25 years ago, on the 29th of october 1988, the east-berlin newspaper “berliner zeitung” writes about the start of the unamnned soviet spacecraft “buran” at baikonur. buran (russian: Бура́н) translates snowstorm. the picture below the note “heute zweimal um die erde” is labeled “Tyuratam Space Assembly and Launch Complex. Courtesy [more]
There is happening a nice thing in the archive graphic of 60pages. Marcus’ green line is about to erase his name. What remains is “weg”. One English translation of “weg” could be “off” and I was wondering the last few days, whether Marcus will soon be “off” 60pages? [more]
Aphorisms now being made available to citizens in the streets of London: in order to understand how casually profound this statement is you first have to consider the contrary- a statement that long delays are impossible- what would that mean? at the very least a re writing of [more]
“You can write to Pvt. Manning at the following address. While the outside of the envelope must be marked “Bradley Manning,” Pvt. Manning will be happy to accept letters that refer to her with her chosen name Chelsea on the inside. She has also expressed that within the [more]
I trust people. People do all kinds of mean and nasty things. Still, I find it easier, even rewarding, to trust them. I’ve always thought that was because I am a spoiled kid from New York. Now I observe that most everyone around me is spoiled too, good [more]
Built at first for the purpose of scientific research on the south west side of Tiergarten, the Berlin Zoo, transforms into a hybrid place, hosting animals but also catering to the general public’s entertainment. It becomes more and more the focus of royals, diplomats and politicians, as a [more]
Winter is coming soon and that means “super smog” is back in Beijing. This picture was taken on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, probably recently. I don’t know the time and photographer, found it today here.
waun e schdeam soit waun i amoe a bangl reis zu deitsch: de bodschn schdrek – i hoff es dauad no a wäu bis zu den leztn schrek – waun i daun oesdan schdeabm soit so bit ich eich nua r ans: jo nua ka r eangrob aum zenträu! [more]
11F; mein Sitzplatz. Neben mir dieser schwere Mann, verharrt zwischen den Armlehnen wie in einem Käfig, die Hände breit geöffnet auf seine Oberschenkel gelegt, bewegungslos, die Finger liegen einzeln, jeder für sich, ohne Zusammenhang. Ich versuche den Mann im Profil zu sehen, sitze aber zu nah für [more]
And realizing that can be a pretty brutal experience. Yet after accepting what you will never be able to change, everything becomes a little easier. Life, the one and only true teacher amongst all the other quacks.
Transcendence is the essence of a subject without essence. The subject is the ecstatic subject of a primordial self-transgression and self-surpassing. It is the subject of this ontological nakedness and poverty, to be nothing but a subject of emptiness, indeterminacy and lack of essence. This subject appears in [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Dead again at last! My soul swelled with joy. Free of my body, I was getting ready to rise straight through the roof to the joyful world [more]
Some wisdom from my childhood: apart from the really obvious, the worst thing you can call somebody is “Stalinist”. (I grew up in Pankow, the wall had just come down.) To this day my mother insists on this, not just because Stalinism was a dictatorship, it was also [more]
That the world is indefinite means that it remains open towards its inconsistency which describes its state of immanence that Maurice Blanchot has associated with the topoi of an empty past. Only in the opening towards non-determinacy can there be freedom, in the acceptance of the contingent character [more]
Do art and philosophy share a concept of experience of this sort, one aiming at an event that is excluded, by definition, from the apparatus of established realities but emerges, as what is excluded, in the space of fact? How can we assert such an emergence without hypostatizing [more]
https://vimeo.com/58614208 The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating past, with its great preponderance of dead men and the menacing glaciation of the world. The nineteenth century found its essential mythological resources [more]
You could see it coming. This year, there would be a philosophical fight between the new Hollywood minimalism (The grey ghost is supposedly Leonardo di Caprio in his Halloween costume on Sunday) and new barock style, that was gone for a while. (The girl in the grey swimsuit [more]
I’m ill since days which drives me mad. Worse than that, since days, insanity goes through my mind because of the newest thing going on in Turkey. But I coulnd’t collect my senses to put some sentences together just to describe how insane this is. Today I resumed [more]
Mastertech’s first job in Britain was slapped in Nine Hours to Rama.
