more letters – recent and historic

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A letter from Chomsky and others on the recent events in the Middle East (July 19, 2006) which has been published in Le Monde last week .. a Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers published on electronic intifada (again via Newsgrist) – more information for reference of the mentioned Arab Filmfestival can […] Read More

silence is betrayal

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I was searching for a while a text titled ‘Silence is betrayal‘ across which I came already some time ago, but could not find it in english. The text published on medico.de is written by M.Zimmermann who demands for intellectual voices in times of crises – what he meant back then by that was not […] Read More

update and upcoming

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The July issue of Le monde diplomatique I mentioned a few posts below is online now … and still worth reading with its specific focus on Palestine and Lebanon. A second reminder here goes for the also formerly mentioned Dictionary of War which with its second edition to take in Munich the next weekend. Read More

the world sits silent aside …

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.. and what one hears officially does not make it easy to find words of one’s own on what is happening between Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and its other neighbours these days … and it’s even harder to find some official lines which at least try to give some balance to that what is going on: […] Read More

weaving and lacing

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stand as metaphers for two interesting projects of CITA (center for information technology and architecture ) discovered via PLSJ: – weaver : Weaver seeks to explore the potential intersections between an intelligent surface and its inhabitation. As a collaboration between architecture and textile design, the aim is to explore the spatial potential of a continually […] Read More

in cinema now: Grbavica

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This year’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner ‘Grbavica‘ is starting this week in the cinemas here. The film unfolds its story around the traumatic impact of war rape for a muslim mother, who tries to hide that fact as well to herself and her daughter, as to the surrounding society, which equally tries to ignore post-war […] Read More

The emotional house

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Origanially coming along tropolism was the project description of implant matrix defined here as composed of “purpose programmed micro-controlled sensors and actuators that provide a mechanical response to user stimuli”. It is organized as a large organic array shape memory alloy (aka muscle wire) driven pores open and close as people touch sensors that are […] Read More