D.I.Y. – Handbook for Change

As we speak about change today – why not take a look at the ‘Handbook for changing our World’? ‘A Radical Guide to Ethical and Sustainable Living’

Climate change, resource wars, privatisation, the growing gap between rich and poor, politicians that don’t listen. Massive issues, but how can we make any difference?

This book shows how
It’s …

Logical Aesthetics

Research as Cultural Practice has been addressed now for some time, but this work by gatescherrywolmark I came across the other day is really presenting its expression/result in form of an interesting and refreshing media piece.The visible traces of the past in the present provide the essential material from which the video, Logical Aesthetics, ...

Myth

A lot of positive things can be heard about the performances of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, but for myself I hadn’t had the chance to see one of his performances until saturday .. It was absolutly worth it and answering the already risen expectations.
The Moroccan dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui who works in …

The multicultural Issue

The multicultural Issue is the headline of a discussion series which developed over the last months on the signandsight.com website around the controversy how to deal and react to islamic traditions and views throughout Europe or more generally the West. Who should the West support: moderate Islamists like Tariq Ramadan, or Islamic dissidents like …

urgent re-evaluation needed

Back when I posted on Persepolis I already had been thinking if I should post on aryan description as the terminology for the Iranian people and point to the nowadays obsolete understanding of the usage of Aryan to mean “all Indo-Europeans” by most scholars. In central Europe and especially in Germany there is still …

addressing the reactionary present

Bruno Latour specifies in an interview blogged on Re-public his point of view of our approach in so called modernity ‘We never have been modern”, which was one of his earlier book titles:If science studies is right in erasing the divide between nature and society, it remains true that the readers of those …

ghostly appearances

... before now eflux joined in publishing the announcement of the latest exhibition at the Kunsthaus Dresden with an remark about a hype on ghosts – wood s lot had these great links on the blog (.. and I regret that I did not found the time to blog this draft earlier): from Youtube …