some insight – No Forbidden Zone in Reading?

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NEW LEFT REVIEW publishes in its recent issue a longer essay by Zhang Yongle on the history of the important and influential intellectual Chinese magazine Dushu. Reason for the review is delivered by the current (July 2007) publication of a six-volume Chinese edition featuring the most important texts from 1996 to 2005, a time in […] Read More

Tibet – suggestions by Some Chinese Intellectuals

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Twelve Suggestions for Dealing with the Tibetan Situation by Some Chinese Intellectuals Editor’s Note: On March 12, a group of Chinese intellectuals including prominent dissidents, lawyers, rights activitise and writers circulated a petition supporting calls for an independent investigation in Tibet by the United Nation, and urging the government to reconsider its policies in Tibet, […] Read More

MITopencourseware

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MIT still offers on their opencourseware website free access and download to some of their courses’ material – including syllabus, readings and assignments. The material is free accessible and has permission to be reused and modified while giving credit to the source. It is understood that it cannot be used for commercial use .. etc…, […] Read More

What are you doing?

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I guess it is really time to ask – as to find out where time is vanishing to … Interestingly that became not only a personal question, but a very common one, which fills enire websites – so called micro-blogging services like twitter, jaiku and others. A lot of extending applications and some as nice […] Read More

In the Valley of Elah

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Finally I got curious enough to take a look at the film, – In the Valley of Elah -which here in Germany gets fairly good critics, but is said to have bumped in US and UK. First of all .. it is a film definitly worth seeing – not at least due to his main […] Read More

IWD – International Women’s Day

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According to UN definition .. International Women’s Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic […] Read More

Zanan

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A move back a bit in time, because I think these news are still relevant and need to be spread. As well many in the west, like myself before some research, might not really be aware what Zanan is or better was – and how sad it is that this magazine, working along the borderline […] Read More

The Browning of Britannia

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.. so my last post was about conspiracy – yeah, and it felt the last days as indeed there was one: an extraordinary amount of work came together with disasterous computing experiences. Not only my computer broke down now already like 2 weeks ago, also other machines I had to work with stopped responding in […] Read More

unpredictable conspiracy

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.. no conspiracy here .. but unpredictably just too less time at the moment to research and write .. nevertheless .. as a quick update .. Tonite starts the club transmediale – this year’s event named Unpredictable – and in a few days then also the transmediale 08 under the title conspire ( Read More

Read de Beauvoir, don’t put it down ..

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… ends today’s essay by Barbara Vinken in the taz, and I guess she makes a still actual point here. ‘faces’ of Beauvoir from Simonedebeauvoir.kit.net Not only is it good to recapitulate how women had to fight (like for these nowadays ‘common’ rights like voting, access to universities, .. etc) … but also to learn […] Read More

Documentary: House of Saud

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These days I had the luck to see the documentary ‘House of Saud’ by filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri. A BBC/ARTE/PBS/NHK production, which first has been aired in 2004. Saudi Arabia—one of the United States’ most important allies for more than sixty years—is home to vast oil fields and a wealthy, often extravagant, monarchy. Until 9/11, most […] Read More