In his book Das Ende des Josephinismus (1999), the Austrian philosopher and media theoretician Oliver Marchart states that the creation of the black and blue coalition government between the right-li­beral FPÖ, then under the leadership of Jörg Haider, and the conservative ÖVP, with Wolfgang Schlüssel as chancellor, represents a unique op- portunity for Austrian art and culture to dispel the shadow of the conflict and consensus-inviting enlightenment-from-above of “josephinism”, and to build a proper social community from a new conflictuality.