I ordered a book today because I was listening to NPR on the way to Friedenau which is a very remote part of Berlin if you come from Mitte and Mitte is Berlin and all you see every day is Mitte with its Mittepeople in their Mitteclothes – [more]
Always helpful to find some time out. And especially with these days’ golden rays of the sun a real treat. Always helpful to find some time out. And especially with these day`s golden rays of the sun a real treat.
One could read Hegel’s entire project as a movement of resistance against the narcissism of the unhappy beautiful soul, against the narcissism of interiority. The subject erected by Hegel is the subject of emptiness, but this emptiness is abundantly rich, a kind of positive exterior, a desert of [more]
Undeniably, tech accessories have always been fashionable – this is nothing new. This year’s New York fashion week went berserk over Google Glass. The epic September issue in US Vogue featured a photo shoot by Steven Klein, with the beautiful Raquel Zimmermann looking icily in-control wearing her Glass. [more]
http://youtu.be/v0GQkWtQ7HU Julie Jigsaw voc, Wietn Wito b, Frank Samba dr perc ATA TAK 1982
The artwork neither articulates its intimacy with nature and the origins, nor does it declare its solidarity with the Zeitgeist. Art exists only as a conflict with its time.
The non-existence of God indicates the inexistence of a program which would prescribe, whereto the subject moves and where it comes from. In the space of this inexistence it emerges as the agent of self-innovation, maintaining contact with the objective unfreedom (its status as determined subject), without completely [more]
Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze argues, is by no means the “inventor of the famous phrase ‘God is dead.’ On the contrary, he is the first to believe this phrase to have no importance whatsoever as long as the human occupies the place of God. Nietzsche was trying to [more]
The notion of writing to anybody or nobody is strong. The nowness of the medium. The appropriation of words. The quantity. The quality. The urge not to write down a personal brain storm. Whoops.
Im Oktober 1913 kommt in St. Petersburg die erste und einzige futuristische Oper zur Uraufführung: „Der Sieg über die Sonne“. Sie ist Auswurf eines künstlerischen Gipfeltreffens namens „Regierung des Erdballs“, das sein im Titel formuliertes Ziel nicht erreichen wird. Und das, obwohl die berühmtesten Künstler ihrer Zeit dabei [more]
Yesterday, I was sleepily putting coffee on the stove, listening to my favorite radio station. I like loud music in the morning, a tradition that began at a coffee stand at Fudan University, in Shanghai, that served Nescafe mixed with hot milk and tapioca pearls. The two girls [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World How I was displayed to a large group of people at the place called Fillmore The very next week Martin told me the venue was ready. Travis [more]
Sam asked me to do an elective this semester in Dessau where he teaches. And this will happen, starting today at 16:30: Skype is a camera. We do a film with Skype. Medium production value. Locations around the world. Principal photography starts October 2013. Editing in January. Crew: [more]
Today actually I should have finished and delivered Chapter Two: “Me, the continuation of my mother” of my short-story “How my 21st y on earth shaped the things to come”. But I did not find the time for writing today, I – was – busy – with – [more]
Gola! Gola! The fans love England again! England are the new Germany! You better watch out! This time everyone promises not to get too excited! The nation expects! We will fight on the beaches! Applaud our silky samba skills! Quarter final as usual, if that. England 0 Germany [more]
Es kommen härtere Tage. Die auf Widerruf gestundete Zeit wird sichtbar am Horizont. Bald musst du den Schuh schnüren und die Hunde zurückjagen in die Marschhöfe. Denn die Eingeweide der Fische sind kalt geworden im Wind. Ärmlich brennt das Licht der Lupinen. Dein Blick spurt im Nebel: die [more]
On October 17th, 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann succumbed to the burn wounds she sustained after falling asleep with a cigarette in her apartment in Rome in late September. She was 47 years old. She had been heavily addicted to all sorts of pills for a long time, her body [more]
Late at night, after a 13 hour flight I finally arrived at my hotel, too tired to realize were exactly I was. The only thing I knew was that I’m somewhere in Los Angeles. I woke up at 6 am, wide-awake I stepped onto the balcony. The view [more]
Charles Gwathmey hat Modelle gebaut und Alvaro Siza, Luigi Snozzi und Don Hisaka, Philip Johnson und Peter Blake. All die Architekten haben Modelle gebaut; aus Pappe, aus Holz, aus Knetmasse. Sie haben ganze Häuser modelliert, oder Details von Häusern. Auch Baukörper, klein in einer Landschaft mit Bäumen aus [more]
Buongiorno (good morning) Mr. Taylor! thanks for your kind words of appreciation. My english is not as good as yours… it’s rather pidgin (as spoken in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea), but I’m ready to discuss with you about books and/or other topics by using all the idiomatic [more]
