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VERY MONO

Monday, February 15, 2010

‘Collapse’ is a documentary that describes our civilisation on the verge of destruction. It follows the course of a single interview conducted over a few days in a basement somewhere in LA, during which Michael Ruppert – a former LA police officer and investigative journalist – sets out a bleak vision for [...]

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BURMA VJ

Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Best Documentary Feature category is one of the few redeeming elements of the commercial publicity machine that is the Academy Awards. Unlike the rest of the circus, this category usually gives due attention to deserving talent, and helps draw attention to burning issues.
Last week, the nominations for this year’s prize were announced. They included [...]

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OETTINGER TALKING ENGLISH

Monday, February 1, 2010

Let’s start the week with a laugh - the designated EU commissioner Günther Oettinger tries to speak english in a press conference… a little embarassing, but SOOO funny!!!

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PORN WORLD VS. REAL WORLD

Friday, January 15, 2010

Although TED might be known amongst most mono.blog participants, this is definitely worth another if not first visit.
Cindy Gallop (!) gives a lecture not only about porn vs. this thing called love but also introduces to her new web project Make Love Not Porn. It’s not that heard-a-thousand-times-and-999-times-even-better stuff but funny, plain and really real.
So, [...]

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MONO - LITH: GOOGLE vs CHINA vs WORLD WIDE WEB

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

In 2006 Google traded in their corporate slogan ‘Don’t be evil’ for a more flexible standard of ‘Look at the bright side’ when they accepted the Chinese government’s censorship regime upon their Chinese operation. They suggested that the benefits of increased access for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed the moral problems [...]

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Center for Political Beauty

Monday, January 11, 2010

The Berlin-based Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit) describes itself as “a group of performance artists trying to bring along a synthesis of human rights, postwar-societies, poetry, performance art and humanism.” Unfortunately, their website is only in German, and international press has failed to pick it up..
http://politicalbeauty.de

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NONE THE WISER

Friday, December 25, 2009

I’ve come to really appreciate Christmas, but mostly for the reason that it affords the luxury of time: time to sleep in, time to talk to people you have lost sight of for a while, time to read that issue of mono.kultur you never got around to finishing, time to think, time to kill time. [...]

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ABNORMALITIES

Friday, December 11, 2009

Pourquoi Israël from 1973 is Shoah filmmaker Claude Lanzmann’s first film (he’s also Chief Editor of Les Temps modernes).
International media attention was caused by an incident at b-movie cinema in Hamburg on October 25, 2009, where leftist groups violently prevented a showing of the movie, claiming it took a one-sided zionist perspective. Here’s an interesting [...]

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WORLD OF GIVING

Saturday, November 28, 2009

This is ostensibly the season of giving, so it is worth mentioning Jeffrey Inaba’s new book World of Giving, dedicated to exploring this cornerstone of human sociality. An architect and professor, Inaba researched, edited, and wrote the book with C-Lab, an ‘experimental research unit’ he directs, as an extension of their current Donor Hall [...]

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PRIMUS INTER PARES

Monday, October 19, 2009

For those among us who are not that familiar with Latin language, check this - in German only.
Rumor has it that a few Germans did not agree and that Mutti Merkel aka the chancellor rebuilt the order into the less bad swine flu serum. (!)

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