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Dissolved in water of a foul sewer
2008-08-19 01:04:00
My pains are inflicted by monsters in the shape of drops of waterIn those moments my smile fades away and disappears into the absorbing shadows of the past that always move silently behind meThe being in me parts and sadness then constitutes the new blood in my veinsNo, sadness would be too great a thing!How could I not understand that it is emptiness itself that steals my heart!It is no physical pain nor emotional loss. No, non of thatIt is me, myself, my being that is forced to be transformed into a mirror of someone I never metFlushed away in a rain of waterEvery grain of loveEvery dream that is and ever wasThe monsters around me move silently and are invisibleLike endless falling water they move their bodies without soundThey colonise me to take what I thought I wasI dissolve, while they take my remains in the abyss of a foul sewer where I too become another you
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God 2.0
2008-08-04 22:19:00
I do not see, I scan imagesI am an organic machine with unlimited flash memory In hyper-dromological speed I run through forests of yottabitsI do not save data but transfer my existence into other beings I know no place nor temporalityI am well beyond Out of sightOut of rangeOut of space Pure liquid numerical airDissolved in a flux of constant Dasein And now, now I am inside your brain

Ballard and Shanghai
2008-08-03 17:54:00
I am currently writing an article on Shanghai (or the transformation of Chinese cities from Communism to Post-Socialism) and while doing so I became aware of J.G. Ballard 's intrinsic relationship with the city. I googled further and so the motivation for writing his "Empire of the Sun" unravelled.Enjoy this BBC documentary which I found on Youtube about the writers experience of returning to Shanghai, after having left the city in 1946.

The Paintwash story of the Big, Pink, Flying Cow
2008-07-31 04:18:00
Do you know that pink cows can fly? You would not believe, but I saw one yesterday out of my window. Swear to God and 52 angels! A bloody, pink biiiiiig flying cow!I screamed to the cow: "what are you doing, cow?".He replied: "moooooooeee"I shouted angrily: "you are not supposed to fly, you are pink!"He responded anxiously: "moooooooeee"I was upset, he pretended not to understand me. As if I spoke in another language! I could not tolerate such a absurdity and spread my wings to also fly out of my blue window.This cow was different than other cows. His wings were much bigger and his eyes were almost the same size as my elephant ears! And I can assure you those are big (and sexy ;)) !!I asked again:"what are you doing cow, where are you going?!"He responded: "moeeeee moe moeee mooooeee!!!!""ahhhhh" I said and turned around. He could have told me earlier he was going for a paintwash!This was the paintwash story of the Big, Pink , Flying Cow, and if you dont believe me read the Bible it ...
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Reality?
2008-07-31 04:12:00
I am asleepBut then awakeor am I asleep?awake?asleepawakeI dont knowbut now I know that I dont knowIts betterNow I rest
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I see...
2008-07-29 04:05:00
two aliens behave quite sillyunder a moon of yellowMars says 'hello' and 'goodbye' to Venuswhile Jupiter counts the craters on Plutothe earth turns away and sighsthe sun comforts her with golden raysI have seen it all from my lazy chairthrough my blue coloured windows

Love poem
2008-07-24 01:17:00
Sometimes you can see the sun going down a littleIn a fraction of a second she seems to shiver and hold her breathNobody knows what causes this sudden disruptionMaybe it is a hesitation of the thermal radiation coming from her tachoclineOr maybe it is the supergranulation reprogramming its electromagnetic wavesOr perhaps it is Aton's fury finally erupting after old Egypt's betrayalOr maybe it is because she mourns for her child who died a sad deaht* of windShe perhaps sighs and then sinks a little to enforce her strength into the hearts of peopleWe do not know, but it sure is sad...*why I (mis)spelled it this way? Well because the big Internet G does not allow such words....
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Battle Royale
2008-07-09 16:10:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 8.0/ 10Plot: Forty-two delinquent students, three days, one deserted Island: welcome to Battle Royale . A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a new forum of reality television.The students are each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the dheaht*, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all dtie. The movie focus on a few of the students and how they cope. Some decide to play the game like the psychotic Kiriyama or the sexual Mistuko, while others like the heroes of the movie--Shuya, Noriko, and Kawada--are trying to find a way to get off the Island without violence. However, as the numbers dwell down lower and lower on an hourly basis, is there any way for Shuya and classmates to survive (IMDB)?*why I (mis)spe...
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Vampire Hunter
2008-07-06 15:30:00
Language: English/ Japanese subtitlesIMDB Rating: 7.8/ 10Plot: In the far distant future, vampires rule the night. But because of the fearless bounty hunters, their numbers dwindle. One such is D, a half-breed born of a human mother and a vampire father. He is hired by a father-son team to retrieve Charlotte, a lovely young lady, who was abducted by the vampire Meier Link. However, they also hired the Marcus Brothers for competition. In a race against time and across the lands, D and the Brothers fight their way through demons and monsters to save the woman, and slowly begin to suspect that she wasn't taken against her will...and that another threat looms in the distance... (IMDB)
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The Banquet
2008-07-06 15:27:00
Language: Mandarin. English subtitlesIMDB Rating: 6.5/ 10Plot: In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan, but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile, studying dance and music. His uncle muerders his father, taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kiill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes dtheah and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wan's coronation and dispatches Wu Luan to a distant land; he then calls for a midnight banquet on the 100th day of his rule. Poison, treachery, Wu Luan's return, and the love of the innocent Qing for Wu Luan set up the final entanglements. No Fortinbras or Horatio lay the daetd to rest (IMBD).Part IPart II