‘Lberg’, Sam wrote today. Like Joburg, Lberg. Cool. Berlin is the partner city of Los Angeles, Anne mentioned lately. And Lberg has a partnership with some district in Maputo. Wow, how cool is that? Sam also wrote: ‘We’ve got some work to do that involves my star and [more]
A few heretics in North London decided they want to pray for a non-God together agnostically in harmony. I met them. The pastor: Nimrod on twitter @nnimrodd
It was two years ago when I went to see Franz Gertsch’s seasons in the Kunsthaus Zurich over lunch time. Maybe I got hooked by the sheer size of the paintings, I still don’t know, maybe I was just hungry, but I left the museum with a huge stuffed animal gorilla [more]
The fascination for Wurst is a phenomenon. I’ve never been to a city where you can find as many Wursts as here in Vienna. The most disgusting one would be ‘die Eitrige’––a bratwurst containing tiny pieces of cheese. The cheese melts while the Wurst is grilled. It’s not [more]
From 1961 to 1988 there was a piece of land in Berlin without jurisdiction. A triangle of East Berlin, lying between Potsdamer Platz and Tiergarten and very close to the Berlin Wall, somehow always faced west. Plans for the large Autobahn project of the Westtangente had always included [more]
What is it about American Express? What is their business modell? I once made the mistake, out of sheer conceit, to give in to a woman who presented to me the Platinum Card as a way out of the constraints of the middle-class, my ticket to a world [more]
at least for me. We hired bikes to go to the Jardin des Plantes (because I visited John Berger in Antony yesterday) and later from the Jardin to the Centre Pompidou to see the Pierre Huyghe show. Two things which would make the perfect day! But France [more]
On October 16, 1909, the boxer Jack Johnson met boxer Stanley Ketchel in the Mission Street Arena in Colma, California. Jack Johnson beat Stanley Ketchel by KO in round 12 of 20. On April 23, 1916, Jack Johnson was in the ring against Arthur Cravan. Johnson KO’d him. [more]
In a review of Michel Foucault’s Les mots et les choses (1966), Gilles Deleuze, responding to the analytic of finitude elaborated in that book, brings a thinking into focus that “would of itself be in relation to the obscure.” A thinking after the death of God, it investigates [more]
MoL is composing its Fragments of the Lost Library. One hundred books that will be numbered, catalogued and sold with a special MoL bookplate. Book number one costs one pound, book number two costs two pounds, and so on up to one hundred. The dog is not so [more]
Wie kann es sein, dass ein Musikwerk nicht nur zu Tränen rührt, sondern – viel mehr als das – einen Zuhörer zum unmittelbar Mitwirkenden verwandelt und ihm, mir, das Gefühl gibt, der Protagonist zu sein? Wie nur? Man versucht so sehr stark zu sein, Schutzschilde aufzubauen, dagegen anzukämpfen, [more]
I am most worried about getting bored. The ease of the day makes me wonder what happens when we just pack up and go elsewhere. The good times are already at hand. Where is the future? Again, how do I make right wrong? How do I expose something [more]
Every Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 I go to high school. The school is in Wedding, in a grand old pre-war building, with echoing halls, fluorescent overhead lights, and Koreans who can’t find their classrooms. I ignore their beseeching looks – I’m late to class myself – and take [more]
The aim is to aid curators towards an increase in gender neutral exhibitions. A celebration of female artists. And to name such a project is tricky. Does Jessie work?
I recently attended a meetup in the center of San Francisco. The focus of this gathering was to learn about the 3D printer world. The evening’s speaker list featured a couple of young startup CEOs. Meetups are a big deal in Silicon Valley, not only for the tech [more]
Buzzfeed today reported that Glenn Greenwald—together with the filmmaker Laura Poitras one of the journalists who were contacted by Edward Snowden and who broke the story on the NSA’s surveillance—is leaving The Guardian to join a new media venture, ostensibly funded by eBay’s founder Pierre Omidyar (as reported by [more]
I am shocked at how cheap Brecht has become. The price reduction on his book is insane, from 1280,00 Euro to 249,00. You could never do that with a Philip Lim sweater, just reduce it from 300 USD to 50 USD, unless it had a huge hole or [more]
These days, my grandfather spends his days sleeping and reading. Sometimes he smokes a pipe and has a bit of whisky. At some point in the afternoon, someone pays him a visit and my grandfather converses with his guest. But most of the time, he sleeps. His last [more]
We know that Maurice Blanchot, rather than making the subject disappear, thinks it as the scene of infinite self-deconstruction, so that its new way of existence [referring to Nietzsche and Foucault] is that of “disappearing.” By undelimiting it toward the outside, he renders it the subject of the [more]
Yes the idea behind 60pages is to post something every day. And so far I could keep up with that. Except on these days when you are out in the middle of nowhere and basically have to live without the “comforts” of a working mobile connection. Yesterday another [more]
