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Molten Lead
Today’s issue of the taz (die tageszeitung) republishes an article by Uri Avnery, who analyzes from within Israel, how there was never a real ceasefire, how a cruel experiment of maximum endurance of misery was put on a whole population under the eyes and with the help of the whole world. He describes, how …
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Cité Soleil / City of the Sun
The winning photo for 2008 comes from 21-year-old Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, the youngest person ever to win the competition. The picture comes from a slum in Port au Prince called the “Cité Soleil,” or “City of the Sun.” (via spiegel / unicef link)
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America’s Change
Visualization of Obama’s Victory Speech >>> see source page
.. and as it has been an historic event let’s also link to this visualization of Martin Wattenberg – the site History Wired, a visualization of a selection of objects from the Smithsonian Museum. (This was built in collaboration with Judy Gradwohl at the Smithsonian.)
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assume the fetal position ….
Today I came across an article in in the german newspaper FAZ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) which offers a read-worthy, though kind of bitter review on the heritage which the current president of the US will leave behind to all of us. As looking back and recounting the distortions caused over the years within the …
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Habermas explores the post-secularist society
In a recent article for the german Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, which luckily got translated by sightandsign.com, Habermas contemplates about religious developments and tendencies, the tradition of tolerance, multiculturalism and the notion of ‘post-secularism’: ... what interests me in the present context is the question of whether a secularist devaluation of religion, ...
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.. more on Berlin: when things cast shadows ahead
.. but pretend to avoid them .. like the current send-outs for the upcoming Berlin Biennale with its title announcement ‘When things cast no shadow’.
One gets a slight fear that may indeed be programmatic for the entire show, unless one eventually might be more successful in getting information when contacting their ‘secret … -
Medea alone – interesting, yet ….
‘Medea’ the old myth of the furious woman, passionate, betrayed, full of revenge .. has been reworked by numerous writers and theater plays, but among the more interesting interpretations are surely the one of C.Wolf’s polyphone ‘Medea. Voices’ and Heiner Müller’s text, which he had straightened down to the essential staff.
Stripped down further …