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NOSTALGIA

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Bringing the old and new memories together, feeling the nostalgia… The blog Dear Photograph makes you take out your old photos from the boxes and visit the places where they were taken.
‘I wish climbing up was as easy as the sliding down…’

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YOU KILLED ME FIRST

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course [...]

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PROTESTER 2.0

Sunday, January 8, 2012

2011 was the year of resistance. After revolutionary movements and occupy waves, it is the protester the Time magazine declares as the person of the year. The accompanying essay by Kurt Anderson gives an interesting insight.

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ALL THAT I AM

Friday, December 9, 2011

Lost for words so I’ll mention some words that I’m reading… I am really enjoying Anna Funder’s first novel, All That I Am. I also really enjoyed her first book Stasiland which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in 2004. I would even say that All that I Am is one of my favourite [...]

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Hammer and sickle disappear from central Berlin

Monday, November 21, 2011

Aeroflot throws its iconic Berlin signage out with the trash
One of the last hammer and sickle emblems in Berlin has disappeared from its prominent place in the centre of the city.
The hammer and sickle – the symbol of communism and the Soviet Union – was removed from most public buildings across the former [...]

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STASILAND

Friday, November 18, 2011

Our friends at Ein Magazin über Orte recently published their latest issue dedicated to Berlin, and I’m really happy that they asked to include a few images of a series that I started working on quite a few years ago (and since then shamefully neglected), on the city’s layered past, in this case its East [...]

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A SPECIAL ON TIME TRAVEL

Friday, November 11, 2011

Nerdy magazine Wired’s US edition features a special on time travel this month. One article examines Haruki Murakami’s novel 1Q84 which was just released in the English translation. Murakami creates a “bizarro version” of 1984 and Wired compares it to the real 1984 as it happened.

Moreover, there’s an interview with Stephen King about his latest [...]

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Nazi Decoration

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

A new online database documents the vision for nazi Germany as accumulated for “Die Großen Deutschen Kunstausstellungen” 1937-1944 in Munich. Making the images and files publicly accessible opens up opportunities for researchers to explore the eclectic imagery of  “the new era” as postulated by Goebbels and his fellow loons.
www.gdk-research.de (in Germanic tongue only, obviously)

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‘The Readymades’

Friday, October 21, 2011

John Holten’s ‘The Readymades’ has been a silent companion during the last 6 weeks and the back-and-forth 6000 kms travelled during that time. Nevertheless, it was not until recently arriving in Paris airport, city where coincidentally the novel begins, that we started a proper and pleasurable conversation.
The novel takes upon the story of John Holten, [...]

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history and imagination

Friday, September 9, 2011

The International Literature Festival Berlin has kicked off with an impressive program of 180 events over 11 days.
Tonight Javier Cercas reads from and talks about his latest book The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination. Read Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ excellent review in n+1.

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