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Monthly Archives: August 2010

ransoming the commonplace

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

We went to the lakeshore and listened to the foghorns. They bawled melancholy over the limp silk fresh lilac drowning water. But Humboldt responded most to the old neighborhood. The silvered boiler rivets and the blazing Polish geraniums got him. He listened pale and moved to the buzzing of roller skate wheels on the brittle [...]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Monday, August 23, 2010

Today is a special day for us: on August 23rd, 2005, we launched our very first issue featuring Carsten Nicolai at our friends at Pro QM bookstore in Berlin, with an afterparty into the wee hours at KMA bar. Today, mono.kultur is turning five.
Without wanting to become sentimental, who would have [...]

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THE POETIC FACTS

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Through ‘It’s Nice That‘ I got to know Michael Crowe’s stories. Here you have one.

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R.I.P.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

A few hours ago our beloved Christoph Schlingensief passed away.
We hope that his autobiography’s title – As Beautiful as Here Heaven Can Never Be – won’t come true!

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SAVE THE DATE

Friday, August 20, 2010
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THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

The other day I was sitting opposite the legendary Volksbühne theatre with a British friend who seemed a little puzzled by the building, asking where the entrance was – if you know the monumental façade of the theatre, a slightly absurd question. ‘Right behind the columns,’ I answered, but I had to admit there was [...]

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IDEA BOOKS & NIEVES SUMMER STORE

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Idea Books in collaboration with Nieves returns to The Front Room at St Martins Lane on Monday 16th August for a four week only Summer Store.  Summer Store will include a wide selection of Nieves titles, new and out of print zines, special editions, posters, pins and bookmarks, as well as an extension of Idea [...]

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SUMMER JEST

Monday, August 16, 2010

Embarking on the mammoth project of tackling Infinite Jest by the late and great David Foster Wallace (which was published in German almost exactly one year ago, by the way, with the translation taking up six years…) – if you’re fortunate enough to have a few weeks of summer holidays left, then this should keep [...]

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FOR A LANGUAGE TO COME

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Ever since I saw it at the Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art exhibition at the Getty in LA, I have dreamed of owning this book. Cornerstones of the Provoke era in Japanese photography, Takuma Nakahira’s grainy, off-kilter, unfocused, and high-contrast images of Japanese street life really did formulate a new visual vernacular for 70s image-makers. Though he [...]

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THE POETICS OF SPRAWL

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Dropping in a few days: Danielle Dutton’s fantastic S P R A W L – check out an excerpt on the BOMB podcast.

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