I get energy from other people. I sincerely wish that I could get it walking through the woods all by myself. There is something quite cool about that and I envy people who appear to have that ability. It is a lost cause and one of my deepest [more]

As Told by the Holy Woman in Her Own Words A Hundred or So Years after the End of the World The baker drained his cup noisily, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down like a piston rod. He set it down with a bang. “You may be [more]

Verfolgen, ändern, stornieren oder zurückgeben: Hier geht’s los. Und hier weiter: Unterwegs. Erleben Sie den virtuellen 360° Rundgang!! Am ersten Dienstsitz in Berlin arbeiten gut 450 Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, am zweiten Dienstsitz im Bonner Palais Schaumburg etwa 30. Ahoi, nicht traurig sein!! Denn Deutschland kommt gebräunt zurück! Hat Leben [more]

We went to B.Bs, meaning Bertolt Brecht’s grave today, since it was just across the street. I have never been there before and I was surprised that he has just this little stone and a grave that looks like Prada designed it. Really simple, protestant, NOT flashy, whereas [more]

Thinking about Paris means thinking about many things but probably the Louvre comes quite quickly to your mind. Some month ago, 200 guards and surveillance agents working in the world’s most visited museum went on strike to protest the growing number of often violent pickpockets. The Louvre brings [more]

MoL went awol yesterday, fugue-state driving, mit dog, through the wind and the rain, ending up some place neither of us recognised. The dog is troubled these days, perhaps sensing that dogs don’t really belong in a museum of loneliness. She has been nervous since the weekend of [more]

A very old GIF animation made in 1998 for Angela Bulloch Tell me – what do you see?

Yes, day before yesterday I also posted a picture of an elephant. And yes I would like the things for you to see here as diverse as possible. And yes that also includes not to repeat, especially in such short time. However there are things that can’t be [more]

Anton-Saefkow-Platz  #3 The Pakistani vendors don’t like to be photographed. The Vietnamese don’t care. The whole area is somewhat paranoid, isolated, afraid of bills, of officials, afraid of people at the door. 

Saturday night, Sarah, John, and I talked about game theory and how it had changed their lives and relationships. Treating life as a game and oneself as a player was a liberating realisation, said Sarah. John explained remote manipulation of behaviour. Earlier, we had talked about August Strindberg’s [more]

We were running through Tokyo yesterday. We started at Shibuya crossing where you can run through hundreds of people and then we went up the Aoyama Dori, the blue (ao) or green mountain (yama) street (dori) as in Japanese ao can mean blue or green, up to the [more]

By empty, I mean an elevator with nobody else in it but you. Virginia Woolf once sung the praises of a room of one’s own; she may as well have been speaking of elevators: tiny rooms with a wall of illuminated buttons and, more often than not, a [more]

There is a Canadian company called D-Wave Systems which has claimed for several years now to build actual quantum computers. Nebulous mystery surrounds their claims, given that it is extremely difficult to determine whether their D-Wave 1 and 2 contraptions are actually making use of the quirky thing that is quantum reality. [more]

Too much information? I hope it doesn’t scream self obsession, that wasn’t the original idea. It was more an experiment. One of each test was taken today, the other one a month ago. I was convinced it couldn’t be accurate due to one’s mood. And sure the numbers [more]

In a letter to Roger Laporte dated September 24, 1966, Maurice Blanchot describes his scène primitive as the experience of a depopulated sky, confronting an infinity, which he outlines as an empty infinity: “I was a child, seven or eight years old, I was in an isolated house, [more]

Vintage Obama: Many folks in the US still call themselves Birthers and are convinced that BHO was born in Kenya and not in Hawaii, back in 1961. All they need is the birth footage, preferably in 8mm, to Q.E.D their theory. I gave it to them. The baby I’ve [more]

Unter Centralia, Pennsylvania, brennt seit 1962 Kohle. Der Brand frisst sich kreuz und quer unter das Dorf, Strassen brechen rauchend auf, flüssiger Teer quillt vulkanig. Die Kohle wird noch einhundert bis zweihundert Jahre brennen, sagen die Fachleute und haben keinen anderen Rat an die Bewohner, als das Dorf [more]

