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Berlin, 19. Oktober 2018

Berlin, 16. Oktober 2018

Sad news | Japanese composer and violinst Takehisa Kosugi has died, according to the Merce Cunningham Trust (New York). His many collaborators included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, David Tudor, Steve Lacy, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Takashi Kazamaki, Riri Shimada, Akio Suzuki, Yuji Takahashi, Michael Pugliese, Danny Davis, Peter Kowald, and Sonic Youth.

Takehisa Kosugi (1938-2018) | The Japanese violinist, avant garde composer and Fluxus member died on 12 October aged 80 | thewire [dot] co [dot] uk | Link

Takehisa Kosugi · Lovely Music | lovely [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 13. Oktober 2018

Berlin, 8. Oktober 2018

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Berlin, 5. Oktober 2018

Environment/Climate Change

IPCC Report | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change · Global Warming of 1.5 °C | report [dot] ipcc [dot] ch | Read

There’s one key takeaway from last week’s IPCC report | By Dana Nuccitelli | theguardian [dot] com | Read

World 'nowhere near on track' to avoid warming beyond 1.5 °C target | By Oliver Milman | theguardian [dot] com | Read

We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN | By Jonathan Watts | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Here's what you can do | By Matthew Taylor | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 3. Oktober 2018

[Der Mann am Haupthebel] | Beuys (Andres Veiel, 2017) | 21:45 | arte [dot] tv | Link

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Negativland (These Guys are from England and Who Gives a Shit) | Sonorama | clocktower [dot] org | Listen

Berlin, 1. Oktober 2018

Berlin, 22. September 2018

Obdachlosigkeit | BVG | Winter

Es geht noch zynischer. Die BVG will im kommenden Winter nachts keine U-Bahnhöfe mehr für Obdachlose öffnen. | taz [dot] de | Lesen

Offener Brief an Dr. Sigrid Evelyn Nikutta (Vorstandsvorsitzende und Vorstand Betrieb der Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, BVG)

Offener Brief (19.09.2018) · download [20 KB]

Berlin, 20. September 2018

Berlin, 18. September 2018

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Berlin, 17. September 2018

Berlin, 16. September 2018

Anarchism | John Zerzan | Age of Grief (2009) | theanarchistlibrary [dot] org | Read

John Zerzan | Silence (2007) | theanarchistlibrary [dot] org | Read

johnzerzan [dot] net | AnarchyRadio | Link

Berlin, 14. September 2018

Anarchism | rogue element | You Can’t Rent Your Way Out of a Social Relationship (2004) | theanarchistlibrary [dot] org | Read

'Be realistic, demand the impossible.' — Simon Critchley

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Berlin, 12. September 2018

Italy | Treno di John Cage (1978) | 40th anniversary of 'John Cage 1978 Train' will be celebrated next October 13 and 14 | johncage [dot] it | Read

Berlin, 6. September 2018

Environment | Birdlife International | State of the World’s Birds 2018 | birdlife [dot] org | [pdf] · download [9 MB]

[Biodiversity is in decline across the world, with unsustainable development degrading natural habitats and driving species to extinction.]

Berlin, 30. August 2018

Berlin, 27. August 2018

Öffentlicher Raum | Verdrängung | S-Bahn Berlin | Arnold Schönberg:

Atonale Musik als Waffe | Verdrängung durch Musik in Neukölln | taz [dot] de | Lesen und Lesen

Arnold Schönberg | kuenste-im-exil [dot] de | Link

Arnold Schönberg | Immigration card | Image

Berlin, 23. August 2018

The Complete John Cage Edition – Volume 49 | The Piano Works 9 – First Recordings | moderecords [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 7. August 2018

Three sketches for sculpture [Gouache on paper, 2018] · Galerie öffnen

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Die Zukunft, die wir wollen, muss erfunden werden. Sonst bekommen wir eine, die wir nicht wollen. — Joseph Beuys

Berlin, 5. August 2018

Environment/Climate Change | NYTimes Magazine special issue | Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change | By Nathaniel Rich | Read

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Bureaucracy | Deutsche Gründlichkeit | Behördlicher Umgang mit NS-Opfern | taz [dot] de | Lesen

Zahlungen an NS-Opfer | 1.500 Euro für erlittenes Unrecht | taz [dot] de | Lesen

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Anarchism | Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-first Century | By Andrej Grubacic and David Graeber | theanarchistlibrary [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 30. Juli 2018

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Music | Lou Harrison: Documentary Project | By Eva Soltes | harrisondocumentary [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 28. Juli 2018

Environment | Interview with Dr. Michael E. Mann [Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State University] | loe [dot] org [Boston, MA, USA] | Listen

