In What Is Called Thinking? (1951/52), Heidegger says of man that he points into the withdrawal in that what must be thought eludes him. That that is so means that the event (Ereignis; the belonging-together of Being and beings, or of Beyng and beyngs) shows itself at the [more]
“(…) neurohypophyseal peptides oxytocin and vasopressin in the central mediation of complex social behaviours, including affiliation, parental care and territorial aggression. Research on a monogamous rodent, the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) suggests that these neuropeptides also involved in the control of several behaviours associated with monogamy, including pair bonding, [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I blinked and wiped the blood out of my eyes with my sleeve. When I tried to clear my throat, blood gushed out of the wound again. [more]
Alright, let’s self-reflect, let’s discoursify content management systems, let’s bore the living crap out of each other. Believe it or not, it’s ten o’clock in the morning and I am cooking soup with Sam. Another Sam. At the CDC, which might be the Center for Disease Control, the [more]
Evidently the definition of the human being, which lies in his not being ontologically defined, is still in the tradition of the onto-zoological definition of the human being as an animal rationale (or irrationale), as zoon logon echon, as a living organism defined by the logos, the ability [more]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s definition of the human subject opens the subject up to a logos, which does not simply confront non-meaning as its opposite. Nietzsche says: The subject has the logos as the essentially undefined, his capacity for language and meaning is the opening-up to non-meaning and the margins [more]
Den Kopf schräg angelehnt sitze ich unbequem verdreht seit zehn Minuten regungslos. Die Vibrationen des Flugzeuges übertragen sich auf meinen Schädel, in den Nacken, verlieren sich in der Wirbelsäule. Vor dem einen Auge, dicht an der Kabinenverkleidung, verschwommen ein Karomuster. Mit dem anderen Auge sehe ich durch das [more]
I almost didn’t notice it. Right across from Mocca’s, on 140 Maiden Lane, is the Xanadu Gallery, or what was formerly known as the V.C Morris Gift Shop. This building is a very special construction – it was entirely designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Its facade is unique, [more]
I was waiting for my team at this great bohemian place in Palm Springs, when I found this incredible book about Lee Miller. I was always attracted to Miss Miller, my photographer that day asked me about her, who she was and I said, she worked with “Ray [more]
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera Watch the film, sure. But read the book first.
`Our words no longer correspond to the world. (…) Every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. (…) Consider a word that refers to a thing -`umbrella’ for example. When I saynthe word `umbrella’, you see [more]
I didn’t want to write about gin and tonic. It is my favorite drink, I know why, I don’t need to talk about it. Maybe some day I’ll tell you but at the moment I’m afraid that by putting words on it I will no longer enjoy my [more]
Attiret, a French missionary priest in Beijing reports in 1743 on the large imperial Garden of the Gardens, a flamboyant aberration and delight, where several mountains are artificially constructed. Streams and canals meander in between, forming lakes that extend like a sea. The shores are full of hand-crafted [more]
Ned Kelly, the Irish Australian bushranger: played by Mick Jagger in Tony Richardson’s 1970 film adaptation; by Heath Ledger in Gregor Jordan’s 2003 update. June 21st 2012: Jonathon Stenberg decapitates his neighbour Ned Kelly after an ongoing dispute over land. June 23rd 2012: During an unprecedented manhunt for [more]
Découvrez les kits de cigarettes électroniques et les saveurs (e-liquides) de chez Alter Smoke Cigarettes électroniques! Sounds great, looks good. In France it is considered cool to smoke électroniques. People show off in front of the Café de Flores with their kits de Alter Smoke. There, in Paris, [more]
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It is there. At any given moment. And it is always elusive. One can never catch it, name it, live with it. One can never be one. So why is there this romantic notion that in writing you can be yourself? As if this was some holy sacrament [more]
It’s a public park. People savor the great weather. They have a picnic with friends or family. People enjoy a break, some time out, the freedom of freedom itself. A few families are working though. They are hired to take care of the plants, bushes, trees, meadows. A [more]
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We are not communists. Maybe we should be but that is not my main concern. My concern is rather the question of what we are to each other. We are essentially alone together so we are left with our own ideas. Those ideas need playgrounds. I hope that [more]
This year, a revival of the famous 1966 Method Acting Festival of Belgrade, Montana will happen in Berlin. Like the original, it will take place on Christmas Eve. In preparation for the event, some Berlin residents were invited to take part. For the untrained, like me, a crash [more]
