Archive for January, 2009


30/01/2009

KLOSTERFELDE
On Tobias Buche, Neil Campbell, Ulrike Heise and Dan Peterman for Frieze.


29/01/2009

FAREWELL
Stefan Zeyen’s short film of a woman looking back from a car, as she leaves you behind.


29/01/2009

FREEZE
The effect of trauma is precisely to freeze people in time.
Jacqueline Rose, LRB


28/01/2009

Te souviens-tu de ma tristesse
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28/01/2009

ARCANE ARSENAL
Magic – that arcane arsenal of techniques for pulling power down from the stars and up from the elements, based on a cosmic cat’s cradle of occult sympathies and antipathies.
Anthony Grafton, “But they burned Giordano Bruno!”, NYRB, 20/11/2008


28/01/2009

THE MADNESS OF DISTANCE
Do you recall the discussion between Durkheim and my father, at the École des Hautes École Sociales? Before they had even said a word, one sensed by their faces, their looks, their gestures, the distance that lay between these two men. One knew that such a discussion was sheer madness.
Guillaume De Tarde, [...]


27/01/2009

THE CAVORIST PROJECTS
On Kara Uzelman for Frieze.


27/01/2009

TEARS
Tear-stained eyes make sweet lips.
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parsifal, p. 143


23/01/2009

BEWARE
Beware of your mind, and take responsibility for yourself.
Suzuki Shoshan


21/01/2009

TUNNELS
A Foreign Policy photo essay on Gaza’s tunnels.