Michael E. Mann | michaelmann [dot] net | Link

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— Emma Goldman/Ausbeutung der Massen —
Wie können die Massen zulassen, dass die wenigen sie ausbeuten? Die Antwort lautet: Indem sie verführt werden, sich mit ihnen zu identifizieren. — E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime, S. 90

Berlin, 26. Juli 2018

Environment | These six species are about to be sacrificed for the oil and gas industry | By Jake Bullinger | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
Gray wolf (Canis lupus)
Delta smelt (Hypomesus transpacificus)
Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis)

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Environment | Almost all world’s oceans damaged by human impact, study find | By Damian Carrington | theguardian [dot] com | Read

(...) Huge fishing fleets, global shipping and pollution running off the land are combining with climate change to degrade the oceans. (...)

Berlin, 22. Juli 2018

Shinobu Hashimoto (1918-2018) | Obituary | theguardian [dot] com | Read

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Berlin, 17. Juli 2018

life/art trouble | Exhibition catalog (2014) | [pdf] · download [16 MB]

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TWENTYTWENTY Installation (2015) | Statement [pdf] · download [72 KB]

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Cageware · The Revolution of Life and Language Vol. 1 (1997) [a study on John Cage's relationship with language and literature] · Self-published as a DTP-venture, with contributions by Wolfram Kiepe and George Henry Koehler © 1997, 2018 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

Part one [pdf] · download [1.5 MB]
Part two [pdf] · download [1.5 MB]
Part three [pdf] · download [2.2 MB]
Part four [pdf] · download [1.0 MB]
Part five [pdf] · download [1.1 MB]
Part six [pdf] · download [368 KB]
Part seven [pdf] · download [3.4 MB] [on inquiry, contact]
Part eight [pdf] · download [3.9 MB] [on inquiry, contact]

Berlin, 16. Juli 2018

Four Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now | By Jaron Lanier | thriveglobal [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 1. Juli 2018

Stanley Cavell (1926-2018) | By Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books | Read

Berlin, 17. Juni 2018

Provence | voyage:

Berlin, 13. Juni 2018

Provence | voyage:

Berlin, 31. Mai 2018

Berlin, 27. Mai 2018

Interviews | 'By the way, what's Fluxus?': Jon Hendricks on the Formation of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection | By Kim Conaty, Jon Hendricks | post [dot] at [dot] moma [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 23. Mai 2018

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard. — Philip Roth, The Professor Of Desire (1977)

Philip Roth’s Early, Unhappy Days in the East Village | bedfordandbowery [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 16. Mai 2018

Giraffe Man [Fotografie, New York, 1991] | TWENTYTWENTY [four]

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St. Louis | Matt Marks, Cutting-Edge Composer and Musician, Dies at 38 | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

[Matt Marks, founding member of the contemporary chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound | Link]

Berlin, 15. Mai 2018

Environmental degradation, fracking, radioactive pollution:

How Trump's EPA Is Moving to Undo Fracking Wastewater Protections | By Sharon Kelly | truth-out [dot] org | Read

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New York | Glenn Branca, Composer Who Blended Genres Loudly, Dies at 69 | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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N.Y. / Brooklyn | Prominent lawyer and environmental activist David S. Buckel dies after setting himself on fire in Prospect Park | nytimes [dot] com | Read

He Called Out Sick, Then Apologized for Leaving This World | By Liz Robbins and Jan Ransom | nytimes [dot] com | Read

David Buckel: friends mourn LGBT lawyer who self-immolated | theguardian [dot] com | Read

David Buckel: Urban Community Composting: How to Build a Windrow [Red Hook Community Farm] | Video [10:17]

Berlin, 14. Mai 2018

Dave Winer on the open web, blogging, podcasting and more | internethistorypodcast [dot] com | Link | [...] | Listen

Dave Winer | davewiner [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 10. Mai 2018

THE STONE | How to Be a Prophet of Doom | By Alison McQueen | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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New York | 'Bring Down The Walls' | Creative Time / The Fortune Society | Link

Berlin, 7. Mai 2018

THE STONE | ‘Transparency’ is the Mother of Fake News | By Stanley Fish | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 4. Mai 2018

Berlin, 26. April 2018

Ludwig Wittgenstein (* 26. April 1889 in Wien; † 29. April 1951 in Cambridge)

Eine Hauptursache philosophischer Krankheiten - einseitige Diät: man nährt sein Denken nur mit einer Art von Beispielen. — Philosophische Untersuchungen, §593, S. 164

