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Berlin, 30. Dezember 2017

Berlin, 22. Dezember 2017

Abbott and Costello's signature routine | Who's on first? (1945):

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LOU: Well, then, who's playin' first?
BUD: Yes.
LOU: I mean the fellow's name on first base.
BUD: Who.
LOU: The fellow playin' first base for St. Louis.
BUD: Who.
LOU: The guy on first base.
BUD: Who is on first.
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Berlin, 13. Dezember 2017

Berlin, 17. November 2017

Thoreau’s 200th Birthday.

Berlin, 31. Oktober 2017

Today our very un-freedom is sold to us as freedom. — Slavoj Zizek

Dictionary: freedom = the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. The power of self-determination attributed to the will; the quality of being independent of fate or necessity. Unrestricted use of something : the dog is happy having the freedom of the house when we are out.

Berlin, 25. Oktober 2017

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Berlin, 23. Oktober 2017

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Berlin, 24. September 2017

Back in town.

Berlin, 5. September 2017

John Cage | * 5. September 1912 in Los Angeles; † 12. August 1992 in New York City.

Berlin, 4. September 2017

N.Y. | John Ashbery, a Singular Poet Whose Influence Was Broad, Dies at 90.

Berlin, 28. August 2017

Paris | French actress, filmmaker Mireille Darc dies at 79.

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He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful. — Don DeLillo, Underworld (1997)

Berlin, 21. August 2017

Every wave in the universe has its own integrity. — R. Buckminster Fuller

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Berlin, 20. August 2017

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Berlin, 16. August 2017

(...) The dream of the democracy has turned into a nightmare as more and more people are considered expendable and subject to the whims of a market that reduces them to the status of merely surviving rather than getting ahead. The failure of neoliberalism's promise of social mobility, equal opportunity, employment and privatized dream worlds gave way to regressive taxation, off shoring, deindustrialization, the slashing of social provisions, the dismantling of public services and the rise of right-wing populism. Desperation, isolation and a sense of abandonment coupled with the collapse of democratic institutions and public spheres have produced a new collective fatalism all over the globe. (...) — Henry A. Giroux

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Berlin, 8. August 2017

I've come to the conclusion that the closer you get to big cities, the more you realize that the intelligentsia there is rigid, jaded. Living in Paris or in New York is like having a passport for stupidity. — Interview with Morton Feldman, conducted in 1967 by composer and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur

Berlin, 3. August 2017

I think we have to embarrass the government out of existence . . . by not voting. By not accepting their offer of letting us vote. By refusing any connection with the government. Thoreau said: ‘Government is a tree, its fruit are people. As people ripen, they drop from the tree.’ — John Cage

Berlin, 1. August 2017

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Berlin, 26. Juli 2017

Paris | Anne Dufourmantelle (1964-2017) | Philosopher Died Trying to Save Children From Drowning.

Anne Dufourmantelle and Jacques Derrida, Of Hospitality (2000)

Berlin, 21. Juli 2017

VISIBLE MESSAGE | visible

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Berlin, 19. Juli 2017

Berlin, 15. Juli 2017

Walter Benjamin | * 15. Juli 1892 in Berlin; † 26. September 1940 in Portbou/Spanien.

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Jacques Derrida | * 15. Juli 1930 als Jackie Derrida in El Biar/Algerien; † 8. Oktober 2004 in Paris

I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect. — Jacques Derrida, Paper Machine (2005)

Berlin, 9. Juli 2017

(...) Die Auslöscher sind am Werk, die Umbringer. Wir haben es mit Auslöschern und mit Umbringern zu tun, an allen Ecken und Enden verrichten sie ihre mörderische Arbeit. Die Auslöscher und die Umbringer bringen die Städte um und löschen sie aus und bringen die Landschaft um und löschen sie aus. (...) — Thomas Bernhard, Auslöschung. Ein Zerfall (1988) S. 113

Berlin, 7. Juli 2017

I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality. — Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings (1976)

Berlin, 2. Juli 2017

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Hubble's diagram [cosmic expansion]

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Berlin, 25. Juni 2017

(...) Kunst sollte begriffen und genossen werden als eine nicht kommerziell verseuchte Welt, in der wir daran erinnert werden, dass wir Geist-fähige Kreaturen sind. Wo das passiert, da wird das Hören zum Beobachten. Und wenn ich beobachte, sage ich nicht mehr, das ist gut oder das ist schlecht. Ich sage auch nicht, das ist langweilig oder interessant, sondern: was ist das? Und dabei beobachte und entdecke ich auch mich selber. (...) — Helmut Lachenmann (2016)

Berlin, 24. Juni 2017

Harry Partch [born in Oakland, CA on June 24, 1901] | Life is too precious to spend it with important people. — HP

Berlin, 20. Juni 2017

The dark side of progress | argo [four] [Album: Argonauts, 5-disc set, re—mastered & re—issued 2015/2017]

Berlin, 16. Juni 2017

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen, 1941, Werke 8, S. 506: Die Menschen, die immerfort ›warum‹ fragen, sind wie die Touristen, die im Baedeker lesend, vor einem Gebäude stehen und durch das Lesen der Entstehungsgeschichte etc. etc. daran gehindert werden, das Gebäude zu sehen.

[Als Baedeker wird ein Reiseführer für Reiseziele im In- und Ausland bezeichnet. Er erschien erstmals 1832. Namensgeber: Karl Baedeker, 1801-1859]

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It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse
Making life easy by making it worse
'My mask is my master,' the trumpeter weeps
But his voice is so weak as he speaks from his sleep
Saying: 'Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?'

