Art… transmediale buzz 7 Feb 2012 The Berlin transmediale is, to my knowledge, one of the very best annual conferences (a "convergence" is more the appropriate word) which exist on Planet Earth. I was very fortunate…
Art… Transmediale Infusion 4 Feb 20114 Feb 2011 One of the beauties of living in an existence torn between the 19th century (hemmed by Prussian systems, Schumannian aufschwungen, the epistolary desire) and the 21st century (all the while…
Cello Berlin Performance 21 Jan 201121 Jan 2011 By way of apologizing for a recent lack of attention to German-language sources on this blog, I should like to mention that I will be appearing in concert with my…
German Berlin Tales: Zyklus, Takt 1 9 Jul 2010 What follows is the first of what I anticipate will be a series of stories from my time in Berlin in June and early July, 2010. Generally, I anticipate pairing…
German… Kim Il Song//North Koreans in Berlin 23 Jun 2010 Yesterday I ordered and got into my hands a pile of letters from Kim Il Song to the East German leaders from 1955-56. The man has a quirky signature, and…
French… This Ain’t Dallas: NYT on Seattle Teriyaki 11 Jan 2010 This is, sadly, no food blog, but the following article from the New York Times has been giving me a great deal of joy lately and I thought I'd share:…
German… Aufstieg Links 10 Oct 2009 "Disembark on the left," the speakers say at the end of the clip. I think this short video, which I shot on a goregous spring day in Berlin this past…
East Asian modernity… Postwar Meditation: Berlin/Tokyo 18 Sep 200919 Sep 2009 Postwar is post-nothing: it is the beginning of something. "Ach!", trained instinct cries, "but what of 'tragen', to carry heavy burdens, of its simple past trug? Do not ponderous and…
China… Remembering Tiananmen and 1989 in Europe [1] 19 Jul 200922 Jul 2009 June 4, 1989 may lay buried under new epochs already, but the meaning of that date for China and its observers is clearly going to continue reverberate for decades. The…
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