That’s probably a really common thing but there was a time when things that announced themselves as aggressively high-brow were quite appealing to me. I knew about The New Yorker, yes, but when I learned about The New Republic I was quite charmed. Because of the age, yes, [more]
Viele Kinos heißen Odeon. In der griechischen Antike bezeichnete ein Odeon einen runden, überdachten Raum für Konzertaufführungen. Wie ein Amerikaner namens Thomas Tally darauf kam, 1896 seinen Filmvorführraum als „odeon“ zu bezeichnen, ist nicht überliefert. Mit den antiken Horten der Hochkultur hatte sein mit klapprigen Stühlen ausgestatteter Raum [more]
Monday morning saw me sat in the German embassy in London, waiting my turn to speak to somebody behind some glass about my application for a German passport. It is harder than I thought it would have been, baring in mind that was my second appointment this year [more]
The clash of two blindnesses, of opaque pre-reflective matter with the opaque self of a subject without subjectivity, marks the scene of birth or beginning of another, non-Cartesian subject that unites the darkness of its origin with the veiling of its horizon, a singular subject that is equally [more]
The Arabic word for a state of mental malaise literally translates into the word node. An image suggesting: an intertwined conflict, not easy to dissolve, a chaotic amount of life events, feelings, thoughts, a chaotic amount of colourful strings. With the passing of time, at some point, what [more]
The third installment of the guest appearances presents a collaborative text by Alison Yip, Claudia Barth, and Agnes Scherer about their recent project in Düsseldorf involving a local group of Ikebana artists in a two-day, ephemeral exhibition based on a Haiku: “The exhibition ‘At The Indoor Pond’ was [more]
My fear is that when slavery was abolished in the mid-1800 and my great grandfather was given a name I fear that he was some kind of religious freak who because of that was given some biblical name to keep him happy. Other than that I have no [more]
1. Because Foucault is the thinker of the subject of a certain self-derangement. The subject leaves its traditional position. It becomes the subject of a movement of decentralization. The subject is the subject of a powerful self-marginalization. It is the subject of self-exceeding. It goes through the experience [more]
According to Vint Cerf, Google’s chief internet evangelist, and one of “the fathers of the Internet”, Privacy is an anomaly. His view-point is that privacy is an artifact of technology in the first place (in the olden days, everyone knew all the time what everyone else was up [more]
A shock of bamboo, twice my height, hiding the house behind it. A sign: State Maintenance Ends Here A man, wearing hunting gear from head to toe, except for a small portion where his midriff sticks out, like a teenage girl who’s planned her outfit accordingly. He holds [more]
Six months from today, some adults will no longer be able to legally buy cigarettes in New York City. Those 18 to 21. Yesterday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed legislation that will raise the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21. And the minimum purchasing price for a [more]
Court psychologists dub the gunman as an individual with “mythomaniac tendencies”.
Istanbul as a city is vast, chaotic, energetic, ass-kicking at times and simply beautiful at others. What strikes me most is the energy which keeps people going. It can be immensely frustrating to live here when you have to travel every day 2 hours to get to work [more]
Kanzleramt is a combination of modern and postmodern references, with gravitas, transparency and lightness playing an important symbolic role in it. One can observe the rich growth of mildew and moss crawling on the sand stone of the building, especially on its north side. For this reason the [more]
It’s true we want to charm you with our readymade expressions. And with our curry. Because we have a favor to ask of you. The truth is, we need you more than you can ever know. The reason? Sometimes when we write our own words, we can’t look [more]
Theodor W. Adorno: “Relativism, no matter how progressive its bearing, has at all times been linked with moments of reaction, beginning with the sophists’ availability to the more powerful interests”.
A lot of people mistake appearance for quality. The better something looks, the richer the form, the better it is. Or so they think. This is interesting when it comes to writing or the market of thoughts in general. A book – finely printed paper, carefully bound and [more]
Auf dem Grundstück Oriole Road Nummer 18 in Toronto stand eine weisse Eiche (white Oak). Sie war 200 Jahre alt. (Wie viele Blätter eine 200 Jahre alte weisse Eiche hat ist mir unbekannt.) Der Baum ragte weit über das rote Backsteinhaus, hob riesige Gehwegplatten aus massivem Stein, [more]
Der Bildschirm ist Blau Das Augenpaar eines Mannes späht nach links nach rechts geradeaus Um das rechte Auge schließt sich ein Fadenkreuz Das Fadenkreuz reißt auf, dahinter erscheint die verschwommene Silhouette eines Mannes Er hält sich die Hände schützend vors Gesicht Rennende Beine auf nassem Asphalt Aus einer [more]
“I was a child, seven or eight years old, I was in an isolated house, near the closed window, I looked outside — and at once, nothing could be more sudden, it was as though the sky opened, opened infinitely toward the infinite, inviting me with this overwhelming [more]
Let us continue the research into Method Acting in architecture. Here comes another building, one of my favourites of the glorious year 2012: the Ärztehaus. It is not easy to decipher, which role it took on. What about the column, is it bearing the load of the building? [more]
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/18/musings-indias-new-drug-subculture/
Dear Anglosphere, there’s this rumor out there that the English language is easy. It’s not. I mean, how do you explain to a non-native speaker that the word diaper is spelled like that? It looks like a crazy mistake. It looks like it should be pronounced dee-aper. [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World That afternoon he sentenced three more men to death for various infractions. In the evening Jonathan came to the Lady House asking to speak with Belinda and [more]
Dear Eva, since days now i am thinking about what to write you or which form our conversation could take. as you see, i decided to write to you in english, like you suggested. i know my english is not the best, since i just learned in school [more]
I went out, to get some lightbulbs. I wasn’t sure which size and what Watt power. I wanted to surprise myself. I wasn’t feeling weird, like, at all. There’s a Gentleman’s club not far from where I live that I passed. For the first time I noticed the [more]
I would like to apologize (for past offenses and in advance) for what feels to me like proselytizing. I am committed and sure that I am right. I do not, however, expect you to agree. Or, even worse imagine that I think I am better than anyone else [more]
COPY+SEND: United States Supreme Court C/O Attorney Chokwe Lumumba 440 N. Mill St. Jackson, Mississippi 39202 Hon. Supreme Court Justices: I am writing this letter in support of Mark Anthony Myrie AKA Buju Banton. Mr. Myrie has filed a petition in this court seeking review and [more]
A little over a year ago, giant alien faces, hovering helicopters, googly eyes, bubble letters, Charlie Chaplin, cartoon creatures, hearts and swords and sailors and statements of a wide variety adorned the warehouse walls at 5 Pointz, in Long Island City, Queens. For more than 20 years, 200’000 [more]