control / out of control
Currently a film about the legendary post-punk group Joy Division gets a lot of attention in Britain and elsewhere, which now swaps also slowly over here: On May 18, 1980 the world was the target of two natural disasters. Mt. St. Helens blew her top, spewing a pyroclastic cloud miles into the air and laying […] Read More
Auf der anderen Seite / The Edge of Heaven
Film maker Fatih Akin gets a lot of credit here in Germany at the moment, and that is for sure what he deserves. As the magazine quantara.de outs it the ideas and views transported in his newest film ‘Auf der anderen Seite’ (The Edge of Heaven) – are indeed able to be Transcending Prejudice and […] Read MoreMedea 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 to […] Read MoreThe 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 Ayaan […] Read Moreinside insight view
“Honorable Doctor, I am sending with this, 3 page drawings. Thank you so much for the paper. Take a look at the letter if you have time… I have decided upon – Träume u. Schäume (Dreams and Foams) – or Schweisstropfen (Drops of Sweat) as a title. I hope you see the picture better than […] Read Morepicidae – breaking through the wall / ZONE INTERDITE – unveiling some blind spots
A cool project currently has been set up and continues developing to deliver access to blocked and censored sites, which have been blocked for political reasons, via so called ‘pici-servers’. … The World Wide Web, the nervous system of a simultaneous communication and the platform for global data exchange, is quite a diverse heterogeneous formation. […] Read More