We talked about hedonism, and Armen, maybe without really meaning to, sounded like that might be a problem. The good life. The pretty things. The pretty people. The pretty clothes. I knew what he meant. But this is the problem, right, of 2000 years of falsehood. Because: Hedonism [more]
Dr. Norden is a German physician based in Munich and he is famous for taking good care of his patients. He never reduces a patient down to his medical condition. For Dr. Norden the human being, full of feelings, is always the center of attention in his own [more]
Some years ago the singer Rickie Lee Jones took me to a Lou Reed concert; she had never seen him perform. About half way through the set she said, incredulous: But he can’t sing. What was astonishing to Rickie was the lack of musicality in Reed’s voice–it’s flat [more]
To honor the dead is not to pretend they haven’t died, or that nobody has died, ever, or to make sure they’re safely buried or to think that a few gentle words and two coins on their eyes alone make for a proper send-off. With that in mind [more]
So, the whole thing begins with the unprecedented storm in London today. There has been 4 deaths in the report and the tree in front of our house got a real neat hair cut after the gush of wind this morning. As i was watching 3 TV-atenas dancing in [more]
Well there was a storm and some trees fell down, four people died and a lot of power went off but it wasn’t a great storm like they were promising on Sunday, like the one of 1987, and for the whole of today they didn’t have enough to [more]
I learnt a word today. It was adiabatic which means something like “without passage”, describing a thermodynamic process where there is no heat exchanged between a system and its surroundings (correct me if I am wrong). It would be a nice word for a game a friend once [more]
„Für unsere Studenten nur das Beste“ – die erste und bislang einzige Rektorin der 1773 gegründeten Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie Irmin Kamp ist in der Eingangstreppe ebendort eingemeißelt. Denn diesen Aus- und Anspruch formulierte die Bildhauerin während ihres Rektorats von 1982–1987. Anlässlich der Ernennung Klaus Staecks zum Gastprofessor meißelten Schüler [more]
„Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, der hat bereits alles verloren.“ Ich hörte diesen Satz gestern in Günther Jauchs Sendung auf ARD. Er gefiel mir auf Anhieb. Nicht nur deshalb, weil er mir sofort klar machte, dass meine bisherige Einstellung in Sachen Datenschutz und Abhörskandal noch etwas naiv ist, [more]
You are lying in your bed and the rays of the sun gently shine through the window into your room. You want to get up but somehow feel like staying a little longer in bed. But suddenly you hear this awesome music played by instruments whose sounds had [more]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB6ZxS23b5s thanks annika – it was just two clicks away from your post. more tattoos, more sunglasses, more hair, better voice. forget lou reed for the next 20 minutes.
More soldiers, more recruits, more heroes, more photos: October 26, the Austrian National Day at Heroes’ Square.
Dass Frauen in Saudi-Arabien kein Auto fahren dürfen, weiß ich schon lange. Dass dies von vielen Männern (auch außerhalb Saudi-Arabiens) begrüßt wird, auch. Neu hingegen war mir bis gestern, dass auch die GEMA etwas gegen saudi-arabische Frauen am Steuer hat. Am Wochenende protestierten Saudi-Araberinnen gegen das Fahrverbot für [more]
In 1971 Marguerite Duras met Francis Bacon in Paris. They spoke about painting and writing. It was a matter of the experience of accident shared by writing and painting. Bacon said, “I do not draw. I begin by placing a lot of spots (taches). I wait for what [more]
REVEL EVER, EVE! O EVE, REVEL EVER!
The hyperborean subject inhabits the universe of facts without assimilating itself, like the hypochondriac subject, to the order of facts. The world of facts is the world of objective unfreedom, the world of determinants, laws, definitions. It is the world that has already been decided, the universe of [more]
Mother Teresa and Princess Diana? Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson? Add to that Arthur C. Danto and Lou Reed.
My father recently returned from a trip to Australia where he encountered the story of the Cane Toad. He retold it to me in great detail last night on the phone. Here it is: The first 102 cane toads, native to Central and South America, were introduced into [more]
http://youtu.be/LV86pwOnm4w My mom and dad both love Lou. Lou, my mom and my dad, made me love him too. (I wonder if YouTube are making the adverts more expensive on Lou Reed videos today?)
At the end of the film Donnie Darko, Donnie travels through a wormhole in order to save world. The world is a personal universe of family, home, school and the dealing of adults who lost hope and innocence, corrupting the young with each decision every day. Donnie rides up [more]