A distopic vision of a next future. The definitive decline of US, who still struggles for eternal youth.

Freedom of speech is one of the key issues in the current public debate and one that is becoming increasingly contested, given the steady erosion of civil liberties in many countries today. Denmark has always been at the forefront of the public debate on issues in relation to freedom of speech, but it has also suffered the so-called "trauma of free speech".

Installation : Bubbles made from water of The Morgue that was used to wash the corpses before the autopsy.

Video art : Ants, busy collecting confettis on the day after Rio's carnaval. The ants' movements create an image of a 'live-colored' dot-painting.

How Mushrooms can help Save the World.

Observations on bee-behaviour, by F.Huber, entomologist, 18th century.

a neighbourhood downtown Sao Paulo

I grew up with his last movies, had fond memories and just now by accident stumbled on his films again. Great, meeting again!

Investigation in the use of 'performance' in the cultural, economical and cultural field. "McKenzie demonstrates that this threefold paradigm operates to create powerful and contradictory pressures to 'perform - or else'".

For several decades, artificial life has studied the simulation of living organisms, particularly how some organisms interact with their peers, such is the case of ant colonies and other forms of swarm intelligence. http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/en/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/vida13/among.htm

“Among” is a sonic and luminous environment composition of articulated tube lights that represent the movements rendered by the observation of living ants in an antquarium. The tube light’s positions and luminous intensities generate a visual and sonic environment in the space where the installation is presented.

a classic! platons most important text is just really inspiring in many ways. the dialogues, the language, the idea, that only philosopher kings could truly rule the state- my favourite part of the text is the " Hoehlengleichnis"- platos allegory of the cave.

Article in the European Journal, La Lettre. About autonomy, slowness and an adequate dimension in mediteranean thinking. an attempt to understand the world by starting in the south- new perspektives for the future

the man, his music and what he said and wrote about it

A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Rob a réussi à construire une machine à faire des bulles de savon en utilisant des pièces de récupérations. Ce montage à base d’Arduino est facile à réaliser et peut faire le bonheur des enfants.

The book reflects how the artists operate within contexts touching upon community and social inclusion, dwelling and habitat, mobility and migration, ecology and recycling. It explores different methods of public participation and co-creation through workshops, pedagogy and collaborations. CHANCE ENCOUNTERS ARCHITECTURE THE GIFT CONNECTOR DWELLING ORTAWATER NEXUS

Body & Soul is regarded as one of the finest evocations of the experience of being a musician. An inspiring fictional novel about a musical child prodigy set in the 1940's. 500 pages you'll read in a few days.

Heartbreaking 2006 documentary film about the American musician Daniel Johnston. It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.

superb litigation series with exemplary witty rhetorics, and as painfully meta as it gets

how a clear-cut american wonderboy novel turns into a skin crawling haunting house allegory

The Georgia Guidestones is a large granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. In June 1979, an unknown person or persons under the pseudonym R.C. Christian hired Elberton Granite Finishing Company to build the structure.[3] A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. 2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity. 3. Unite humanity with a living new language. 4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason. 5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts. 6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court. 7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials. 8. Balance personal rights with social duties. 9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite. 10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature. (... wikipedia)

A book that inspires me although i didn't read it yet : apparently the book is already in the process of being translated into English. This site made me curious : http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/sloterdijk-you-must-change-your-life/ : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (...) If we are talking about changing the outside world, then it’s never a bad idea to take a look back and examine the past. Sloterdijk’s search for answers in the ancient world leads him to Greek philosophers although he is equally as willing to listen to Indian gurus, Kafka’s “fasting artist” as well as football coaches. (...) You Must Change Your Life is thus an “absolute imperative” – more absolute/totalitarian than Kantian categorical imperative, and is found at the very core of all religious thought and action. He who wants to change himself, must work on himself. Sloterdijk prefers a somewhat old-fashioned notion of “practice/discipline” because it speaks not of a simple change of products but of a transformation of self. And so Sloterdijk sets off in search of these practitioners and finds them in all walks of life, inside convent walls on beds of nails, but also increasingly today among professional athletes. He calls this human urge to outgrown oneself, to leave the basecamp and to reach the top of the mountain “vertical tension.”

(...) Freedom follows several members of an American family, the Berglunds, as well as their close friends and lovers, as complex and troubled relationships unfold over many years. The book follows them through the last decades of the twentieth century and concludes near the beginning of the Obama administration. (... wikipedia)

a wonderfull book about yoga

district in Kinshasa

The hope in uccelacci y uccelini Otherwise : i would have chosen for Jean Rouch

Japanese gardens inspire me because they have the perfect balance between nature and human interference, full of tranquility and peace, and examples of the endless beauty of nature

beauty created with the patience of 5 miljard years, and utterly underestimated by most of human species

Historian Blom visits the salons of 18th-century Europe and compares this "radical" Enlightenment with the more bourgeoisie, "soft Enlightenment" of Votaire, Kant, and other philosophers. Though Baron d'Holbach's uncompromising atheist writings are largely ignored today, his salon was once considered "the epicenter of intellectual life in Europe." Great minds of the time, including Diderot and Rousseau, gathered at his table.