Chapter One: GOING EAST. Twenty-One. I have to admit that I am not so fond of that number. Ok, it contains three times the whole wholesomeness of the holy seven in itself, and of course: Not only the far ancestors of us Jesus-killing-Jews felt the holiness and roundness of [more]

When I think of Michael, I think of him sitting in front of a school or what it exactly was, I don*t know, he has his dark blue down jacket on and jeans and brown desert boots and he has this book by Einar Schleef in his hand [more]

What I call the subject stretches into the depths of an insubstantiality, which proves to be the transcendental form of the subject. The subject delineates the scene of an elemental emptiness and, in relation to it, every ontic-empirical subject experiences its reification – as if life means asserting [more]

at least for me. I was socialized by an educational television series with a bunch of longhaired people in skin coloured body suits that came from the future and/or from planet Gamma. And on Gamma ruled some kind of eco-commune-Alain-Badiou-projection. Nonetheless les Gammas only spoke Gamma (and had [more]

Shall I point my finger to the book publishing or to the music industry? Or to what? Shall I really write about this? I usually try to be supportive, particularly when someone has written a book, composed or produced a music album. And, if not, I try to shut [more]

How on earth can I know? How can I know that all the Hollywood movie bad boys stopped smoking? How would I know if the main female character just had a nervous breakdown? And that she is mentally unstable, if she is not lighting a cigarette with trembling [more]

“You are so beautiful….I am going to make you a sandwich!”

Ahead of Twitter’s IPO, rumors spread across town that it is planning to expand it’s offices on Market Street to the adjacent building. The current offices are in a sketchy district, on the outskirts of Tenderloin. The developments would inject large amounts of money into the neighborhood. Will [more]

General Idea’s Test Pattern: T.V. Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea, 40×30.2cm, 1988 General Idea The Standards Fibre-based badge 1988 – 1991

There is one law: every Sunday morning things come to an end, disappear, are missed. Perfume, ink for the printer, deodorant, rice-milk today; last Sunday, toilet paper, basil, green chai, the Sunday before, rice-milk, washing powder, beer. Never Saturday, when shops are still open. Always Sunday morning. Without [more]

In 1946, when there isn’t any food available in the city, a large part of Tiergarten is divided in plots for sustenance farming. Photographs of people harvesting vegetables in front of the Reichstag or cutting hay in front of the Victoria convey a sense of closure. In 1949 [more]

MoL makes map reading errors. MoL gets a lot wrong. Previously it said Downton Abbey would never introduce a racial element. In response a black jazz singer has now been introduced. MoL was complaining about film critics and yesterday one of the few exceptions, with a mind of [more]

… die Rache-Szene. Das Rache-Wort. Das geht in die Knochen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GB6Jaas3o0

“Il y a quelque chose dans la parole dont on n’a pas parlé et qui est pourtant, eh… nous occupe tous, quand nous faisons du bruit et quand des sons sortent de notre bouche et que nous essayons de donner un sens à ces sens que la, eh…, [more]

It’s the time of the year when the city slowly but steadily shifts into the pre winter mood. Durga Puja is about to end, Eid al-Adha is about to start and Diwali will come soon. The air is filled with the smell of blooming frangipani trees and the [more]

Sometimes I am late adapter, sometimes not. In the case of Miley Cyrus I am not sure. I guess I am late, but then again, what does that mean if you see a girl on a wrecking ball swing through a studio full of plastic walls? When was [more]

Schön, dabei zu sein. In einer Energiebehaftung und einem Denken voller Selbstbeschleunigung und Präzision. Das gilt für vor allem für S-EIN Denken: das Risiko einzugehen, ebenso präzise wie kopflos zu sein. Aufgepasst: Es gibt keine 1 Wissenschaft, keinen 2 Tanz, keine 3 Politik, keine 4 Kunst, keine 5 [more]

Alright Alright Alright

This morning I had a coffee with my friend Daggi, we went to this super coffee place called “The Barn” in Mitte. Basically everyone here seems to be american. It was pleasant and relaxed, a good sign. The city is on a good way and is leaving the [more]

Being in Japan means being a stranger confronted by three questions: 1) Where are you from? 2) What are you doing here? 3) When are you leaving again? 1) Being from Switzerland means you have a very good image (chocolate, cheese fondue, Heidi). 2) Being here for a [more]

Once upon a time I was falling in love, but now I’m only falling apart http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEWb7zhx-VU

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