We painted Novak the whippet’s toenails and our lips red, our eyes black, we swapped glasses and dresses and got drunk on bubbly, danced to Falco and forgot to eat. We looked like Hildegard Knef. The view over the roofs of Berlin for once gave us the feeling [more]
Der Express vermeldet, dass sich Großbritannien auf den schlimmsten Winter seit 1947 einstellen muss. Ohne zynisch klingen zu wollen: Da kann man nur froh sein, dass ein Großteil der aktuell lebenden Bevölkerung Englands 1947 noch nicht auf der Welt oder in einem Alter war, in dem man schlimme [more]
Yesterday I met with my friend Sophie, she used to intern with me in Amnesty’s office in Tel Aviv. We have not seen in each other in a year, and she invited me to a concert of oriental klezmer in a cool concert hall of Paris, because she [more]
2. Eine weitere neue Serie mit dem überlangen Namen Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ist die Erfindung von Joss Whedon, der mit Buffy seinen bislang größten Erfolg hatte. Die Prämisse ist völlig abstrus, sagt aber schon eine Menge über die Haltung der Serie aus. New York wurde von Aliens [more]
Friday night I met Eva by chance for the first time. Well, not really, but somehow yes. A little later Sandra and Linlin adorned me with a crystal necklace which everyone seemed to like, or they just found me ridiculous. Andreas of Die Welt said I looked like a [more]
Eine über hundert Jahre alte kanadische Eiche hat 800000 Blätter. Erst Knospen im Frühling, entwickeln sich die Blätter, belauben den Baum im Sommer und fallen im Herbst. Alle 800000. Nicht von einer Minute auf die andere, sondern innerhalb mehrer Tage. Die Beetrose Professor Sieber der Rosenzüchterei Kordes [more]
I get jealous over things that I don’t actually want. We can observe that many people have this problem. Rarely are people above this. When they are I am quite rightly jealous. In order to be more productive we desperately need to address this. The problem of unconsidered [more]
The onto-political concept of the refusal introduced by Maurice Blanchot is anything other than reactive. It is aggressive. It corresponds to the law, not of unity, of consensus and of satisfaction, but of a “necessary division and an infinite destruction”. In it an echo of Walter Benjamin’s destructive [more]
Das Mirador del Río liegt auf einem 475 Meter über dem Meeresspiegel befindlichen Punkt der Steilküste des Famaramassivs. Die 1973 vom lanzarotenischen Künstler César Manrique, unter Mitwirkung von Jesús Rafael Soto und dem Architekten Eduardo Caceres, entworfene Aussichtsplattform (offizielle Eröffnung 1974) ist im typischen Stil Manriques in den [more]
Gegen 19 Uhr verließ ich das Bratwurstglöckl. Die Kellnerin, die aussieht wie Prinzessin Shrek, schickte mir einen Kussmund hinterher. Im Stehausschank traf ich Stummel, der mir sein neues Monokel zeigte und mit mir noch einen Schnitt trinken wollte. Er bedauerte, dass er seinen Schnupftabak nicht eingesteckt habe. Ich [more]
Gilles Deleuze: „Moi, je veux sortir de la philosophie par la philosophie.“
How to back out of the alternative of finitude and infinity, reality and ideality, the possible and the impossible? How to think an opening that opens toward something not-given—toward the nothing itself—; how to affirm this opening toward closure without depriving it of its characteristic openness? How to [more]
The lacanien real is the name for that which does not belong to the space of facts. The real names the border and the constitutive exterior of the factual dimension. The real is more real than reality. It is what inscribes a fundamental inconsistency into „realistic“ calculation, the [more]
This morning I went to brunch in town with two fellow VCCA residents at What a Blessing. That’s right; the name of the bakery is What a Blessing, and if you walk in wondering what kind of blessing they’re talking about, there are bible verses pasted all over [more]
Issued in 1876 by English artist William Hogharth “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane” were two drawings used to accompany the states campaign against Gin. Back in the days England faced a huge alcohol problem. The authorities connected the high level of crime to the consumption of certain beverages, [more]
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As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World At this moment in linear mortal time, I understood, we were in the process of replacing our lost history with something else. Just as the bear had [more]
