Paul Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) Stay low on defense. Move your feet. Don’t be lazy. Box out. Grab the rebound with two hands. You can’t debate feasibility. Go after efficacy instead. Speak clearly and don’t be afraid to make eye contact [more]
Chaos is the lack of ground or the abyss. It is the dimension which forever precedes the Logos, reason, language and communication. The Logos refers to this abyss. It points to it. The abyss of the Logos cannot be thought as ground. The Logos glides over its own [more]
To think the childhood of philosophy, Greece, means not much more than pointing to the Mediterranean and to the peoples which triumphed over it. Of the philosopher it can be said what Hegel said of the Hellenic people: that they are at home on the water of the [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World There was a commotion in the hallway and one of the attendants went to the door. He scurried back and whispered in the stocky man’s ear, “Dr. [more]
Art exists only as an assertion of form which accelerates beyond what is well-known, while refusing to allow itself to be assimilated to any kind of nature. The alliance with the natural is necessarily regressive. It enters a coalition with a metaphysics of the origin which is at [more]
There is an irreconcilable difference between art and culture, and so art must needs defend itself against culture and its imperatives. He is an artist who engenders a conception of art that has never yet existed in this precise form. The only works of art that count are [more]
With the sharp wits of someone who is overtired, Antigone has an overview of her fate. She accepts that she has to die. It costs her less than living without having loved with this kind of passion which is equally madness and crime. Completely absorbed with herself and [more]
I wouldn’t be surprised if top party officials at Beijing’s government headquarter Zhongnanhai are toasting each other these days with ridiculously expensive French wine over the fact that Merkel’s phone has been bugged by the NSA. A decent bit of Schadenfreude should be involved: The more international media [more]
Ein Nachruf ist die legitime Reflexion über die Wirkung eines Einzelnen auf die Dynamik einer Gruppe von Vielen. Die Wirkung des Einzelnen auf einen Einzelnen betrifft die Vielen nicht, das ist privat, intim oder uninteressant. Nun sind aber die sozialen Netzwerke voll von solchen individuellen Äußerungen, kaum ist [more]
I gave myself ten minutes to create this (surprising) piece of virtual art – on a digital app called Paper. As their slogan says, the app is Simply Beautiful, unleashing the artist in the most unexpected of us.
How is it possible to make a good decision? A decision that actually proofs to be the right one. To make a choice in general is not the easiest thing existing. Too many things are relevant. Making a decision can be an act of creation. People invent a [more]
Since 1965, on October 26, the Austrian National Day is annually committed. The day the act of Austrian neutrality was decided in 1955. Nearly 1200 recruits from all over Austria, including three women, were sworn in on Saturday at the Heroes’ Square.
The rift was there, infront of our eyes. There was a sense of time, a sense of ending, a sense of urgency. Armen was very adamant about it. The new way of thinking, the new way of doing things, or doing business, of bringing people together, the new [more]
My weekend with the original NYC-cab brought a lot of surprises. The most memorable is the actor, who was part of the entourage of Lady Gaga. His career lead him into the inner circle of L.A. society, but without further reputation in the history of film. He played [more]
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Much of the past has been about creating stability. There is a glass wall between the hedonist’s space and sacred space. We can bring them together Monday through Sunday.
Some statistics of fuenfnullzwei.de/60pages (until October 27): 60000 visitors No. 1 day so far was October 21 with 2,330 views Anne Philippi and The Tills are the most visited 60people. The top three posts are: Was machen wir mit den restlichen Wiesn Fotos? Kapitalistischer Realismus (3) Michael Althen And [more]
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Philosophy is restless. It is without measure and without rest. It does not find any end. Its desire accelerates into the infinite, is unstoppable and excessive.
Travel + Leisure named Lesotho’s Matekane Air Strip one of the world’s scariest runways. The tarmac is only 399 metres long, and it ends abruptly at the edge of a couloir at 7550 metres. If you run out of runway before getting airborne, explained bush pilot Tom Claytor, “you [more]
Once identified as a sympathetic character, you can and will commit the worst deed without losing the audience’s respect.
When I was a student at SUNY Purchase in the late nineteen-seventies, there were two other students of color, one of whom became a treasured friend. Near Halloween, there was a knock on my dorm door (I had never been away from any length of time before). Opening [more]
What does intensity mean? When do we use this word? Francois Lyotard, for instance, has defined intensity as an incommensurable energetic value. This enables him to identify the “production of concepts” in a representative discourse with an “attenuation of intensities.” Intensity is what resists being channeled. It defies [more]
Die Sache mit dem Turmbau hängt den Babyloniern heute noch nach. Man glaubt, sie waren geltungssüchtig und maßlos. Und schuld daran, dass sich die Welt mit Fremdsprachen herumschlagen muss. Dabei waren die Babylonier hochkorrekte Leute. Sehr auf Pünktlichkeit bedacht. Kein Wunder, sie hatten die Pünktlichkeit ja selber erfunden [more]
Jacques Derrida calls différance a difference that does not belong to the system of identity-difference. The différance is not the negative that helps a positive to a mediation with itself. The thinking of différance is neither negative nor dialectical, nor speculative. It refers to a game that withdraws [more]
They sit in silence. The man holds his head with both hands, elbows on the wooden table, eyes closed. Three day beard, blond hair, or is it grey. The woman next to him looks past him, her forehead wrinkled, she stares into the distance. She is wearing a [more]
Neurotically symbolic in form and choice of location, on the north side of Tiergarten along the Spree, Haus der Kulturen der Welt is an extraordinary building. Hyper-charged with the weight of semiotics, it cannot escape irony. The contribution of the United States for the International Bauausstellung of 1957, [more]
For the ones who have read a few posts of mine I think there is no need to explain why yesterday’s post wasn’t happening. For the ones who haven’t the answer / excuse is as trivial as always. No network. That’s the way things are in Uttar Pradesh, [more]
I live in downtown Shanghai. In the past two years that I’ve been here I get the feeling my neighborhood is slowly turning into one single luxury shopping mall with a couple of luxury hotels, a streets and office/resident blocks in between. Within a circle of three kilometers [more]
Maybe this gin thing is your belle époque, maybe to do with football and last season’s rise of the German phoenix. You don’t have to pretend to be Cuban or Spanish any more. MoL says fuck the salsa classes! This gin thing is a bubble too, still post-2008 [more]
das sind immer doch die allerschönsten momente der rückbesinnung im heute auf ein ungewisses morgen. da plante ein architekt aus aachen1930 für einen flugfanatiker und textilfabrinkanten aus krefeld mit dem namen lange einen golfplatz, der nie realisert wurde. begehbar, erfahrbar – schöne momente im heute. LUDWIG MIES VAN [more]
Rare picture. Lou Reed (middle) John Cale (left) and Andy Warhol (right) all smiling, lightness. No harm. Lou Reed, who just died, was not famous for being “light”. You looked at Lou and saw all the heaviness, the disturbance, the danger and the grandezza of an underground rocker [more]
Today the hotel we are staying in closes for the season. There is an air of giddiness among the staff, coffee refill requests are cheerfully ignored, the unimaginative flirtatious comments of 50-year-old German men are met with no indulgent smiles from the young Polish waitresses, just an impatient [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World He left me shackled all night with no food or water, which my indestructible mortal body did not need but still sorely wanted. The next morning he [more]
It is part of the subject’s normality to transcend normal circumstances. That is the meaning of Kant’s formula about metaphysics as a “natural predisposition.”/”Naturanlage” We may also say: perversion against nature as naturalness or abnormality as normality. We move within the precinct of the “human,” but this is [more]