She was the daughter of a geisha, and an actor; she herself was trained as a child on the shamisen, an incredibly ornate and beautiful instrument. As an actress, her body was an ornate and beautiful instrument, played in films by Mizogushi and Kurosawa–or would appeared be a [more]
[jwplayer config=”bombay” mediaid=”8607″] the package was (or still is – can you confirm this Enrico?) on sale in india. the gin and the box did end up in Grünwald. the look inside the box was denied by its owner – so we (Karl and I) are still guessing how [more]
In 1971, Gilbert and George were asked why they had picked Gordon’s for their piece ‘Gordon’s makes us very drunk’ and their answer was: “Because it is the best gin.” For the film, they added their names to the bottle’s label on either side of the Royal crest. [more]
Nate “Gold” Silver is hiring. And when the wizard of data (journalism) is hiring you should be listening. If you want to work for FiveThirtyEight, Silver’s company/blog, you have to be a kind of wunderkind, a techy journalist, a journalistic techy. FiveThirtyEight is looking for people with an outstanding combination of [more]
After Eva’s Sunday manifesto, it is admittedly hard to decide what, and how to write. How to continue, and what to decide. Let’s go where it hurts, she wrote. Austerity instead of oysters. She even used exclamation marks! Manifestos always make me sad. There is a distinct melancholy [more]
Es gab mal einen Film, einen Hollywoodstreifen, denke ich. Auf jeden Fall gehörte einer der Darsteller zu denen, die man kennt, auch wenn man nicht viele Filme schaut. Deswegen gehe ich mal davon aus, dass man ihn als Hollywoodstreifen bezeichnen kann. Die Handlung war ganz nett, vielleicht etwas [more]
1. Orchestra Concerts. You love classical music. You love performances. You love getting dressing up. So why, two minutes into a symphony from Beethoven, do you inevitably begin wishing they would just hurry up and be done with it? Why train your eyes on the conductor’s sheets of [more]
Dieser Beitrag bezieht sich auf das Projekt 60pages als solches. Es ist der erste und einzige Beitrag dieser Art von mir. Danach wird alles wieder so sein wie vorher. Damit es so weitergehen kann, wie ich es will. In ihrem Beitrag von gestern stellt Eva Wilson die gleichen [more]
Chapter 2: Me, the continuation of my Mom (part one) Although God gave me a penis, coming along with all those terrible masculine power hormones, who drive us men into this urge for senseless restless and limitless expansion and world-conquista, I definitely am the direct genetic continuation of [more]
Deconstruction — the procedure to which Jacques Derrida has given this name, which is irreducible to a law, a principle or a method and is therefore always a singular procedure — has always appeared as self-deconstruction, as deconstruction of the selfness of the self and the same by [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 under the bay, and what I decided there By dawn I’d reached the eastern edge of the bay, where the ruins [more]
About G&T, since you ask. Gin got gentrified during the British empire with the addition of tonic. Before that it was known as mother’s ruin. The secret ingredient was not the gin but the quinine in the tonic that was added because of its anti-malarial properties. It is [more]
Who shot Hanns Martin Schleyer? Over decades investigators don’t find an answer, not even with newest forensic methods. The former terrorists from the Red Army Faction keep silent. After 36 years. Hanns Martin Schleyer was kidnapped on September 5, 1977, in Cologne to free imprisoned RAF leaders like [more]
Nun soll also in Berlin, nach dem „upper Eastside“, diesem feuchten Grossstadttraum in Stein, auch ein „upper West“ entstehen. Am Breitscheidplatz, wo bis zu seinem Abriss das Schimmelpfeng Haus stand. Was ist von Stadtbebauern in Berlin zu halten, die ihre Gebäude „upper Eastside“ und „upper West“ nennen, mit [more]
The question of the subject – “Who am I?”, “What is a human being?” – is always flanked by the question as to meaning, the sense and origin of human existence. Philosophy lives from the phastasm of the prescriptive securing of the essence of the subject in a [more]
Art exists only as an assertion. Every assertion is headless, blind and exaggerated. To assert headlessness itself demands of art a kind of breathless precision.The subject of art is a subject of this self-assertion. It asserts itself as a subject of breathlessness which leads it to the limit [more]
These days, the partner look is all the rage on the streets of Beijing, as the newly fashion conscious Wall Street Journal reported a couple weeks ago. Just to set the record straight, I felt it important to point out that the forward thinking folks at the Leipzig [more]
I was invited to this Gala Dinner: The opening of a center for art and culture, the first and only one in Beverly Hills. The guest-list was very impressive: Brad Pitt, Robert Redford, Jodie Foster, Kevin Spacey and so forth. I was well prepared, beautiful dress, incredibly high [more]