I like the german word «Entschlacken». Schlack is the kind of sticky slag you’d find, if you melted an entire building: an impure mixture of iron, copper, glass and the likes. It is the state I sometimes feel like after a really busy week. Schlacky. Saturdays, for that [more]
She is the best Emma we’ve ever had because her director, Vincente Minnelli, not only made a story about a woman’s self-destruction, he made a film about a female actor’s narcissism. In the movie, Jones, who had won an Oscar five years before playing a saint, is ravaged [more]
Neulich lag auf dem Gehweg an einer Straßenkreuzung direkt neben einer Ampel ein Schuh. Es war ein schwarzer Pumps aus Lackleder, beziehungsweise wahrscheinlich eher aus Lackplastik. Er sah jedenfalls aus, als hätte er nicht mehr als 29,90 Euro gekostet. Wäre es ein wertvoller Schuh gewesen, dann wäre der [more]
1: You could, like, go all heat-death-of-the-universe on the whole affair. 2: Like lightly defuse it in a really micro way? Like the difference between a whole neighborhood’s worth of fourth of july fireworks and a pipe bomb? Clustered versus dispersed? 1: No, I guess that’s [more]
How could I forget to talk about Casa Camper. It is one of Berlins pearls of Method Acting Architecture. Until today it makes me feel uncertain. Is it acting like this or is it acting like that? It is an example of double role acting, the mastery of Method [more]
Don Draper must have smelled like a ferret. All those heavy suits, the booze sweat, the old smoke. That’s not a new observation – though I don’t think it’s been addressed on the show. I’m just thinking about it because on this week’s “Brooklyn Nine Nine” there was [more]
Sitting in her kitchen and eating baklava, my friend told me about her slightly creepy new job today: She answered an advertisement on Craigslist from an American company looking for German-speaking applicants who could transcribe audio records. She passed a test and got the job: Now she receives [more]
If you are ever on the Rhine during tourist season, you will encounter what I did: the ship called the MS Heinrich Heine. It was for work, my Rhine boat cruise. And it was not on the MS HH. With students who were seeing the Rheintal for the [more]
Copyright on sale of the revolution belongs to Ono. Photograph belongs to Purge with thanks to Mind. Black on black hand embroidered ’70’ patches are available exclusively at the Liberated Film Store. Spandau Barry ‘7’ patches also available, also exclusive to the Liberated Film Store. Q. Who [more]
Tiergarten is made for everybody to sleep. When walls are more than one can stand and the world outside is unobstructed in its entirety, open and home. Now that the low forest is thin and transparent, everything is visible, also the sky. The season is back. The under-forest [more]
Ich liebe amerikanisches Fernsehen. Und nein, ich rede nicht nur von den „guten amerikanischen Serien“, in die das deutsche Feuilleton so verliebt ist. Ich schaue mir jeden Blödsinn an. Jedes Jahr im Herbst gibt es die „Fall Premiers“ und ich untersuche gewissenhaft zumindest die Piloten. Dieses Jahr war [more]
Weißt Du, als Kind fürchtete ich nichts mehr als den Fuchs. Unten im Wald hinter dem Park unter dem Schloss hatte ich beim Spielen ein verbeultes altes Warnschild gefunden. „Vorsicht Tollwutgebiet“ stand darauf zu lesen und ich malte mir wunderbare Dinge aus, die man wohl anstellen dürfte bei [more]
If you have to travel a lot to reach and visit places far away you have to believe that everything will be all right
The world of facts is a sphere which by definition excludes truth in order to enable social, political, cultural, that is, identifiable reality. Realities or factual truths are truths that are not truths. The space of facts is constituted through the pathological exclusion of truths because truth is [more]
There is no active consumption. In the objectivity of the consumer, the subject becomes controllable. It is disciplined, calmed down, tranquillized and put out of action. The subject of capitalism as this receiver-subject is a subject reduced and restricted to its capacity to consume. It does not decide [more]
Jacques Derrida: “A just, appropriate decision is always necessary immediately, at once, right away. It cannot first go about getting hold of infinite amounts of information, the limitless knowledge of the conditions, the rules, the hypothetical imperatives that could justify it. Even if it had such a knowledge, [more]
