#8 Nach einiger Zeit war klar, wie es um beide steht. Sie konnten es nicht ändern, sich nahe zu sein. Sie waren sich sehr ähnlich, zumindest ging er davon aus und das mochte er. Nach einiger Zeit, sie sahen sich weniger und machten weniger miteinander, änderte sich nichts [more]
Use ideology wisely. But use it. Ideology is not necessarily bad. It gets things moving. It shakes things up. It puts a certain force and urgency behind arguments and observations that if lacking will be felt like a bucket draging behind a boat as you try to move [more]
Theodor W. Adorno never ceases to insist on the possibility of aesthetic autonomy in its opening toward its own impossibility. This renders him the advocate of a possible impossibility. Part and parcel of art is its “rejection of empirical reality.” Art departs the “empirical world” not by fleeing [more]
There is art only in the here and now of the one world without exit: the world of fact. Art is not an escape from it; it frames its aspiration to autonomy amid the world of determiners in order to escape in an opening toward heteronomy its phantasmatic [more]
Flying implies all the risks of lifting off, of speed and crashing. Flying demands the courage to an unknown movement into the unknown. Flying is the form of movement of philosophy, of another philosophy withdrawn from evidence, from light and enlightenment, from the imperatives of facts, from the [more]
A few days ago it was on the news that now half of humankind was born after 1989. At first that seems terrifying. However I know a girl born in 1989, which I find quite wonderful. Her name is Jasna Fritzi Bauer. She is an actress and has [more]
MoL’s pop-up shop/show opens tomorrow until Sunday. This is the inventory. MoL PAMPHLET 100 COPIES. Contents i) Fragments of the Lost Library ii) MoL Diaries i.e. 60pages iii) Inventory MOL PAMPHLET : 20 signed copies with CHINESE BOXES bootleg MoL THE CLOCK : 99 pamphlets; MOL reissue from [more]
Every society has it. The thing that glues us together, for a moment, for ever, who knows. For some it’s the founding myth, the landscape of mountains or valleys or seas, for some it’s the freedom of self protection or the freedom of happiness, for some there is [more]
Established reality is supposed to be familiar but it is uncanny.
One of the great artists who taught me to see the world differently because she saw the world differently. Everything she did was based on an internal cinema, the projectors of which turned at a very interesting Gance-like speed sometimes, or Falconetti-like speed at other times, all the [more]
There is a perceived order to the world around us that is mostly made up of divisions. I.e. this is this but not that. I am suspicious of this ordering while at the same time I would like to be committed and definite.
Part and parcel of the infinity of love—which names its punctual intensity, not its temporal extension—is that the loving subject is not immortal = finite. The finitude of its life gives meaning to the infinity of love. I love, I die: this certainty can give rise to love, [more]
“Berlin: a film for the ear” appears in a lightly defined pentagram (ballooned) on a promotional poster for the album by Lou Reed. Necessary compromise made by RCA after rejecting the working title of Babylon. By 1973, the libfilm audience are beginning to lift out of the three [more]
Das Schweizer Fernsehen zeigt im Moment wieder die glücklichste Sendung der Welt: Landfrauenküche. Eine achtteilige Sendereihe, die Bäuerinnen und ihren Alltag porträtiert und zum regionalen Kochwettbewerb aufruft. Das Interessanteste an dieser Sendung wächst allerdings nicht im Garten der Teilnehmerinnen, sondern auf ihrem Kopf. Die Kurzhaarfrisur. Wer die Sendung [more]
60pages. Next week, my 60pages time will come to an end and then there will be a follow up, but more about this next week. First I was not sure, if I wanted to write a daily blog. (Georg told me though, that it would turn you into [more]
It’s a loop, it doesn’t stop. Day after day after day. Headline after headlines after headline. Mantra-like repetition is the key. It’s precision. When you say, the word Muslim needs to be in the headline, it will be and you know why. It’s impersonal. A self sustaining machine: [more]
The work of art draws its power from its resistance against forces that reduce it to an effect of what already exists.
