“The human being”, says Martin Heidegger, is “in its essence itself a katastrophé […] – a turning-about which turns it away from its own essence. Among beings, the human being is a complete, unique catastrophe”. The meaning of this statement, of course, resides in the circumstance that the [more]
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I was until 7am at Wilde Renate because I didn’t remember how old I am by now. The lovely Tills were there. Now I sit in a huge Sessel and watch Tatort. I did it my way. (Mäx was there)
The experience of art is the experience of the conditions of its possibility as much as of the affront to these conditions the work represents. The concept of art condenses the paradox of a performance that must turn against its own possibilities for the sake of the impossible [more]
There is an apparatus made out of two. The smart phone and the binocular as an untechnical innovation. It is not technics, it is rather a systematical misuse of two monadic systems. Films should be made this way. For my Method Acting experience I will try not to [more]
Chaos has the status of a radical outside, but it shares the one territory with the subject which is the world of immanence, the world without an outside, i.e. without an exterior.
Achilles G. Rizzoli, Virginia Tamke Symbolically Represented, The Tower of the Hour, 1935 miscellaneous: The Central Asian Pavilion at the 55th Biennale di Venezia, Presented by Ayatgali Tuleubek and Tiago Bom: Encyclopedic Palace designed by Maurino Auriti:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXWWz5Tv_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXINTf8kXCc
From his Sister Marion Brasch: Das ist mein Bruder Thomas. Ich habe das Foto gemacht, als ich ihn 1993 in San Francisco besuchte. Er wollte dort für ein paar Monate wohnen, um zu schreiben. “Komm doch einfach her”, hatte er am Telefon gesagt. “Es ist schön hier.” In [more]
We should take solace in wondering if we are going too far. Though it remains hard to jolt us out of the easiness and into some new fire we should do it, in itself an easy premise.
Je mehr Frauen von sich zeigen, desto stärker macht sie das, glaubt man bei American Apparel. Weshalb die weiblichen Models bei AA gern möglichst spärlich bekleidet sind. Die männlichen Models haben zum Jeanshemd immer noch eine Hose an, die weiblichen oft nicht mal ein Höschen. Jetzt hat man [more]
I watched this this morning, half awake. I’m not sure what to make of it. It is snuff sensationalism and emotional exploitation porn as much as it is a heart-wrenching and compellingly humane form of journalism the likes of which I have not yet seen. I have been [more]
I. Liebe und Zeit hat etwas damit zu tun, dass man sich älter fühlt, wenn man eine Beziehung beendet II. Liebe und Sprache hat etwas damit zu tun, dass viele Dinge zwischen zwei Menschen eigentlich ohne Worte geschehen Und damit dass man sich trotzdem manchmal in einer Beziehung, [more]
To philosophize means to take on the identity of a subject without subjectivity (and that means also without identity). It means to resist the comfortable indolence of securing one’s identity in cultural, social, political and other models. Philosophy is resistance through opening up. And what the philosophical subject [more]
An object that fascinates—what kind of object is that? What does fascination mean? Fascinationm marks the split between subject and object. To be precise, it confronts the subject with its objectness. It heterogenizes the subject, reconciles it with basic heterogeny. Fascination objectifies the subject; it hollows it out, [more]
This Morning, M23 declared a ceasefire with the A23. The motorway runs from south of Hooley in Surrey, where it splits from the A23, to Pease Pottage, south of Crowley in West Sussex where it rejoins the A23. The northern end of the motorway starts at junction 7 [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The Duke sat back. A handsome man, intelligent and spoiled. When he had first peered at me in the terrible chair, I had sensed an interesting presence. [more]
If the entire onto-theological tradition, at least in the orthodox reading, has privileged an onto-theology of two worlds over the alternative of immanence, if there is in it a turn in faith toward a beyond and toward a life after life, then its structure can be identified as [more]
