Desire for Walling
There is a pretty good article and mainly link-collection over on we-make-money – generally a very interesting blog – about facts and impact of walling. The article centers around the ‘Desiring Walls’ lecture by Wendy Brown (audio file on resistnetwork), which analysis the globally evolving phenomenon for walling. Regine from we-make-money has carefully collected the list of walls Wendy Brown provided and published it together with an extensive link collection.
Though for the psychological aspects of walling, which is already hinted by the use of the term ‘desire’ in the headline of the talk one has to listen to the podcast file. Wendy Brown offers quite some insight into the reasonable aspects of the wish for protection, but also on its negative excluding sides and which impacts the refrain of the dealing with circumstances might bring with it.
I have to admit that because of the divergence between the post and the
Islam in Europe / arabs and terrorism
Hm …. there is hope for a change after Obama’s recent speech which the german magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ announced as A ‘NEW BEGINNING’ IN CAIRO, but certainly it won’t work without looking into one’s own preconceptions.
While in NYC the NYPL & The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) present “ISLAM IN EUROPE - Insult: Fractured States?” as a three-evening symposium on June 9, 10, and 11 that gathers prominent, cross-sector speakers from diverse disciplines and the Muslim diaspora to share country-specific perspectives on Muslim communities’ integration in European society, here in Berlin the ZMO invites for June 15 to rethink …....
| What is said about… ARABS AND TERRORISM by Bassam Haddad – USA 2006 - OmE 90’ Berlin, Kino Arsenal, 15 June 2009, 8 pm Screening and Talk with the Director and Sinan Antoon |
