lure of past Times and change in present POV

The Times newspaper opened their archive beginning with 1785 publications as a digital storage and made it for an introductory period freely accessible: For any historical writer, the prospect of being able to search 200 years of The Times at the push of a button from anywhere in the world is both thrilling and …

Augusto Boal: Theater and sensitive thinking

During the last week the renown theater director and writer Augusto Boal held an event on invitation of the berlin biennale. It was a very special evening introducing himself through a longer speech, and then followed by some pieces with invited actors, his son and the participating audience to give a a lively impression …

The voices of Küba

Berlin’s Tanas Gallery (Gallery for Contemporary Turkish Art) shows currently the prize-winning 2004 work “Küba” of Kutlug Ataman.
The installation of 40 interviews on old-fashioned TV models, each supplied with an individual 2 second hand chair, creates a chorus of voices each telling their own story. In front of the monitor one is solely confronted …

The Metro

Magdy El Shafee’s The Metro, a just recently in Egypt published graphic novel was confiscated by the authorities last week a few months after its publication.

some insight – No Forbidden Zone in Reading?

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 …

What are you doing?

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 …

unpredictable conspiracy

.. 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 (