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ALTERNATIVES IN PRINT: THE WHITE REVIEW

Thursday, April 19, 2012

The White Review revives that ancient and venerable tradition of print again: the literary journal – and it does so with style and chuzpe. A savvy and addictive mixture of intellectual rigour and modern pop culture, the Review effortlessly presents theoretical essays, short stories, art criticism, poetry and interviews side by side, all held together [...]

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I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It’s always a nice diversion to pass through McSweeney’s Internet Tendencies every now and then for some challenging thoughts.

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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS ACCORDING TO BOB DYLAN

Saturday, December 31, 2011
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VERBAL EXPLOSIONS Á LA BADIOU.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Taking inspiration from the philosopher Alain Badiou, We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves is a statement by John Maus to the current forms of mass communication. Watch his verbal explosions and manic gesturing live, accompanied by Gary War!
John Maus & Gary War
Saturday, Dec 03, 2011 / 20 p.m.
Berghain
Am Wriezener Bahnhof
10243 Berlin

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Adorno Constructions, Inc.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Company Background
“Frank Adorno III founded Adorno Construction in 1988, one of the structural concrete construction leaders. In addition to doing structural concrete construction, Adorno Construction, Inc. also creates decorative concrete surfaces.”
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WO STEHST DU, KOLLEGE?

Friday, December 3, 2010

On the occasion of the first 20 years of the Berlin-based magazine Texte zur Kunst a symposium organized by Isabelle Graw and André Rottmann asks the question of art criticism’s potential as social criticism. When the magazine was founded in Cologne in 1990 the methods of ‘Social Art History’ promised to present contemporary art in [...]

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IMPENDING DOOM

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

After the recent fad of apocalyptic films, television and video games such as The Road, Fallout New Vegas, the so-so Book of Eli, and the excellent new AMC series The Walking Dead, had all had effects on my psychological wellbeing and possibly making me believe that the end of the world is imminent. As always [...]

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L’ÉCOLE DE STÉPHANIE

Monday, April 19, 2010

Under the strict authority of director Stéphanie Moisdon questions and thoughts around artistic practice and visual culture will be addressed during three days of school at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. L’école de Stéphanie is a place of projection, of creation and of language aiming for the exchange and mediation of knowledge, skills [...]

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100 Years of Technical Existence

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Max Bense would have turned 100 years earlier this week. Even if his reconstructive post-war modernism does not appeal to today’s postmodern mainstream, and there is not a single hit on wired.com, Max Bense’s work is still worth a glimpse. That’s why the Center for Arts and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM) has put up an exhibition [...]

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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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