— Soft Machine (1968)

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[Saunter] Walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort.

Berlin, 15. Juni 2017

Anarchism, art and politics | Crispin Sartwell:

How to Escape. Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism (2014) | vergrössern

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Berlin, 14. Juni 2017

Reality is impertinent, indefatigable, and inescapable. — Crispin Sartwell

Berlin, 12. Juni 2017

Berlin, 10. Juni 2017

Shoes/Polypores — [Photographs, 2015/2016/2017] · Galerie öffnen

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Berlin, 1. Juni 2017

simply another rag · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [one] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | © 2017 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Q: What do you consider the most important tool of the genius of today?
A: Rubber cement.

— Donald Barthelme, Forty Stories, p. 18 [The Genius]

Berlin, 31. Mai 2017

Berlin, 29. Mai 2017 [American holiday: Memorial Day, Decoration Day]

Charles Ives | Decoration Day for Violin and Piano [1912, arranged c. 1919]

Berlin, 28. Mai 2017

The Right to Privacy [1890] [Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis] | Surveillance [eye] [Photographs, 2017]

Berlin, 24. Mai 2017

Berlin, 19. Mai 2017

Ich will mein Eintrittsgeld zurück für all die Abende, an denen mir irgendwelche Fundamentalisten und Fanatiker, irgendwelche verhinderten Oberlehrer und Schwachmaten die Welt erklärt haben. — Herbert Fritsch

Berlin, 15. + 13. Mai 2017

Rosa Parks house · Galerie öffnen

Rosa Parks [1913-2005] [Montgomery Bus Boycott; Alabama; Rosa Parks refused to ride on segregated buses]

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Berlin, 11. Mai 2017

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Franz Hessel, Ein Flaneur in Berlin [Spazieren in Berlin] (1929)

Berlin, 9. Mai 2017

There are certain formulas, word-locks, which will lock up a whole civilisation for a thousand years. — William S. Burroughs/Daniel Odier, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1989)

Berlin, 8. Mai 2017

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Alles in der Welt ist schön, aber der Mensch erkennt die Schönheit nur dann, wenn er sie selten oder aber aus der Ferne sieht. — Vladimir Nabokov, Götter [Die Venezianerin, Erzählungen 1921-1924]

Berlin, 4. Mai 2017

Berlin, 2. Mai 2017

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Control | Surveillance [eye] [Photographs, 2017]

Berlin, 1. Mai 2017

HCE [Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker] | James Joyce | Finnegans Wake, Faber and Faber, London (1939)

Haroun Childeric Eggeberth 4.32
Here Comes Everybody 32.18/19
Homo Capite Erectus 101.12 /13
H. C. Enderson 138.16
Huges Caput Earlyfouler 197.8
etc.

Berlin, 30. April 2017

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Neptune: 'god of the sea' from Latin Neptunus, son of Saturn, brother of Jupiter, the Roman god of the sea [later identified with Greek Poseidon].

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Berlin, 17. April 2017

Untitled · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [three] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

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Berlin, 12. April 2017

Silence | Silence · project page

silence | war
art | silence
silence | cave
inhuman | silence
(...)

Berlin, 8. April 2017

Athen ist der Anfang eines Europas, das sich immer mehr dem Chaos nähert. — Poka-Yio

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We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us - it consumes us, and for that reason we glorify it. — Onookome Okome

Berlin, 3. April 2017

Untitled · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [four] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

TWENTYTWENTY · Projektbeschreibung · download [60 KB]

Berlin, 21. März 2017

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Concrete jungle · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [four] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

TWENTYTWENTY · Projektbeschreibung · download [60 KB]

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Berlin, 20. März 2017

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Bruno Latour | 'Does the Body Politic Need a New Body?'

(...) It is a great paradox of our present political situation that just at the time when the deepening of the ecological mutations shows the limits of the notion of sovereignty as it has been exerted by nation-states, it seems that everywhere people are agitating for a return to the safety of borders — some, in this country in particular, wish to build a high wall along its southern boundary. The European Union, this most audacious, subtle and complex set of inventions to overcome the limitations of sovereignty, is being slowly dismantled, once again, by a return to the apparent safety of strictly enforced borders. (...) — B.L.

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Berlin, 17. März 2017

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Berlin, 15. März 2017

Berlin, 14. März 2017

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Berlin, 9. März 2017

First of the Finnegans Wake’s thunder-words:

The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, London (1939) | 003.15-18

Berlin, 7. März 2017

Harry Partch | The Diamond Marimba; Partch first built it in 1946 [Foto] | Cloud Chamber Bowls; first built in 1950 [Foto]

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Berlin, 6. März 2017

Berlin, 5. März 2017

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Berlin, 2. März 2017

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David Revill, The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life (1992); p. 278/279

Berlin, 22. Februar 2017

Jannis Kounellis, Leader in '60s 'Poor Art' [Arte Povera] Movement, Dies at 80.

Berlin, 21. Februar 2017

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Berlin, 16. Februar 2017

Branches/Äste [Photographs, 2016 — Berlin]

Berlin, 15. Februar 2017

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Ghosts [good and evil] [writing] · Foto

Berlin, 10. Februar 2017

I never made a mistake I couldn't make. [...] My sculptures fall over and my thoughts fly away. — George Herms

Berlin, 6. Februar 2017

Berlin, 3. Februar 2017

Aus Protest gegen die Entlassung von Dr. Andrej Holm durch die Humboldt Universität besetzen seit Mittwoch Studenten das Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (ISW) in Berlin [Universitätsstraße 3b].

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Berlin, 23. Januar 2017