics, viewed this way, belong to what Michel Foucault calls the technologies of self.”

“I am writing from within a cultural space in which it is music, and not literature, that is the center of activity, in a way that very few people besides Antonin Artaud would have claimed sixty years ago. I am not saying this in order to use the new to terrorize the old, but because I feel in my heart that it's true, when I examine what has been most valuable, most powerful to me.”