No. Not Deep Throat. We missed it. October 15th was the annual Ada Lovelace Day, honouring women in science, technology, engineering, and maths. Each year, it is hosted by a different institution – Imperial College London this year – and accompanied by a string of events. For those of [more]
On the train from Biarritz to Paris after the three-day-wedding-marathon. Exhausted, empty, hungry. It is a new TGV (train grande vitesse), a high speed train. The interior design changed recently, the colors and the shape of the seats. To me they look like orange and violet shark tails now. [more]
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World Martin seemed to be thinking hard. “I know of a venue,” he said finally, “that would allow you to bring your message to many, many people in [more]
Heute noch spricht Eric Koch ein wunderbares Deutsch. Wenn wir zum lunch sitzen bei Patachou, 1120 Young Street in Toronto, erzählt er mir in diesem Deutsch aus seiner Gegenwart. Und wie es zu der Gegenwart kam.
Epiphyte is a great word, also adopted by Neal Stephenson in his 1999 book Cryptonomicon as the trademark name of a corporation running a data haven for anonymous banking, electronic money and digital gold currency to fund the Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP), whose main server is [more]
It is a late night tonight, tomorrow, there will be a lot to talk about. Bonne Nuit.
A few people (at least two) asked if I post the speech I held last Saturday at a friend’s wedding in Tokyo. Not that I am famous for speeches, but I told everybody I met in the last two weeks (at least three people, what makes two a [more]
Rudi Gelbard is a great womanizer, he is about 70 years old and Rudi survived the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Being Jewish he was forced out of school at ten and was deported with his family at twelve. This morning he told me that his father tried to pretend [more]
Art was never anything other than an agreement with the fragility of its time. Art does not come from a stable situation; it is the experience of the instability of instituted reality. Art exists only as the experience of the porosity of the system of facts.
not the display. Only two days after predicted the M8 is back. After Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz there is still Schienenersatzverkehr, a bus stuck on Torstraße. Whatsoever, the M8 is back.
By self-assertion I denote the transcendence in immanence (not of immanence) characterising the subject qua subject.
As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World All the interest he showed made me very happy. Martin was the first person to show real curiosity about my indestructible mortal body, and so far he [more]
Hier, also unten als Link, die Auflösung vom verzaubert zauberhaften Winkelkanu gestern an selber Stelle – oder auch: Wir bauen eine neue Stadt! Mit Calvino ein Traum. Palais Schaumburg und andere Residenzen als Postensicherheiten des neuen Weltgeistes liegen momentan auf das Billigste monokular fokusiert in Limburg. Ablenkunstmanöver vom [more]
What is it about manhood? There is talk, there is envy, there is ambition, there are lies, there are misunderstandings, there is silence, there is boredom, there is food, there are women, there are friends, there are enemies, there is soccer, there is sex, there is the thing [more]
at least for me. Talking about Les Gammas and not really recalling the back-story (was Gamma a wooden planet like in Aliens 3? No, they had a wooden spaceship, right?) I remember this one line they were repeating: “Les Gammas n’existent pas.” Why? Why would they not exist? [more]
So who do I want to be? Not who I am, surely. (This is not to be confused with unhappiness though that may also be true.) I want to invent myself. We want to change the world at least make it different and as such have to form [more]
The MoL is wondering whether it shouldn’t shut down or at least retreat from view. Three years ago when it started there was nothing comparable. Two weeks ago it met by chance the founder of the Museum of Chance. Now all sorts of people are talking about “museums” [more]
In the first version of the text Iphgenia wrote about me for 60pages, she described me as “not as polite as she seems.” In the final version that part of the sentence had disappeared. Maybe out of politeness. Maybe because sadly I am as polite as I seem. [more]
“Bien sûr, je parle de moi et je peux même dire que… eh, la parole étant dans mon métier depuis beaucoup, beaucoup d’années, donc la parole m’a fait vivre. J’ai gagné ma vie en parlant. Et il n’empêche que à chaque fois que je parle j’éprouve un sentiment [more]
du kannst den post aber bearbeiten und sichtbar schalten – einfach das custom field empty löschen
Last week I was waiting for the light to turn at a crosswalk, listening to the new CHVRCHES album, when I felt that prickly sensation of being watched. I looked around and saw a boy, eight or so years old, dark hair, round eyes, staring up at me. [more]
Angela Merkel, die das Internet laut eigener kürzlicher Aussage noch nicht so ganz durchschaut hat, wird jetzt an ebendiesem nebulösen Ort als nerdiger Hipster wiedergeboren. Hipstermerkel, gesehen auf dem gleichnamigen Blog.
The light still feels early and fresh at 9.30am, nice October. Train just left Brussels. Heading to Antwerp. Central station has been hyped, so pretty happy that is my first stop. Antwerp Central Station
It’s a Sunday evening in late May and I am face down in my pretzel prawns at a small street restaurant in Kowloon, Hong Kong. I had spent the day on Lamma Island, losing ridiculous amounts of sweat and talking about snakes. The night before was spent aboard [more]
To love Antigone means to love this lie of love for which her name stands in the history of literature and theory. This love is itself literary. It produces its own singular law which is not binding for society in general. To love the lie of love is [more]
“let us work; work has the advantage, among others, of shortening our days and lengthening our lives”. definetely my days are too short. but let’s hope he’s right about the rest too. actually diderot was seventy when he died. not too bad for his time i guess.
Trapped in a prism, in a prism of light Alone in the darkness, darkness of white We fell in love, alone on a stage In the reflective age (Arcade Fire) http://vimeo.com/74355104
der wirkliche kampf ist das überleben des operndorfes… gedanken, die christoph begonnen hat in die realität umzusetzen.viel mehr als nur eine vision. es ist nicht nur ein glaube an ideen, sondern bereits seit drei jahren das umsetzen und reagieren. das findet in burkina statt,ist realität geworden. und das [more]
40 Sommer lang stand das Haus Lieb der Architekten Venturi und Rauch in Loveladies Long Beach New Jersey auf sandigem Grund. 1969, ein Jahr nach dem heissen Sommer 68 erbaut, stand es da inmitten einer Ansammlung namenloser Strandhäuser, die erst als Nachbarn dieses Hauses Lieb in ihrer [more]
Man muß sich beeilen, wenn man etwas sehen will, alles verschwindet… Paul Cézanne PHOTOS BY DANIEL MAYER If you want to see something, you have to hurry. Everything disappears. Paul Cézanne PHOTOS BY DANIEL MAYER
New Yorker’s Nathan Heller reports on San Francisco’s tech culture, in a thought provoking article: On how the ecosystem is funneling lots of talented people into lots of experiments On how San Francisco has become the capital of the three-business-card culture On how the tech space is moving [more]
Why are weddings so different to any other parties? People are doing things they would normally be ashamed of. They are loud, they are shouting, they come up with really stupid jokes as if everything would be permitted. Just for this very short time. The main goal is [more]
Kuhle Wampe was a tent colony of workers who lived on the southern shores of the Müggelsee. It was located near a cove where the water was always cold, even in the summer, the reason for its name: Kuhle Wampe, “cool belly”. The colony began in 1913 with [more]
On day 5 I went to see Prisoners a film by Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve, it is about various individual wars on God and of course it is also about delivering sustained tension for our entertainment. Jake Gylenhall who plays a cop who perhaps thinks he has the [more]