https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuDOEuwwso
In one of the most inspiring videos about the writing life I‘ve ever seen, Ray Bradbury speaks about the moment he discovered sensing himself, and the impact of conscious sensation on creativity.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuDOEuwwso Ray Bradbury
I love Donna J. Haraway. She uplifts me, from one part of myself into another, from inside of me out into the world and she inspires me to let the world in, as an act of reconciliation with existence. „To be one is always to become with many.“, writes Haraway. To evolve into the nature of things, being a body among other bodies. This is what breathing teaches us more than anything else: to become one with oneself is also to become with many. Read More
I love Donna J. Haraway. She uplifts me, from one part of myself into another, from inside of me out into the world and she inspires me to let the world in, as an act of reconciliation with existence. „To be one is always to become with many.“, writes Haraway. To evolve into the nature of things, being a body among other bodies. This is what breathing teaches us more than anything else: to become one with oneself is also to become with many. Read More
I love Donna J. Haraway. She uplifts me, from one part of myself into another, from inside of me out into the world and she inspires me to let the world in, as an act of reconciliation with existence. „To be one is always to become with many.“, writes Haraway. To evolve into the nature of things, being a body among other bodies. This is what breathing teaches us more than anything else: to become one with oneself is also to become with many. Read More
I recently discovered the catalogue accompanying the artist Michael Müller’s solo exhibition at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, called “WER SPRICHT? WHO’S SPEAKING?”. I was startled by his lucid and visceral speech and couldn‘t stop contemplating it. Here‘s an excerpt:
„We are confronted with a map of the present and it frightens us into being, a cartography too real, because within its coordinates a photographic likeness of all our mistakes has been implanted Read More
Credit: Kirill Abdrakhmanov
In January I visited the international conference „Outcast Voices – reflections on the marginalized, the exiled and the secondary in classical and modern Arabic culture“ at Haifa University. In one of the lectures, Prof. Alexander Key quoted the Persian and Arabic wisdom „Put out your foot to the extent of your carpet“ or „Stretch out your legs to the extent of your robe“, in its different versions across time. Read More
Interview with Hara Tamiki
by Anne Carson
I: Death.
HT: Death made me grow up.
I: Love.
HT: Love made me endure.
I: Madness.
HT: Madness made me suffer.
I: Passion.
HT: Passion bewildered me.
I: Balance.
HT: Balance is my goddess. Read More
