Today I went out to vote and on my way I still couldn’t decide what to vote for. Here’s the dilemma: the people of Switzerland are voting on the so-called «1:12-Initiative». Coming from the left, the initiative, in a nutshell, wants to oblige companies to not pay higher [more]
It is obvious that there cannot be any beginning before the beginning. So what is before it? And what name do we want to give to it? Philosophy is nothing other than this temptation of the nameless. Philosophical desire circles around a void which would be misrecognized if [more]
When it comes to racism or discrimination I’m like a super Nazi. I can’t help it; it’s stronger than me. It’s physical. I’m the person you don’t want to have at a party, when someone blabbers out prejudices. I become like police. I detect it everywhere or at [more]
Something absurd about female nudity on the Internet. While shiny bodies in bikinis, lolling on golden beaches are adored (http://instagram.com/abikiniaday), photos of pubic hair emerging from bikini bottoms are a reason for account deletion. Some examples of female nudity the Internet dislikes: via oystermag. Petra Collins’ Instagram was [more]
Today I like the idea of being the worst enemy of my own prejudices.
Modern Jewish satire began in regions of Germany and Austro-Hungarian Galicia in the first two decades of the 19th century, later spreading to Russian territories in the 1830s and 1840s and extending into the 1860s and 1870s throughout Eastern Europe. It originated with the traditionally educated adherents of [more]
What isn’t like shooting freethrows? The more I think about it, almost everything feels like standing at the painted line, the ball in your hand, the ref’s whistle in his mouth, your teammates tensed, ready to lunge. The safety dribble: your little signature, your lucky pebble, your last [more]
There is a certain mutual agreement taking over a lot of people’s minds, and it says that technology is bad for you. You can look at bookshelves and bestseller-lists and you will find all kinds of books, essays and guides claiming it. Some say, the internet rewires our [more]
Pharrell says: “Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof / Clap along if you feel like happiness is a truth.”
Manchmal stelle ich Google Fragen, auf die ich keine Antwort will. Grundsätzlich hat Google natürlich auf alles eine Antwort, auch auf die Suchanfrage „suchanfrage ohne suchergebnis“ gibt es ungefähr 230.000.000 Suchergebnisse. Aber ein Suchergebnis ist eben nicht automatisch eine Antwort. Mein Ziel ist es, Google eine Frage zu [more]
Mores in Tiergarten are always lax and indulgent. When P. J. Lenné starts in 1830s to change things, ripping out the forest in order to get some light into it, making many clearings, opening meadows and trails, there are protests and people at first methodically destroy the work [more]
I saw this pic of River Phoenix today and it got me wandering from there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTp-gBfGVvU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA Lollapalooza Festival 1994
About a year ago, my mom sent into exile a selection of books to our new house in Tangier. She said it was a random selection, but most of them belonged to me of course, probably because of this tendency I have to drop my books in my parents [more]
Many of the 60pages dispatches seem to have been written in transit, up in the air. Writers are frequent flyers, cosmopolitans, people of the world. I conform by just having boarded the 5:20 pm flight from Tegel to Vienna. Unfortunately I had to leave my research group’s workshop [more]
Dibbs drops his camera in the abattoir slurry. A year later, to the day, his gate slips on the Kings Road. Something else about the film and the gutter.
In 1938 L. Ron Hubbard went to a dentist. He was just a pulp writer at the time, who worked so fast that he used butcher paper to type on, which he then cut up and sent to his editors. The dentist put him under. Hubbard felt himself [more]
The cabdriver had a moustache and looked friendly. He wore a brown leather jacket and a neat white shirt underneath. I like friendly cabdrivers, and so we talked, and his accent was soft and lyrical and full of warmth. It sounded familiar, and I asked him where he [more]
At the end of my personal 60pages I can’t tell what it did with me. As many of us I’m not a professional writer, but to me writing is to comb through the entirety of myself, and thus with all involved ups and downs, a constant weighing of [more]
For Foucault, Nietzsche is the philosopher who has broken with the modern concept of philosophy, with philosophy as a movement of totalization with a universal claim. Since Nietzsche, thinking is satisfied with establishing the particular. It is itself perspectival instead of assuring itself of its origin and its [more]
ciao iph! hey double bitch! che freak. 21.11.12 Haddon House, 10 Hanson St, London W1W
Geht mein kindlicher Traum in Erfüllung? Die online Ausgabe der Zeitschrift Monopol berichtet in einem Artikel vom 21.11. über Querelen am Bauhaus in Dessau, dass der Kurator für Architektur und Design des MoMA Philip Johnson einen offenen Brief zugunsten des wackeligen Leiters des Bahauses Dessau unterzeichnet habe. [more]
Amy Zegart mit einem Vortrag (und einer Studie) darüber, wie die Darstellung von Geheimdienstagenten in Hollywood die Wahrnehmung von realen Geheimdiensten beeinflusst.
50 years ago today jfk was shoot in dallas. 34 years ago the campaigns for 1979 san francisco mayoral elections reached top with except of “sister boom boom”, a transvestite nun running for the “nun of the above”-party, dead-kennedy’s singer jello biafra as one of the mayoral candidates. [more]
Last night, I sat down with two fiction writers and one painter to sing. There were two guitars, one banjo, and lots of sheet music. We started with some classic bluegrass numbers and moved into the blues and then some Gram Parsons country. Most of the songs I [more]
50 years ago today JFK was killed in Dallas. As a kid, I heard about this event through the eyes of my parents who were at the impressionable age of 18 when the shots rang out from the book depository and into Kennedy’s head, according to the story. [more]
The controversial Whole Foods supermarket along the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn has gone from topic of years-long debate to near-reality. After more than five years’ delay (due to community opposition—traffic, artists neighborhood, upped real estate prices), the Gowanus branch of this ‘natural-only’ supermarket is slated to open in December. [more]
Happiness is a dark and warm piece of forest, where everybody is lingering, silent and vulnerable. On the south west side of Tiergarten, below the golden Victory Column there is a busy gay cruising area. Night and day men of every age and look are waiting here and [more]
Tomorrow John F. Kennedy will be dead for 50 years. Don’t get me wrong, but I am no fan of anniversaries. They often celebrate a part of the past in a glorifying tone that makes me feel uncomfortable. The past is reduced to a few well-narrated lines whilst [more]
Melancholy presents the subject with an account for its subjectivity. The subject has to pay for what cannot be paid for. What cannot be paid for is the name for the subject’s initial encounter with loss. For there is something resembling a subject only as the subject of [more]
A 3 day old baby is sleeping beneath a mosquito net and is I guess completely unaware of how beautiful it looks like.
or is it the message?! While researching, brainstorming, looking mainly in the internet ( and my brain) for new ideas to work into new concepts for my projects, this rather old but still relevant quote by Marshall McLuhan came across my mind. ( After being quoted for a [more]
A propose de la guerre: Il y a eu des malentendus et des évènements. Maintenant, c’est du passé A propos de son apparence élégante: C’est ma tenu de tous les jours. Je ne sors qu’en cravate. Ça fait cinquante ans que je travaille ici, juste en haut là, [more]