They look as they’ve been flying in from far away, probably across an ocean. Stretched neck and an enormous amount of stamina. They appear in the Spring, checking the perimeter, eventually taking over. That’s the protocol. Coming out of the lake, they walk the trail in large numbers, [more]
I don’t often enjoy being alone. When I am alone I always begin to form a vision of the rest of the world that doesn’t include me. This is because I need other people to think with me. I do not believe in the collective, rather the author. [more]
I went to E1 in the West Bank, to see how much of a discount I can get on a family flat, as a British Jew. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewZ796XAtQ Jew diligence – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwpgTfRfvBQ Nimrod Kamer, @nnimrodd
I think Gin Tonic is austerity and hedonism at the same time. Getting drunk without getting pissed. You can have the cake and eat it all. It is a drink in an age of crisis. It is stabilty, security, without Spießigkeit. You can rely on Gin Tonic. You [more]
It was an early evening in May. The evening light wrapped Jerusalem in a golden veil. We were heading towards the apartment of Abir and Lihi. They don’t live far away from Israeli president Shimon Peres’ house. So you might consider their neighbourhood posh. But there is no [more]
The irony is that what is written on the wooden key pendant seems to be an irony of an irony. Not only because of the other more “controversial” content in the photograph. It’s neither true nor is it false. Trying to define this picture by it’s content is [more]
Sehr geehrter Herr, Christoph Ammann sagte, ich soll Ihnen einmal eine Karte schicken, + hier ist die wohl! Ihr Dieter Roth
Palindome von André Thomkins Dogma:I am God“ stiess eid: mit biertrunk nur treibt im diesseits freibier! freibier! freibier! f… bürle knurre grub mild limburger runkelrüb gin ohne banknoten – essen etonknaben honig oho! klarer alkohol, oho! klarer alk…oho! nie reime da kann akademie rein ei-salat à l`asie essakademie: [more]
Georg thinks about Gin & Tonic. I try to join with a mashed hangover brain. First of all, I resigned from Gin and Tonic a while ago after a short but disastrous period of overdosed gin consumption. The only exception was at our wonderful rainy kick-off walk over [more]
À bout de souffle / Breathless is first of all the title of one of Godard’s films. Apart from that, this phrase links at least the two moments of subjectivity and flight. The subject is essentially a breathing subject. Strictly speaking, subjectivity comprises breathlessness. The subject does not [more]
Last night at Würgeengel, Georg, Sam, Carson, and I talked about the community of 60pages, about the freedom and discipline of thought in writing, about postmodernist gods, about long reads, about the daily rhythm of production, about the difference between writing and publishing, about form, style and content. [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World I sat down heavily and plunged my arm in the pail of water, where it disappeared in a cloud of hissing steam. When I drew it out [more]
And in the end, Yuval said, there are so many neglected orphaned empty ruins in Tel-Aviv, why not, like in Zürich enacting a law, that allows sub-culture youngsters to get on it, to inhabit it, as long as the owners are simply waiting for better investment-times, and in [more]
Now he left with all the things he brought, all his dreams and all his thoughts I’m still wearing his jacket And its got holes in its pockets, he was wearing it for years, holes in it’s pockets, where everything disappears, but… I’m still wearing his jacket I’m [more]
Endlich haben Menschen, die schon seit ein paar Jahren bis Jahrzehnten aus der Pubertät heraus sind, eine Erklärung und Legitimation dafür, sich immer noch so zu fühlen und zu benehmen, als steckten sie mittendrin: Das Internet hat dafür gesorgt, dass Jugend nichts mehr mit Alter zu tun hat. [more]
The government feeds the bureaucracy which feeds the media. Today’s story, a result of a shed of research money being spent, is people are getting so lonely now there is a Campaign to End Loneliness. Because of MoL’s huge search engine monitoring for any sign of the word, [more]
Niccolo Paganinis Geige hängt in einem Glaskasten im Palazzo Tursi in Genua. Il Cannone. Es war seine Lieblingsgeige. Ab und zu wird sie aus dem Glaskasten genommen und gespielt. Die meisste Zeit aber hängt sie da unberührt. 1840 ist Paganini in Nizza gestorben. Auf dieser Geige hat er das Caprice Nummer [more]
The subject of art is an infinitesimal subject. It articulates its infinite nearness to the infinite. So nearness instead of distance. The work which it brings forth can be called an infinitesimal because it expresses the distance separating it from the incommensurable.