I was talking with Sam about Sam this morning, while walking to the Center for Digital Cultures in Lüneburg. While I was detailing the situation – several conflicts and resolutions, paired with or impaired by a godforsaken time and ungodly level of toxicity – I had the most brilliant [more]
Neither the romantic narrative, nor its disenchantment in the postromantic sequence of a love identifying as a phantasm hit its aporetic core, which identifies them as lived difference. With Alain Badiou, love can be thought as „encounter and thinking“, as „asymmetric egalitarian becoming“ or „procedure for a truth [more]
Yesterday, the sky outside the Wedding Volkshochschule was distractingly beautiful. The overhead lights were off, and as Reinhard, our philosophy teacher, attempted to explain the difference between Trieb (instinct) and Instinkt (instinct), the saturated late-afternoon sunlight melted on the wall of a nearby brick building. The room’s dimness, [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I came to live in the castle of Sequoia and the miracles I performed there Clad only in a rough burlap shroud (all they had by [more]
Morgen ist Halloween. Da verkleidet man sich. Ein Kostüm tragen, für nicht wenige Menschen der pure Horror. Es soll aber ziemlich viele Menschen geben, die sich gern verkleiden. Der Verkleidungsmarkt jedenfalls boomt, das sieht man an all den Kostüm-Verkaufsplattformen im Internet. Zu Halloween verkleidet man sich klassischerweise als [more]
Chapter 3: Instead of sleeping with my Mom, I wanted to die in her beloved Poland (2) I loved their Polish rotten houses, so cosy, warm and turning on my phantasy with all these phantasies about the extinguished Jewish life, that once flourished there; to me they were [more]
the concept of national football selections competing is highly problematic. not only that “nation” itself should not be supported as prime category of identity at the expense of social agreements, it’s for example simply awkward to have angela merkel or any politician in the dressing room of the [more]
Michel Foucault consigns thinking to its indeterminate future as much as its complex arché, “an unthought which [thinking] contains entirely.” Let us quote the following important passage in full: “The unthought (whatever name we give it) is not lodged in man like a shrivelled-up nature or a stratified [more]
This is maybe the nicest thing about “Ravenous”: only after 80 minutes or so does it start to suggest that its main subject – cannibalism – might be a metaphor for something. I’m not sure for what though – homophobia, slavery, Manifest Destiny, all of the above. It’s [more]
And here we are. What a gift for the Chinese propaganda ministry. State television CCTV explains with pleasure why Merkel being a “Handykanzlerin” makes her an easy target for the NSA. China Daily has to say: […] Chinese experts said the disclosure shows the United States is making the most of its intelligence capabilities to secure its supremacy in the world, and the scandal will weaken its global credibility. […] Shi Yinhong, a senior expert on US studies at Renmin University of China, said, “Perceivingitself as a superpower, the US holds the arrogant attitude that it is not a big deal to steal othercountries’ information”. […] Guo Xiangang, vicepresident of the China Institute of International Studies, said Washington […] will never give up surveillance of other countries, including its allies. […]
Lichtenberg shows solidarity with the Oct 26th Driving Campaign “If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.” Christopher [more]
1) Today I read in a ft.com-link that British chancellor George Osborne will launch an Islamic bomb plan. Wow, I immediately clicked on the link but didn’t get very far. My position, job responsibility, and industry don’t allow me to read the ft. After 23 minutes I got [more]
Mäx, I was in Venice. Do you like boats Mäx? I can’t decide, in a way I prefer towers. Mäx, if you were a pigeon––would you live on San Marco? Mäx, are you Bulgarian?
From time to time I debate with people who are somehow proud of their birth place. I always tell them that it was just luck or an accident that they were born in Basel, Zurich, Switzerland in general. Not much to do with them. Maybe their parents chose [more]
Poll taken tonight at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London) confirms The Last Movie as the best movie of all time, and the most liberated film made in 1970 and 1971.
Fight with the best, die like rest.Fight with the best, die like rest.
The best beverage on earth is 100 Plus. Tragically, it is only available in Singapore and Malaysia. I could say 100 Plus tastes like carbonated grapefruit Gatorade, but to do so would be like trying to describe Shakespeare’s genius by listing the alphabet. 100 Plus and The Tempest [more]
The depressing thing is not the passing but the dire quality of the posthumous content e.g. Salman Rushdie’s tweet. Lou tweeted right up to the end: I tweet therefore I am. MoL’s main correspondent, silent since 60pages began, was flushed into the open by Rushdie, declaring he deserved [more]
So the rift is really a strategic thing. It is a border to cross, a threshold, it tells you: Now you are here, but maybe you want to be there, so if you want to be there, you better move. If you don*t want to move, that is [more]
I made my first Wikipedia page from scratch today. It was for United Visual Artists, within 1 minute I had received a message stating somebody had made a claim for a speedy deletion of my article. Bearing in mind, one my article was not finished, two I was [more]
Ich liebe dieses Leben von ganzem Herzen und will frei von ihm reden: Ich danke ihm den Stolz, ein Mensch zu sein. Und doch hat man mich oft genug gefragt, worauf ich denn so stolz sei. Worauf? Auf diese Sonne und dieses Meer, auf mein von Jugend überströmendes [more]
Chapter 3: Instead of sleeping with my Mom, I wanted to die in her beloved Poland (1) The older and more mature I became, the more I loved the soft, cranky, melodic, motherly, sexy and somehow also very unsexy and forlorn sound of Polish, the language that should [more]
Heute vor 175 Jahren wurde die Eisenbahnlinie Berlin-Potsdam eröffnet. Heute vor 175 Jahren geschahen noch jede Menge anderer Dinge. Aber dafür ist jetzt keine Zeit. Was vor 175 Jahren geschah, ist eh nicht verantwortlich dafür, dass heute keine Zeit ist, insofern ist es heute nicht nur unmöglich, sondern [more]