Tag: German

Art, Chinese Avant-Garde, East Asian modernity

“We Are the Better West”:German Architecture Critic on Dubai’s New Tower of Babel

The other night I encountered a stupendous, if somewhat Chicken-Little-esque, review by Hanno Rauterberg in Die Zeit about the Burj Khalifa, the world’s new tallest building. Of interest here is the kind of recognition of the foot-dragging of Western democracies in producing such feats, and the sense of the global future tacking to the East.  And the fact that the review stems from a German … Continue reading “We Are the Better West”:German Architecture Critic on Dubai’s New Tower of Babel

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German, Music, My Publications, Pensee

Elie Unfurls / Olympic Flashbacks

In my own archive, a very delicious sentence has crossed my palette and I simply cannot help but post it for the delectation of the Germanophones, or for those bridging into the Teutonic, or for those who may be commemorating the fall of the wall (le chute de l’mur, der Fall des verdammten Mauers), or for those who want to know that Asian historians have … Continue reading Elie Unfurls / Olympic Flashbacks

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German, Pensee

Macht vom Kunst

Macht vom Kunst [après/after Nietzsche] Die Feind b’reit sich für Angriff vor, schon reich von Zeit und Land. Dagegen sanfte Vöglein schweben, hauen von gelber Hand. Furchtlos und klein, dies Änglein mein ist auch aber nicht so friedensvoll. Sie störren nicht welches’ ordentlich, Gut. Aber wenn die Leiden schafft sich vor den anders behändelt ist. Dies’ Kunstlerin geblendet ist wie Feuer vom Liebe und Hass, … Continue reading Macht vom Kunst

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