Waking up and realising within seconds that it’s one of those days that will never have happened. A tight chest, and not from a binder. A feeling of deep sadness, of a loss that has no object. Circling around nothing. A black hole in the chest. Every breath is a bloody burden and tinnitus dizziness […]
A german version of this post has been published here and tl;dr version will be published in print, in Analyse & Kritik. “this is not a book about the alt-right. It is an anti-Left polemic.” Jordy Cummings “‘the centre’ – as a proclaimed area of shared, sensible assumptions about the values, needs and possibilities of […]
In his great piece “Unmournable Bodies”, which I wholeheartedly recommend reading, Téju Cole writes: We may not be able to attend to each outrage in every corner of the world, but we should at least pause to consider how it is that mainstream opinion so quickly decides that certain violent deaths are more meaningful, and […]
Cash: the procedure of buying in which the exchange of goods for money is horribly visible, the spending of money most painful and the consumer profile least traceable. No wonder cash gets marketed as hard, inconvenient and unsocial. Poor cash. [insert image of person at the discounter checkout spending minutes searching for coins. teh horrorz! lolz] […]
I consider Cyborg Unplug to be a positive, tactical response to a growing and widely felt social issue, one born from the technologically-enabled abuse of mutual, human respect. Julian Oliver in Blinders For Google Glass Cyborg Unplug, the anti-surveillance device by artist Julian Oliver has been widely written about over the last days. Mainstream press […]
“We are Undercover Colors and we are the first fashion company empowering women to prevent sexual assault.” Undercover colors is a product that a team of four young men wants to throw on the market: Nail polish that changes its colour after contact with date rape drugs like Rohypnol or Xanax. The idea is that […]
A few days ago german GQ has started a campaign called ‘Mundpropaganda‘ (Word-Of-Mouth). It’s a photo series of straight celebrity men kissing. Lots of my gay friends seem to like it. Some because sexy. Some because yay, allies. As ever so often I’ll be the spoilsport. Let me pick a sentence from the GQ editorial […]
In a slightly glasshouse/stone-move sample-happy Beastie Boys sue the makers of a parody of their song ‘Girls’ that was made for girls-empowering toys by GoldieBlox, in a quickly gone viral video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpe3Up9T_g Someone suggested on twitter last night that the reason could be that the Beasties do not want any of their songs in advertising. […]
So Merkel’s and a lot of other world leaders’ phones have been spied on for more than 10 years. (german / english) Erm… so what?! Trying to monitor people in leading positions of government or economy is espionage in the traditional sense. Nothing new here. I find it hard to put into words how blatantly […]
I hate getting all worked up about current politics but sometimes (actually more and more often) it happens even to me. Then I have to start reading up on subjects cause I haven’t regularly read the papers and that confronts me with my ignorance and thus makes me even more grumpy. Not a nice situation. […]