A dream

· Ricardo Cedeño Montaña · Art

Lately, SDM has become concern about baroque aesthetics, well I've always found Latin-American literature quite baroque in style and content. When Espen Aarseth was here in Bremen, invited by Frieder, he constantly referred back to Borges and his labyrinths. In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has …

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The exploding internet

· Andre Hoffmann · Culture

I read in the news recently that most Internet users are chinese now. Still, only 19% of them use the Internet regularly. Biggest per capita rate is in Japan, followed by the US. Click on the graphic below to see the numbers of some of the biggest Internet countries in 2008. [caption id="attachment_453" align="aligncenter" width="300" …

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Vice interviews Simon Critchley

· Andre Hoffmann · Culture Theory · 2 comments

Reading one of my favourite magazines, Vice , I stumbled across an interesting interview with contemporary British philosopher Simon Critchley. The interviewer is not very good, probably he had no idea of what he should ask, but nevertheless, Critchley pointed out some interesting thoughts. We are not even consumerist; we are a society of distraction, …

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