The most general of Gilles Deleuze’s projects is to introduce into art as well as philosophy the concept of the infinite. Deleuze appears to follow an equally classical as well as hypothetical evidence by connoting art with the bringing-forth of something new, with an act of creation. Art [more]
After a long day walking and running errands in the city, there’s just nothing better than slumping into a sofa at home, relaxing, watching a movie, and having some American comfort food. Tonight’s comfort features a 16” Red Eye Pizza, with pepperoni (translate: spicy salami), red pepper (translate: [more]
Every time I come to Palm Springs, it is too hot and too quiet. (That’s exactly the reason why people come here, and me too.) Every time I try to figure out, who lives here? Who and what is the “real” palm springs persona, besides a retired American [more]
I want to start a little project: I want to uncover the meaning of Gin and Tonic. What is it about this drink? Why is it so of this moment? Why is the moment so Gin and Tonic? Where was it a while ago? Why is it everywhere [more]
Who is your peer group? Who do you compare with? Your work colleagues? Your friends? Your enemies? Dead people? Successful people? Scientists? Artists? Journalists? Rich people? The people who are attending the same birthday party? The beautiful?
The trees sinking in the water develop buttresses and heavy knees. The trees sinking in the water develop buttresses and heavy knees.
The first symptoms of losing his hearing Ludwig van Beethoven experienced when 26––at 48 he went totally deaf. Historians suggested that Beethoven was suffering from Paget’s disease of bone, but the real cause seems like a detective story: At first Beethoven tried everything to stop the progression of [more]
one of my facebook friends (Kurt Gottschalk – I never meet him in real ife) reposted this video from http://www.sltrib.com (the Salt Lake Tribune youtube video channel) as the text says: “Three men, tagged as Dave Hall, Glenn Taylor and Dylan Taylor, push over large rock boulders in Goblin Valley, [more]
The foremost interpreter of her former husband, Harold Pinter’s, female characters. No one has ever said “Hmm,” like her. It sounds like something between a full stop, a pause, and a dismissal. One thinks of Merchant’s voice as it might have sounded reading certain sections of George W.S. [more]
La conception d’une préscience de Dieu n’était pour lui qu’une futurition qui avait fait dire bien des sottises. C’était donc un homme indévot. Il n’avait point de dévotion et ne respectait pas les pratiques religieuses. Indévot & futurition Removed from the official French dictionary
MoL went to the Emirates Stadium, predicting the same score as the Chelsea match: Arsenal 3 Norwich 1. Always a supporter of the lost cause, MoL has followed Norwich through thick and thin, mainly thin, since 1959. 4-1 in the end but Arsenal didn’t need to carry on [more]
Bright new things, classic painting influences for some not so classic illustrations. Travelling around the states. Six young men driving highway to highway. All creative, feeding from each other, hungry with competition. The need to make, do and draw with skills they had and are discovering they now [more]
Alice Munro is badass because her characters are passionate but never sentimental. Children leap to their deaths and drown the dog while they’re at it. Nieces coolly despise their maiden aunts and then get bitch-slapped by a revelation from the aunt’s bastard child at the aunt’s funeral. Everyone [more]
as i/armen is/am teaching all day, today we/the students have to write his entry: johanna: Armen isst nicht. Dennis: Can god change the last week? Veljko: jedva cekam da sunce sine Cornelia: I`m able to think the death in the sun. Maja: Trotzdem scheint die Sonne. Martina: You [more]
I looked from the 12th floor down on my beloved Tel-Aviv, which I do not see so often, because my suburban wife – God bless her, she is God, she is almighty – kidnapped me to the suburb. I saw all this simple four or five storey high, [more]
Eine junge Frau sitzt in der Tram. Schräg gegenüber, ihr zugewandt, eine andere Frau, älter, schwarz gekleidet, in einer Hand einen zusammengerollten Regenschirm. Aus dunklen Augenhöhlen wirft sie stechende Blicke auf die junge Frau. Die rutscht unbehaglich auf ihrem Sitz herum, murmelt, „Schon klar, wenn Blicke töten könnten.“ [more]