mauer – mur – wall
The french filmmaker Simone Bitton has made a silent, though insisting interogation on the situation created through the continuing construction of the israeli ‘fence’ in her film ‘mur’ (film website) It is an eternal scene. From far away, the camera shows buildings made of white stones, a minaret, and maybe a church; and the camera […] Read More
Mind the Map – a symposium
UPDATE on Mind the Map – as the other day find was just a sticker with a nice slogan – here now further info: Under the leadership of Marina Gržinić, Günther Heeg and Veronika Darian, an international group of academics and young theoreticians from eastern and western Europe are elaborating ideas of exchange and communication […] Read Morethrough the city
… let me find some nice reminders .. Read More
borderline academy
… is blogging at borderline.org and allows thus to follow to some extent the events of fadaiat via the net .. In a way the netphilosoph Hakim Bey and the anthropologist Marc Augé talk and write about the same thing when they formulate the concept of “No Places”. Places which are “between”, places where the […] Read Morevictimisation, stigmatisation, exclusion …
– what we do to others Artur Å»mijewski’s replay ‘repetition’ – currently shown at the Venice Biennale – follows the famous Stanford Prison Experiment and equally to the analysis he excerpts from his experiment of ‘repetition’, it draws an actual line on its website through a link of collected publications on the recent abuse of […] Read More
reframing history of science
Patricia Fara’s title Pandora’s Breeches: Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment looks ‘beyond’ the official described scenes and sheds light on the women behind ‘great men’ in the world of science – at least during periods of the 18th century when the female part of society still had access to the labaratorium as it […] Read Morearte pour Sartre
arte tv due to Sartre’s 100 birthday shows Sartre on Sartre a rare film document of a 3 hour long interview in 1972 with the brilliant intellectual, who calls himself modestly slow and not intelligent, but a dissecting thinker… excerpts: part 1 / part 2 / part 3 (will open in real player) further: Pierre-André […] Read Morenice and easy – though systematizing differently
.. not intended to write on that – but as not having my usual internet set-up at the moment – I was that nicely surprised by delicious the new convenience in having the tags displayed and easy to select at the post-it site. Hopefully that will help someone like me to keep the own categorizational […] Read More