At Bus Stops Around San Francisco, Radiant Photos of the City’s LGBTQ Communities
At Bus Stops Around San Francisco, Radiant Photos of the City’s LGBTQ Communities VIA: HyperallergicSAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s Financial District isn’t the busiest part of town on the weekend. That’s doubly true in late 2020 as the Bay Area teeters on the brink...
Emotional Rescue
Recently, a friend was telling me about his life these days as a Los Angeles music producer and engineer. In the coronavirus era, studios are pushing new roles onto the freelancers who run their sessions: medical screener, health risk analyst, liability waiver...
Neues aus dem Fernsehrat (68): Es geht nicht um 86 Cent, es geht um Grundsätzliches
Seit Juli 2016 darf ich den Bereich „Internet“ im ZDF-Fernsehrat vertreten. Was liegt da näher, als im Internet mehr oder weniger regelmäßig Neues aus dem Fernsehrat zu berichten? Eine Serie.Wer immer noch glaubt, bei der Debatte um die Zustimmung des Landtags von...
XDB – Unser Mix der Woche
Mixe gibt es wie Sand am Meer. Einige sind großartig. Proklamieren wir an dieser Stelle jede Woche. Auf der Suche nach musikalischer Zerstreuung verneigen wir uns heute gen Göttingen – in Richtung von XDB, einem Verfechter der reinen Deephouse-Lehre.Vielleicht ist...
Judith Jarvis Thomson
The philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020) has died. She was a philosophical giant. You may know her from her landmark 1971 paper in defense of abortion or for one of her papers on the trolley problem. Or maybe you know the 1997 amicus brief on assisted suicide...
Poetry Friday: Virtual Telepoem Booth
In this week’s installment of Poetry Friday, we bring back Elizabeth Hellstern, inventor of the Telepoem Booth, a vintage rotary phone booth where you can dial numbers from a directory and listen to recorded poems. To date, Elizabeth has curated more than a dozen...
Cutting-Edge Art Takes Over Soon-to-Be-Obsolete New York Phone Booths in Outdoor Exhibition
VIA: Art NewsCan a phone booth become an art space? That was the question artist Damián Ortega and Bree Zucker, director of New York’s Kurimanzutto gallery, had in mind when they organized “TITAN,” an exhibition in which 12 artists’ works are situated in phone kiosks...
“They drop a bomb on the headquarters, I say it’s unimportant”
The Fifth Seal [SLTYT] is an award winning Hungarian movie (with subtitles) from 1976 by Zoltán Fábri. The central question of the movie is how to act ethically under oppression - a problem American viewers may find surprisingly relevant.The IMDB summary at first...
Diskurs war gestern – Uni ohne Meinungsfreiheit?
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Friedrich Nietzsche – Werte jenseits von “gut” und “böse”
Der Philosoph Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 -1900) stellt Werte wie „Wahrheit“, „Gleichheit“ oder „Mitleid“ radikal infrage. Kann man Werte auch ohne religiösen Überbau begründen? Manuskript und mehr zur Sendung