Green Street Hooligans
2008-07-05 13:45:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 7.5/ 10Plot: Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt (Elijah Wood) moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve (Marc Warren.) He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam.) Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.' Initially afraid of the violence, Matt soon ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends- but as ev...
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Dementia 13
2008-07-04 17:29:00
A real cult classic from nobody else, but Francis Ford Coppola himself! This is Dementia 13!Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 5.6/10Plot: John Haloran has a fatal heart attack, but his wife Louise won't get any of the inheritance when Lady Haloran diees if John is daetd. Louise forges a letter from John to convince the rest of his family he's been called to New York on important business, and goes to his Irish ancestral home, Castle Haloran, to meet the family and look for a way to ensure a cut of the loot. Seven years earlier John's sister Kathleen was drowned in the pond, and the Halorans enact a morbid ritual in remembrance. Secrets shroud the sister's demise, and soon the family and guests begin experiencing an attrition problem. (IMDB)

The Cube (1969)
2008-07-04 17:27:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 7.8/ 10Plot: A man awakens inside a white cube, covered in a four-by-four grid. He has no memory of how he got there and there seems no way out. But as time passes, panels open temporarily to admit an intruder or onlooker. They pop back through their panels but bar the man from going through, pointing out "this is MY door; you'll have to find YOUR door." The intruders vary from individuals to a child on a tricycle and and a rock band. More and more people start to come into the cube, filling it up and this developes into a sort of cocktail party. A rock band comes through sometime during all of this, singing The Cube 's theme song, "You'll never get out, you'll never get out, you'll never get out till you diiee." At one point the man sees himself, a double, and has a dialog with himself about how he has to find HIS way out. Is the man a prisoner? An inmate? Someone on a voluntary retreat? The stories change with each new visitor. Eventually, just as...

La société du spectacle
2008-07-02 17:13:00
This is a must see, although the book is of course a lot better...Language: French/ English subtitlesIMDB Rating: 7./ 10Plot: The 90 minute film took a year to make and incorporates footage from The Battleship Potemkin, October, New Babylon, Shanghai Gesture, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Rio Grande, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Johnny Guitar, and Confidential Report, as well as Soviet and Polish films, industrial films, American Westerns, news footage, advertisements, and many still photographs. Events such as the muerder of Lee Harvey Oswald (who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the revolutions in Spain in 1936, Hungary in 1956 and in Paris in 1968, and people such as Mao Zedong, Richard Nixon, and the Spanish Anarchist Durruti are represented. Throughout the movie, there is both a voiceover (of Debord) and inter-titles from "Society of the Spectacle" but also texts from the Committee of Occupation of the Sorbonne, Machiavelli, Marx, Tocqueville, Emile Pouget, ...

An Inconvenient Truth
2008-07-01 21:18:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 8.1/ 10Plot: Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment, Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. "Al Gore strips his presentations of politics, laying out the facts for the audience to draw their own conclusions in a charming, funny and engaging style, and by the end has everyone on the edge of their seats, gripped by his haunting message," said Guggenheim. An Inconvenient Truth is not a story of despair but rather a rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share. "It is now clear that we face a deepening global climate crisis that requires us to act boldly, quickly, and wisely," said Gore (IMDB).
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David Harvey: Lecture IV
2008-07-01 21:05:00
Having given you earlier the first and second lecture of David Harvey, I now give you his third lecture on Marx's Capital.David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.Class 4 Chapters 4-6. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Citizen Kane
2008-06-30 20:27:00
No further introduction necessary. This is Citizen Kane !Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 8.4/ 10Plot: Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" is widely considered to be the greatest film to ever come out of Hollywood. The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud." The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world. (IMDB)"

Mindwalk
2008-06-30 19:16:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 7.4/ 10Plot: A US politician (Sam Waterston) visits his poet friend (John Heard) in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medeival island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja (Liv Ullman), a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen to the ideas of this brilliant woman and discuss how her ideas can work in their own politician and poet lives (IMDB).

David Harvey: Lecture III
2008-06-29 19:16:00
Having given you earlier the first and second lecture of David Harvey, I now give you his third lecture on Marx's Capital.David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.Class 3 Chapter 3. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume One of Marx's Capital in 13 two-hour video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Chronopolis
2008-06-29 17:05:00
It took animator/filmmaker Piotr Kamler nearly half a decade to make this fantastic animated 3-D sci-fi film that is set in a futuristic city inhabited by powerful immortals who are utterly bored with the idea of eternity and so begin playing with time.Language: mostly unspoken and a little bit of French in the beginningIMDB Rating: 7.6Plot: The story is fascinating, and the style in which it is told remarkable. There is no dialog to explain what happens, just some brief opening narration to set the scene. There is an obsessed mountain climber. And elsewhere, a city with enigmatic inhabitants who control matter. The apparently omniscient Chronopolitans are able to see this mountain climber in his world, deciding to contact him to reveal their hidden existence. To do so, they manipulate basic matter though a sort of alchemy, culminating in an intelligent sphere which departs to meet the man. The interactions between the sphere and the man are mostly jovial, but trying to meet the inh...

