looking back on 2009 ….

via NYT

‘an eye for an eye ….’

.. but may be I’ll take two – hope you don’t mind ….

.... that at least is the impression I got, when I finally had the chance to see Avi Mograbi’s documentary Z32. Nevertheless by the filmmaker’s doubts, which have been mixed into the film as questioning songs, it all together might – ...

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 …

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 …

May 1, 2010

After the Yes Men / NGO last’s year coup of handing out a fake version of the New York Times now the german anti-globalization group ATTAC imitated the weekly magazine ‘Die Zeit’. The fake pages can be downloaded as pdf or read online (sorrily only in german).img via dw-world.defurther links: reuters: indiamediaspace_09 link to …

While I Sleep

The current exhibition ‘While I Sleep’ of Shilpa Gupta, a young indian artist known for her multi-layered works, seems to draw from an interesting field and ambitious sources.
Shilpta Gupta generally is know for her open minded usage of media, which attempts to put the content into a relevant relation. Gupta not only targets …

The illusion of victory

Daniel Barenboim gives a New Year’s comment on the guardian online edition and makes clear that: ... The developments of the last few days are extremely worrisome to me for reasons of humane and political natures. While it is self-evident that Israel has the right to defend itself, that it cannot and should not …