Uncertainty is the beginning.
In an ever-changing information society, the crucial skill is a kind of thinking which explores openness and challenges our fear of the unknown. In the age of media, knowledge has become information, an all too perishable commodity. Hence, only questions have kept their defining power. Lyotard's thoughts on the sublime, Deleuze's rehabilitation of the monad, and Levinas' ethics of the other contribute to the media aesthetics of Homo generator. Explores innovations in communication by applying 20th century philosophy to a discussion of today's media theory, practice, and criticism.