shades of grey
New reasons to think about my announced, but yet unpublished statement on German’s inability to find a balanced position regarding the recent Middle East conflict, seems to evolve around the finds – and final media attention – to the usage of cluster bombs in populated areas. Human Rights Watch had already shortly after the beginning […] Read More
city of collision
The publication of the book title ‘City of Collision‘ (pdf with list of content) yesterday evening at the Academy of Arts, Berlin, has been accompanied by about two hours of talks and disscusions which attempted to focus on the recent threats and consequential developments in connection with the specific spatial configuration of Jerusalem. Among the […] Read More
‘ordinary’ losers and differences in media coverage
Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University and openDemocracy’s International Security Editor, summarizes impressions for the first days of the Israel/Lebanon ceasefire and states some observable, but easily overlooked, facts: What was scarcely mentioned by the politicians were the “ordinary” losers. In Lebanon there were 1,100 people killed, more than 3,600 wounded and […] Read Morea film about invisible people
What war and displacement at any time does to people is the underlying theme of Andrea Å taka’s film ‘Das Fräulein‘. The film’s central characters are three women, each of them in a different way connected to a different part of the former Yugoslavia – nevertheless I understand these relations as a more general background as […] Read Moresome collected links
On Long Sunday appeared a few days ago this video letter from Beirut. It made me now search for some other readworthy posts and links while still thinking about the german impossibility to address Israel critically (sure .. historically grounded .. etc.. BUT .. – more to come) Michel Bérubé on Suez deux? and the […] Read More
moving through walls
Eyal Weizman analysis the ‘moving-through-walls‘ concept of the IDF, by interviewing militars on their reading and understanding of specifically Deleuze’s and Guattari’s concept of the ‘smooth’ and the ‘striated’ space: … I asked Naveh why Deleuze and Guattari were so popular with the Israeli military. He replied that ‘several of the concepts in A Thousand […] Read Moremore letters – recent and historic
A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East (July 19, 2006) which has been published in Le Monde last week .. a Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers published on electronic intifada (again via Newsgrist) – more information for reference of the mentioned Arab Filmfestival can […] Read Morejust redirecting
newsgrist has a bigger section titled ‘Letters from Lebanon‘ … for img link and bigger size go here Read More
silence is betrayal
I was searching for a while a text titled ‘Silence is betrayal‘ across which I came already some time ago, but could not find it in english. The text published on medico.de is written by M.Zimmermann who demands for intellectual voices in times of crises – what he meant back then by that was not […] Read More
mindless repetition of paranoid patterns
An article published today on washingtonpost.com titled ‘ Read More
update and upcoming
The July issue of Le monde diplomatique I mentioned a few posts below is online now … and still worth reading with its specific focus on Palestine and Lebanon. A second reminder here goes for the also formerly mentioned Dictionary of War which with its second edition to take in Munich the next weekend. Read More