(2. chapter) metabolism? stuff of life Metabolis of a human is complex: from digestion to spirit producing metabolism of the brain. Metabolism of the car is rather simple. As product of its metabolism the car gives the socalled exhaust over to the metabolism of the world. This won't stay without doubt without effect for the world, just like the products of our own metabolism. Arguable on the other hand is what kind of effect this will have. Automobilologically one could call it eschatology of the car: some think, in a strange mixture of fear and expectation, cars will cause the end of the world, at least a great flood. Others think the implicitly disregard of the world by the car can be turned positively, and with a sacrifice, the offering of fine metals, the godlike-terrible car can be tamed: vor example in the catalysator the metabolism is cleaned of its dangerous parts, without changing the principle by that though. Lets test how farreaching the comparison goes: the cup of the last supper, in which the mystical metabolism takes place and the wine becomes christ's blood , is adorned with silver, gold and precious stones. And the catalysator against the effects of the metabolim of the cult of movement does in fact contain the fine metals platinum, rhodium and palladium. And oil hanst not only been called 'blood of the world' since the SPIEGEL-title from may 24th. The car as a bloodthirsty, eschatological monster which askes for several tributes. In some citys of africa a car which has caused an accident is not taken to the garage but for treatment to a voodoo priest. our sick brother the car chapter 2 postulates: with its not establishing, but only using metabolism the car is an artificial bloodless animal, which produces illusions all the time for its owner the human being.   (3. chapter) metabolism? energy   The steps of chastening of the alchemistic process, the degrees of the perfection in mystical spirituality demand rites of killing. Matter dies and transforms itself into energy. But energy is information. A modern car is teeming with information: for once the outside one, like the demonstation of demand for luxury, power, freedom and control over time and space, then the inside one, systematically ordering and orienting information, like for example the GPS answer to the question "where am i actually? or "how is the weather outside?" and so on.. The worth of image of the car lies mainly with the price which the owner can afford for it. In far higher expenses than were acutally necessary for the gain of movement one can see a stating symbolical burning of accumulated abstract work values, i.e. of the money/ the gold. Under the aspect of luxury the normal parameters of circulation of worth have been set out of power for a great part. But one aim for the chain of gain of value, which is not unlike metabolism could also be to brace for the heights of the so-to-say abstract consumism of luxury. Remains further to be said that also electronical knowledge of these days of a car still stays on the own basis of burning, burning of fossile energy. It is a clear input-output rule, a metabolism like in a child's book: cheese sandwiches cause dreams, just like with Windsor McKayÕs 'little Nemo'. Just mention I would like a very special case of abstraction, a non-controlled, explosive transforma- tion into another degree of materialism: instead of letting run  the process in the motor with control, the whole car itself is brought to an explosion and should force politcal change as a car bomb. chapter 3 postulates: the car as energetic being. (4. chapter) metabolism? cognition All this mingling in analogies is certainly not argumentation. It is more a lineup of associations of suspicions which can be reasoned, which themselves should stimulate metabolism of thoughts. Metabolism eventually is a genuine artifical method: the things and constellations of things made by the artist produce meaning only always in transformation to something what they are not. Stone as stone, picture as picture have to be sacrificed at least, used up and be translated to gain meaning. They cause the goodlike spark and move the senses and the spirit of the onlooker onto a higher aim. And the critic and other explainers have the function of the crank shaft. (c) Hajo Schiff, Hamburg, 2004

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