MELINDA [speaking with sincerity, strength, and conviction]: What Lord Nimrod says of my native Africa is only the TRUTH! We goddamned Negroes are merely here to serve the superior white race. We are blacks. We are born to be slaves. The white race should continue to dominate us [more]
So Koestler spent time in Paris in 1946 – right when Maurice Merleau-Ponty wrote a scathing parody or review of Koestler’s “The Yogi and the Commissar” for “Les Temps Modernes”, the magazine founded by Sartre. Camus was around, of course, as was de Beauvoir. They all hung out. [more]
In the history of philosophy, chaos has many names. It is the divine, the noumenal and the sublime, the untimely, the uncanny, nothingness or freedom, the infinite, becoming or the exterior, contingency and pure multiplicity, the dimension of the ethical, of the mystical, of the miracle and the [more]
Content publishers are not ready for 4K HD TV just yet – this recent (beautiful) ad campaign will spur the movement… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6kdfaBS4rA
The diagram stands between order and chaos – just like the subject. It is wrong to think that the object did not do anything but to oppose chaos. As long as we define chaos as universal incommensurability, which, instead of describing a mad world, indicates this one and [more]
The Penthouse editors got thousands of applications by young women who wanted to move out and have been invited for an interview. Here are a few of the rejected candidates.
Eine Straße. Ein Passant. Im Begriff, diese zu überqueren. Er macht ein paar Schritte auf die Straße und sieht einen Radfahrer kommen. Der Radfahrer sieht den Passanten auf die Straße treten und berechnet anhand dessen Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit den zu erwartenden Überquerungsverlauf. Der Radfahrer ermittelt, an welcher Stelle auf der [more]
From 1930 to 1933 von Neumann often lectured to college groups in Princeton and enjoyed it immensely. It inspired him and he usually spoke without notes. He was said to be an indifferent teacher. His lectures were popular, though he was not easy to follow because he talked [more]
From the outset philosophy has caused anxiety. What caused the anxiety was the lack of anxiety, philosophy’s courage, because philosophy is a movement full of risks. It is a movement of love (philía, philein) requiring courage and resolve. People have tried to subject it to ridicule. People were [more]
The Liberated Film Store confuses CCTV footage used in this morning’s LAX shooting, with Chris Petit opening a door to morning during the shooting of Flight to Berlin.
Before Method Acting will take over control please let me offer one last image to you. The Wolfgang Pauli Street is under construction, the main function of the Wolfgang Pauli Street is moved to the rear development. By this, the Rear Window became the belle etage, where you [more]
10 mins – 5 mins – 2 mins – 1 minute. Anyone can be an artist.
In a commentary on Deleuze’s last essay, “L’immanence: une vie” (1995), Giorgio Agamben arrives at the following diagrammatic conclusio, which schematizes a certain sequence in modern philosophy: TRANSCENDENCE [more]
(Naaadjaa! Ich liebe dich. Spray paint on cement. Anonymous.) Bergmannkiez, my neighborhood, is not fun at night. The few bars are either trying too hard or not trying at all; your best bet is lingering over wine or grappa at La Bionda, the Italian restaurant at the corner of [more]
Okay, this was to be expected. I got mixed up again with my little short short-story. Chapter 4 “How I stopped being a motherfucker and became the soft funny crippled nipple-licker, I am still today” is still in the making. I am not really sure for the very [more]
Doesn’t happen too often but I was for once ahead of the FT. Vanessa Friedman met Joel Arthur Rosenthal, the owner of JAR (or even JAR himself), aka the Fabergé of our time, for the Lunch with the FT series. It was some years ago when I had [more]
Pariser Platz doesn’t exist before November 24, 1994. When the first MTV Europe Music Award fills the space with a white tent for 2.500 invited guests. The show is hosted by Tom Jones, Take That win best group, and Brandenburger Tor turns out well as a stage background. [more]
And there was light. And I saw the light, and it was good. Very good actually. Or as a friend of mine and I would express it in a very simple term: Goil!