This book brings together 12 conversations conducted by Christian Höller with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field. Interviewing Tariq Ali, Bill Ayers, Zygmunt Bauman, Paul Gilroy, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Lawrence Grossberg, Stuart Hall, David Harvey, Achille Mbembe, Meaghan Morris, Irit Rogoff, and Ella Shohat, Höller explores Cultural Studies and raises issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

"Dominant epistemologies that link knowing with seeing are not attuned to meanings that are masked, camouflaged, indirect, embedded, or hidden in context." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- and another text by Conquergood : 'Rethinking Ethnography : Towards a Critical Cultural Politics': ------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.open-frames.net/pdf/145-Conquergood_19xx__rethinging_ethnograohy.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- and a BONUS-track :'Bombay' by El Guincho : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://vimeo.com/15247292

(...) "To study the way with the body means to study the way with your own body. It is the study of the way using this lump of red flesh." (...)

One of the most interesting and inspired combinations of text/choreography and music I've seen in a few years

A very long novel that takes a while to read, but it's worth it

an endless stack of black-and-white photographic prints of clouds on a partly sunny sky, was sold well over the estimate for $1.6 million

sixteen handwritten pages by Joyce. In the free-form love poem, presented in the guise of a series of notes, Joyce attempts to penetrate the mind of a "dark lady", the object of an illicit love affair.

Biography van Blaise Pascal! Crazy!

Een miskend politiek meesterwerk van de grootste ( Ned vertaling Hans Boland!)

Novel by Philip Roth in which Roth's alter id 'Zuckerman' tells the story about Svede Levov. Swede Levov is the good boy for whom life is just great -- except that he's not. He is the good boy whose life turns to disaster -- as if that's what good boys were for, and only the bad boys go free. Or he is the good boy whom Zuckerman can imagine and mourn for only in this way.the story hinges on Swede's 16-year-old daughter, Merry, an only, pampered child, who has fallen in with a section of the Weathermen and blown up a rural post office, killing a doctor who happened to be mailing his bills. The time is 1968. But the novel revolves not so much around this scene as around what Merry has done, the deaths she has caused, and the absurd, irresistible question of how this respectable Jewish athlete and his Irish, former-Miss-New-Jersey wife could have given birth to this once angry, now dislocated, apparently reasoning, weirdly unthinking girl.

Film by swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson: 'man is his own enemy.and his own lover{...}In my films I try to tell important things through trivial events. Our life, mine as much as yours is in general very trivial and banal. But that's not bad. We shoudn't fear that.'

The Country of Last Things offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - one which is set in the future, but which is a chilling reflection of contemporary reality.

The September 2007 issue of Vogue magazine weighed nearly five pounds, and was the single largest issue of a magazine ever published. With unprecedented access, The September Issue, directed and produced by R.J. Cutler, tells the story of legendary Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour and her larger-than-life team of editors creating the issue and ruling the world of fashion.

'Beauty is power'

'Climate change is not a fairy tale'

Exhibition Catalogue. Museum Folkwang Essen

Forget everything else and be riveted as: – D. Graham Burnett & Sal Randolph propose a field guide to shredding – Barry Sanders remembers a forgotten gift from Derrida – Joshua Foer studies a thankfully obsolete memorization technique, accompanied by illustrations by Amy Jean Porter – George Prochnik recalls Italy’s most famous amnesiac – Alistair Sponsel speaks with Londa Schiebinger on forgotten herbal abortifacients – Peter Galison inspects Freud’s take on censorship, both wartime and psychic – Jeffrey Kastner & Sina Najafi ask Paul Connerton about his seven categories of forgetting – An artist project by Susan Hiller – And a portfolio of “Monuments to Forgetting,” proposed by artists John Beech, Liz Glynn, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, Eigil zu Tage-Ravn, and Olav Westphalen

Echo's Book assembles the writings and readings of the Symposium for Readers (Berlin, December 2007). Made of two adjacent volumes, the book consists of four parallel columns. It works as if the reader had two books opened next to each other. The right volume has on its outer pages six essays in their initial form – essays from Giorgio Agamben, Mary Kelly, Terre Thaemlitz and others. In correspondence the outer pages of the left volume contain excerpts from those chats that evolved around these essays during the symposium. Fragments of the readings and writings are echoed within the two inner pages, in the double space that presents itself at the centre of this book. Here the figure of Echo, repeating phrases once in a while, makes a text recognisable that has produced itself at the margins of the symposium.

Could have come through anytime, Cold lonely, puritan What are you fighting for ? It's not my security. It's just an old war, Not even a cold war, Don't say it in Russian, Don't say it in German. Say it in broken English, Say it in broken English. Lose your father, your husband, Your mother, your children. What are you dying for ? It's not my reality. It's just an old war, Not even a cold war, Don't say it in Russian, Don't say it in German. Say it in broken English, Say it in broken English. What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting for ? What are you fighting ...

published in "The Speculative Turn, Continental Materialism and Realism" (Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman, editors) re.press, Melbourne, 2011

... hang in, watch until the end ...

Under Milk Wood read by Richard Burton. Music by Cliff Martinez (film music from the new version of Solaris).

A essay film about value and consumption. About keeping, throwing and gleaning.

Quranic recitation.

Japanoise! The url refers to an album called 1930.

A classic I can't stop loving!

Derrida plays himself in this film by Ken McMullen and speaks about the figure of the ghost and the nature of cinema and representation.

Read before Travel!

free on Gutenberg.org

sci fi novel with the great idea that collective thought can alter the local laws of physics

an in-depth description of the workings of French administrative law, and the comparison of this system to the system of evaluation of events in science. inspires to analyze the cultural processes in parallels and differences to those two systems.