Berlin, 21. April 2018

Unter dem Motto 'Berlin trägt Kippa' ruft die Berliner Jüdische Gemeinde für Mittwoch, den 25. April zu einer Solidaritätsaktion auf. Zu der Kundgebung vor dem Gemeindehaus Fasanenstrasse um 18 Uhr sind alle Berlinerinnen und Berliner eingeladen. | tagesspiegel [dot] de | Lesen

Berlin, 19. April 2018

Emmanuelle Loyer, Lévi-Strauss - Eine Biographie. Aus dem Französischen von Eva Moldenhauer (2017) | Suhrkamp | Link

Berlin, 15. April 2018

Antisemitismus und Judenhass wird in Deutschland von Institutionen wie dem 'Bundesverband Musikindustrie (BVMI)' gefördert, und von der Politik toleriert.

Antisemitismus. Aus der Mitte gewachsen | Von Georg Diez | spiegel [dot] de | Lesen

'Echo' für antisemitische Rapper | Von Jens Balzer | taz [dot] de | Lesen

German Jewish Leader Slams Rap Song for Auschwitz Reference | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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Book: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi · Zakhor - Jewish History and Jewish Memory (1996) | washington [dot] edu | Link

Berlin, 13. April 2018

75. Todestag von Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) | bauhaus100 [dot] de | Lesen

Berlin, 12. April 2018

Yom HaShoah/Holocaust Remembrance Day | Two Friends Who Escaped from Auschwitz and Warned the World | tabletmag [dot] com | Read

Theodor W. Adorno | Erziehung nach Auschwitz (1966) | zeit [dot] de [1993] | Lesen

Theodor W. Adorno, Gesammelte Schriften in zwanzig Bänden; Band 10: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft. Prismen. Ohne Leitbild. Eingriffe. Stichworte | suhrkamp [dot] de | Link

Buch: Rolf Tiedemann (Hg.) · Theodor W. Adorno. 'Ob nach Auschwitz noch sich leben lasse.' Ein philosophisches Lesebuch (1997)

Berlin, 11. April 2018

Books | Geoff Dyer Takes to the Streets With Garry Winogrand | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 9. April 2018

Berlin, 6. April 2018

N.Y. / Brooklyn | Cecil Taylor, Pianist Who Defied Jazz Orthodoxy, Is Dead at 89 | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 5. April 2018

Art Politics: This expansion of professional space is a result of another theme that I take to be distinctly contemporary, and that is that artists, in all media, no longer feel obligated to wait around until the established institutions, that is, the certifying agencies, 'discover' them. Instead, dancers establish their own showcases, poets their little magazines, visual artists found co-op galleries, in part to say that they will not wait around, they will not take exclusion from the mainstream sitting down. The rise of alternative institutions in every art is thus of a piece, and together they constitute the most radical, most promising development in our professional lives. — Richard Kostelanetz, On Innovative Art(ist)s (1991)

N.Y. / REGION | The Bibliomaniac of Ridgewood [Richard Kostelanetz] | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Richard Kostelanetz | richardkostelanetz [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 4. April 2018

N.Y. / REGION | In Harlem, Mourning Another Historic and Cultural Marker [St. Nick’s Jazz Pub] | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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Infinite | By Bradley Dowden | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy | iep [dot] utm [dot] edu | Read

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. — Jorge Luis Borges

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Environmental degradation, anthropogenic climate disruption:

Thanks to Climate Disruption, Earth Is Already Losing Critical Biosphere Components | By Dahr Jamail | truth-out [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 25. März 2018

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New York | Gary Lincoff, 75, Dies; Spread the Joy of Mushrooms Far and Wide | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

New York Mycological Society | Gary Lincoff (1942-2018) | newyorkmyc [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 22. März 2018

Berlin, 20. März 2018

John Cage | David Seidner Archive | icp [dot] org | [Foto]

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Technology | Politics | Surveillance capitalism [eye, apparatus, machine] · Link

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zettel · piece of paper [slips]

Berlin, 18. März 2018

Berlin, 17. März 2018

'(...) Distraction has become a commercial and political strategy, and it amounts to a form of emotional violence that cripples people, leaving them unable to gather their thoughts and overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy. (...)'

Berlin, 15. März 2018

Douglas Rushkoff | Team Human | Ep. 74 Damien Williams 'We Built It From Us' | Listen | via pippa [dot] io

[Damien Williams, interdisciplinary thinker and technology philosopher.]

Berlin, 14. März 2018

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Cambridge [UK] | Stephen Hawking Dies at 76; His Mind Roamed the Cosmos | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary by Roger Penrose | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 13. März 2018

Berlin, 12. März 2018

[Group of Four Trees; sculpture by Jean Dubuffet]

Berlin, 11. März 2018

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'(...) Social-media firms are agents of the much broader system of surveillance capitalism, wherein user data is harvested and sold to advertisers. (...)'

