End of the Year Tales: Women and the Scarcity Economy of Love

End of the Year Tales: Women and the Scarcity Economy of Love

Reading Susan Sontag’s journals from the early 1970s I skip the part that is about her unfortunate love with C. While leafing through the pages, there is one sentence, though, that sticks: “Scarcity eco…

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End of the Year Tales: What have human cultures made of time?

End of the Year Tales: What have human cultures made of time?

The artist, critic and activist Nine Yamamoto-Masson has a new radio series News from the Sun . The first part is on the topic of time, which is a great thing to reflect about in this time slot between…

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Uncertain States at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Uncertain States at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Everybody kept telling me how great the current show Uncertain States at Akademie der Künste is, so I was excited to finally check it out. I love the architecture of the old academy at Hanseatenweg.…

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Things I Heard This Week

Things I Heard This Week

S told me at a Japanese plum dinner how it seems to him that all Japanese art has a  same kind of sensibility: a bit of sadness, melancholy, and a bit of nature.   Pickled Japanese plum is a very so…

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