Diablo III
2008-06-29 16:36:00
I have waited 8 bloody years for this game to come out. In fact, Diablo (both part I and part II) is one of the only games I ever played intensively (hours, hours and days). Yesterday the news came out that my waiting has finally been rewarded. Diablo 3 is said to be officially in the making and its developer, Blizzard, was kind enough to distribute some images, trailers and other goodies. Enjoy!Cinematic trailerBarbarian gameplayWitch Doctor gameplayWant more? Check out the official Diablo III website here. Know though, that the website is receiving massive amounts of traffic and can be overloaded at times.

David Harvey: Lecture II
2008-06-28 18:00:00
As promised earlier, the second lecture of David Harvey.David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.Class 2 Chapters 1-2. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.

Faces of dteha
2008-06-28 02:19:00
Think you have seen it all; the blod, the horror and the violence? Think again. I bring you the legendary and original faces of detha. Banned in 46 countries... A true cult classic that you should have seen before engaging in any serious pub conversation about random splatter and gore flicks.Is it real or is it faked? Well, there is always Google to check that out There literally exist thousands of pages on this movie and an even number of myth circulate in cyberspace. Enjoy and make your own judgement. Be aware though, this stuff is very nasty.Language: Mostly EnglishIMDB Rating: 3.2/ 10 (what a bit of blood can do to the rating!)Plot: A 'mockumentary' hosted by Dr. Francis B. Gross, a coroner. He is trying to show you the different 'faces' of people while diyng. There are faked scenes of people getting killd intermixed with footage of real accidents. There are executions by decapitation (in an Arab country) and the electric chair. One scene shows a group of tourists in Egypt ...
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Why we Fight
2008-06-28 02:04:00
Language: EnglishIMDB Rating: 8.2/ 10Plot:He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests (IMDB).
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David Harvey: Lecture I
2008-06-27 12:30:00
David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at CUNY, has done an amazing service by making his course “Reading Marx’s Capital” available online. Harvey is one of the preeminent Marxist thinkers. His most well known books are The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, and The New Imperialism.The class consists of 13 two hour videos. The first two are available. I present “Class 1, Introduction” below. I will post “Class 2, Chapters 1-2” tomorrow. Subsequent classes will appear as Harvey makes them available.Class 1 Introduction. An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Volume I of Marx's Capital in 13 two-hour video lectures by Professor David Harvey.
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The Corporation
2008-04-20 17:19:00
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it (IMDB).Part IPart II*With the courtesy of Filmschatten.blogspot.com
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Ryugyong Hotel
2008-04-19 15:37:00
"It's a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future full of extrapolated 1930's swoop-facaded and balconied skyscrapers, lean chrome caryatids with bobbed hairdos, classy airships of all descriptions drifting in the boom and hush of the city abysses, golden lovelies sunning in roof gardens and turning to wave as you pass. It is the Raketen-Stadt..." (Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow).
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Images from the past
2008-04-19 04:29:00
Well worth a watch...Memorias del subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment)Plot: Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba from the Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna (IMDB).English subtitles Macht der Bilder: Leni Riefenstahl, Die (Power of image: Leni Riefenstahl)Plot: This documentary recounts the life and work of one of most famous, and yet reviled, German film directors in history, Leni Riefenstahl. The film recounts the rise of her career from a dancer, to a movie actor to the most important film director in Nazi Germany who directed such famous propaganda films as Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The film also explores her later activities after Nazi Germany's defeat in 1945 and her disgrace for being so associated with it which includes h...
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Spaceless Information About Places
2008-04-18 21:31:00
A good thing of the contemporary spatial dynamics embedded in the hyper-communicative systems of the Internet is the access that I now have to news from the furthest corners of the world. Take the website of Newseum (627 front pages from 58 countries) for instance. Never before was it so easy to gain to access to Brazilian, Turkish or Taiwanese newspapers. If it useful? Well that's another question (does it matter?).
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Satellite Dishes
2008-04-15 18:17:00
Has been some time since my last post, was busy writing the first draft of my first chapter of my PhD. Dealing with globalisation or better a critique of the globalisation literature. Would not want to bore you too much with my argument. However, one of the things I raised was the inherent connection between technology and capitalism. Not only how capitalism feeds innovative technological breakthroughs, but also how this affects the concepts of time and space.A good example of this is the increase of TV satellite dishes in aesthetic landscape of Western European cities. The mushrooming of satellite dishes on rooftops and balconies marks the underlying emigration of (especially) Turkish families to Western countries. One could argue that the dishes destroy the aura of traditional landscapes or one could observe that these communicative devices actually hyperlise the static picture of a forgotten modernity. Or should we perhaps just accept the change without judgement? I don't know.
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