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The Global Uprising for a More Equitable and Humane Labor Force | By Annelise Orleck | truth-out [dot] org | Read

Book: Annelise Orleck, 'We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now' The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018)

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David Byrne | Reasons To Be Cheerful talk | Jan. 8, 2018 | Video [58:36]

David Byrne: ‘I’m able to talk in a social group now – not retreat into a corner’ | By Dorian Lynskey | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 8. März 2018

New York [public transportation] | Bus service in crisis | As Subway Crisis Takes Up ‘So Much Oxygen,’ the Buses Drag Along | nytimes [dot] com | Read

The New York Times | Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries | [Ida B. Wells (1862-1931); Qiu Jin (1875-1907); Mary Ewing Outerbridge (1852-1886); Diane Arbus (1923-1971); Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992); Sylvia Plath (1932-1963); Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and, and ...] | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 7. März 2018

John Dos Passos | 'Manhattan Transfer' | Neuübersetzung [Dirk van Gunsteren] | rowohlt [dot] de | Link [Meisterwerk]

Berlin, 6. März 2018

[James Joyce] | Hunter Dukes | Ulysses and the Signature of Things | mdpi [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 4. März 2018

Berlin, 3. März 2018

Berlin, 2. März 2018

another fucking Nissan (2018) · download [60 KB]

Berlin, 1. März 2018

New York | Raymond Danowski, Stockpiler of Poetry, Is Dead at 74 | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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Stay away from the machinery of the modern world. It will ruin your imagination. It will shape a heart break and make demands of their own kinds. — William H. Gass (1924-2017)

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Hand in the circle showing the location of the planetary influences on the palm [Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres, 1531] | vergrössern

Berlin, 25. Februar 2018

2x20 Words (partition) · download [56 KB] | Piece for two voices (2018)

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Guns (Then) (1991) by Negativland [Richard Lyons, Mark Hosler, Peter Conheim] | Video [08:09] [discogs Info]

Berlin, 20. Februar 2018

The Music of Harry Partch | clocktower [dot] org | Info | Listen [58:56]

[Sonorama 2004-2006, produced by the composer Elliott Sharp. Art Radio WPS1.org was the Internet radio station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and the Museum of Modern Art.]

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Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy. | Noam Chomsky interviewed by Christopher Lydon. | [The Nation. June 2, 2017] | chomsky [dot] info | Read

Berlin, 18. Februar 2018

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(...) forget the politiciAns / they aRe / on The / mOon when they saw we were / no longer Voting / thEy left (...) — John Cage, 'Overpopulation and Art', 180-85

Berlin, 15. Februar 2018

asa nisi masa [poem] · download [64 KB]

Berlin, 13. Februar 2018

Nur noch 2272 Tage bis zum Ende des Homo sapiens ...

Robotics Laboratory | Boston Dynamics [SoftBank] | Hey Buddy, Can You Give Me a Hand? | Video [0:45]

Berlin, 12. Februar 2018

Berlin, 11. Januar 2018

Climate change/Trump | Nearly a year into the Trump administration, mentions of climate change have been systematically removed, altered or played down on websites across the federal government... | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 9. Januar 2018

Harry Partch (1901-1974) | ubu [dot] com | Listen

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Berlin, 8. Januar 2018

New York [South Bronx] | Tim Rollins [artist and educator] Dies at 62; Turned Bronx Teenagers Into Art Stars | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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New York | John Zorn: Live at The Greene Space [2009] | Video [04:01]

Berlin, 7. Januar 2018

'What has the greatest collection of humanity and IQ and financial capital been brought together to accomplish?' Scott Galloway [New York University professor] asked the crowd. 'To save world hunger? To create greater comity of man? I don’t think so. … Their singular mission, simply put, it’s to sell another fucking Nissan.' | Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism | By David Dayen | prospect [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 6. Januar 2018

Libraries Under Capitalism: The Enclosure of the Literary Commons | By Gus Bagakis | truth-out [dot] org | Read

[Libraries are shifting from public service organizations to business and profit models that lead to the destruction of a public space.]

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New York | Robert Mann, a Founder of the Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 97 | Obituaries | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Speak the Music - Robert Mann and the Mysteries of Chamber Music | Video [04:26]

Berlin, 1. Januar 2018 [New Year's Day]

if time [Saint Augustine] (for two female voices) · download [76 KB]

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Is the Age of the Artistic Recluse Over? | By Megan O'Grady | T MAGAZINE | nytimes [dot] com | Read

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