Neulich suchte ich im Internet nach etwas, das ich gern kaufen würde, wenn ich es bräuchte (nicht zu verwechseln mit Dingen, die ich gern kaufen würde, wenn ich sie mir leisten könnte). Bei meinen Recherchen stieß ich auf folgendes Angebot: „Hier finden Sie ein Podest für Zirkuslektionen für [more]
To the Zapatista, “The important thing is the spectacle that you make out of an event in the media, as opposed to the event itself.”
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Shortly thereafter, one of the young boys appeared at the bedchamber door with a small brown bear in tow. The bear had beady little eyes and fluffy [more]
For some reason, for years now every single time I sit down and think about what to write, the word “Spiegel” (mirror) pops into my mind. I don’t know why exactly. I pronounce it silently inside my head, a little like Beckett’s Krapp utters “spooooooool” now and again. [more]
The friend that I visited in London, I have known for more than 30 years. It was in the middle of the year when I joined the tenth grade of high school, took the empty seat next to him in the left rear corner of the classroom. We [more]
“I just don’t enjoy pretty faces in leading roles” my friend Polina says. We’re eating bagels, ’cause we Jews. More specifically: Jews from the 50s. Whenever she’s in Berlin we meet up, to work on things and to eat the Jew-iest things we can find. But not like [more]
In a few hours, Twitter will IPO. The price of TWTR shares has finally been set ($26), valuing the company at roughly $18 billion. The question now, is, what will TWTR do with all that money?
I opened the newspaper this morning to yet another story of an ordinary young man doing what used to be an extraordinary thing (in a public place). A 20 year-old man with AK-47 walked into the Garden State Plaza mall in northern New Jersey late Monday night, terrifying [more]
We’re going to do it. Yes we are. It’s going to happen. And when it does it will happen fast. You’ll have to staple your eyelids to the top of your skull to catch it and even if you do you’ll be really unsure and insecure when you [more]
Identity is a powerful concept. In its strongest sense, according to Rogers Brubaker, identity is believed to be universal and mostly the same over time. We can be unaware of our own identity: it can be revealed to us at a later date, or we could be [more]
Why not moving out of cities. Spending your time in a quiet place, not influenced by the hectic outside. There is small but existing possibility of having some time thinking and doing. You can sleep longer, have long walks, the best and freshest produces. In the best case [more]
Congratulations LICHTENBERG! People do constantly underestimate you. You’re big, not the biggest district in Berlin but yet very big. You have the highest buildings and the most beautiful towers. Your parks are wide, your streetcars silent. And what’s more: you got the Dong Xuan Center! I like you. [more]
There is a new building in Berlin, finished in 2012, that brings the discussions of the last years to a crucial point. Is it innovative or is it just a playful interpreation of the good old facade logic of contemporary investment architecture? During my 72 hours in the [more]
Went to Winterthur (#JourTag13) this evening to hear Daniel Binswanger (DAS MAGAZIN) giving a speech about the situation of journalism. Daniel was one of the keynote speakers at the yearly conference of the Association of Quality in Journalism. He compared the latest developments in journalism to bubbles in financial markets. [more]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies in the park of Ermenonville on 2 July 1778. His days there are otherwise perfect, where he walks around and collects plant specimens that he dries out for his book of herbs. When he dies he is placed in a tomb surrounded by poplar trees [more]
That’s where the person lives who has this great connection to the German chancellor’s cell phone…and basically any other device or communication…of everyone else. Yes he can.
Four-leaf clovers, toadstools and chimney sweeps may be common good luck charms in most of Europe, but in Austria, Germany and Switzerland it’s all about the Glücksschwein, a New Year’s luck-bringing piglet made of marzipan. It is often clutching a Glückspfennig (lucky penny). In the Middle Ages, a [more]
Chapter 4: How I stopped being a motherfucker and became the soft funny crippled nipple-licker, I am still today (1) Zyklon B. The gas, they used to use, when concentration-camp-inmates, Jews and also Non-Jews were amassed in the so-called shower-rooms, waiting for the shower, being already full of [more]
Art shares with philosophy that they are both: affirmation and resistance. Affirmation does not equal approval. Affirmation means saying yes to reality in its incommensurability-value. Being open to the world as it is. That is why such affirmation implies a certain resistiveness, a resistance against a schema of [more]
The Great Tower, Giorgio de Chirico, 1913. The Red Tower, Giorgio de Chirico, 1913. The Nostalgia of the Infinite, Giorgio de Chirico, 1913.
L’asiacenter. Dong Xuan. The heart of Lichtenberg. The future of Lichtenberg. The Original Don Xuan in Hanoi, French colonial Les Halles:
L’asiacenter. Dong Xuan. The heart of Lichtenberg. The future of Lichtenberg. Hội đồng hương Quảng Bình tại CHLBĐ. Hội CCB Việt Nam tại Berlin-Brandenburg CHLB Đức.Hội Phật tử Việt Nam tại CHLB Đức THÔNG BÁO Hội đồng hương Quảng Bình tại CHLBĐ Hội CCB Việt Nam tại [more]
The “affirmative essence” (Thodor W. Adorno) of art must turn against its own distorted image, against the idealist temptation to locate art somewhere beyond the world of fact. Affirmation is not naïveté or approbation. Affirmation is invention and construction. The affirmative intensity of the work of art includes [more]
Auf Sad and Useless erschien gestern folgender Beitrag: „Best Pictures from Russian Dating Sites“. Er ist treffend betitelt, denn er versammelt die besten Fotos von russischen Dating-Portalen. Also die schlimmsten. Dass es sich um Bilder von russischen Portalen handelt, merkt man abgesehen von den musterfreudigen Wandbehängen im Hintergrund [more]
Hitler invested heavily in speed, and in 1939 sent BMW to compete in the Isle of Man TT. War was declared three months later, and supercharged engines are eventually banned. Manx cat patches are exclusive to the Liberated Film Store.
Just to dispel any notion that this here publishing endeavour is some sort of cult or pyramid scheme: I recruited another writer to join #60pages and I got no stinkin’ shirt. Just the gratification that my friend’s great ideas will be heard and read by people. Which, nice, [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Words had never come easily to me. But then I remembered I’d managed to deliver a few sharp comments the day before. So I gathered up my [more]
Because inequality exists there is something to be thought. Because the world — the spectrum of institutionalized realities — is a world of unequals (not only of unequal subjects), it is not only a living space but a space of thinking opening up the possibility of holding up [more]
Tonight I dreamed of Helmut Schmidt. I have no idea why. We somehow met in a hotel backroom where he took a break from attending a conference as a speaker. I was a bit shy and didn’t want to bother him. However, he understood right away through my [more]
Every genuine artwork comes from the future, never from the past. Poor art can be recognized by its sentimentality, nostalgia, admiration of the past, in short, by its inability to make the future precise. Instead of competing with documentation and historical work, it is always a matter of [more]
The MahuGang “Back to the roots” (Marrabenta) 17 Laurinda Quan họ Choir Berlin 24 Ba Quan Moi Trau
Yesterday was my final philosophy class, which I celebrated by taking the wrong subway and arriving half an hour late. The Korean girl had just delivered a presentation on choice, to which nobody was responding, despite Reinhard’s gentle prompting. I asked for a copy of the handout she’d [more]
ministerpräsident is the title worn by the head of the government in any german federal state. his power more or less depends on the size of population and the economic contribution to all of germany’s gnp. according to the way the ministerpräsidents interpret their authority, germans sometimes call [more]
Gestern Abend, Karstadt am Hermannplatz. Verzweifelter Versuch meinerseits, der Verkäuferin mit herzlichen Floskeln ein Lächeln zu entlocken. Natürlich vergebens. Ich glaube fest daran, dass die von Deutschen oft so monierte „falsche Freundlichkeit“ der Amerikaner im Servicebereich den Verkäufern selbst etwas Gutes tut. Schließlich produziert das Gehirn auch Endorphine, [more]
Ernst Bloch said: “I just know Karl May and Hegel. Everything else is just an impure mixture between the two of them.”
VOICEOVER Words bounce off the walls, echoes of my sins, i raise my voice, the words ricochet. Note to self -don’ talk. Scene 28a Exterior shoreline, day. [jwplayer mediaid=”13981″]