Reading: Owen Lattimore – Inner Asian Frontiers of China

owen lattimore – inner asian frontiers of china

supernaut updates supernaut

Last night I noticed the dilapidated state of my sidebar links. “Who uses them anyway?”, I thought, before answering myself …

Nein! Nein! Nicht die Wunde ist es.

I heard it slightly wrong. Parsifal, struck with awareness of Amfortas and the wound is physically overwrought. “Sie brennt in …

mein lesbisches auge 10

Some weeks ago, I was called upon to get an image ready for print with a half-hour, mid-night deadline; the …

Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic

paul hockenos – joschka fischer

parsifal. end.

jardin 5 4 3 2 1 fin.

parsipress? pressifal?

More? More! Continuing on from when Castellucci was a criminal … Words and Pictures!. I was planning on making an …

the sound of the people gives me hope

There has not been enough of this in my lifetime. It’s almost 4am, I should be going to sleep but …

The last free people on the planet

I started reading Neuroanthropology a couple of years ago at least, and it has been one of the first blogs …

castellucci is a criminal

After the fourth performance, an emotionally tough night for us, we stand outside the stage door. A woman in beret, …

新年快乐!!!

家家兔年好!

miscellanea surrounding friday evening

Did I say we tried the second scene mostly naked with much whiteness? Comes off with soapy showering. That was …

Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia

reza negarestani – cyclonopedia

Shibari Technique December

While Dasniya is away on tour, I will be teaching the Tuesday evening Shibari Technique classes. The address is: “Buffet …

Reading: James R. Brandon – Theatre in Southeast Asia

james r. brandon – theatre in southeast asia

blacker…

China Miéville’s rejectamentalist manifesto has been one of my favourite daily-ish reads since I stumbled into it after wondering where …

Reading: China Miéville – Un Lun Dun

china miéville – un lun dun

Zwei Bäume weniger in Berlin nur Baustellen und Bagger und brave Bürger..

zwei bäume weniger – 1 zwei bäume weniger – 2 zwei bäume weniger – 3 zwei bäume weniger – 4 …

Uferstrasse Trees

A few months ago various people in Uferstrasse got together to save some trees that were to be felled in …

Reading… a 3rd anniversary

Regarding the two-score books of the last year, it is surprising which of the non-fiction – a term I use …

uferhallen – autumn

A warm autumn afternoon yesterday with Michael, come all the way from Madrid. A morning cleaning, and more warmth of …

Liu Xiaobo 刘晓波

Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo for being awarded the Nobel Peace prize. I’ve been keeping up with my reading on this …

Reading: Nazif Shahrani – The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan

nazif shahrani – the kirghiz and wakhi of afghanistan

Reading: Peter Hopkirk – The Great Game

peter hopkins – the great game

Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

peter hopkins – foreign devils on the silk road

Reading: Peter Hopkirk – Trespassers on the Roof of the World

peter hopkins – trespassers on the roof of the world

Reading: William Gibson – Zero History

william gibson – zero history

eating: lamb and fresh fig tajine

Michael came back to Berlin for the weekend, a welcome surprise that coincided nicely with my weeks-long desire for a …

zwei jahre aufenthaltstitel

Not much writing here lately, being distracted with a couple of large design projects and miscellaneous other things (mostly involving …

(Some) Stuff I Read This Week

For some reason I decided to start using Twitter again — I suspect iPhone — and without any clear purpose …

müggelsee by boat and foot

Today rising somewhat early and then via S-Bahn (und zwei abgefickte neo-faschisten), Ostkreuz, S-Bahn again to Friedrichshagen, a town outside …

Reading: Matthew T. Kapstein – The Tibetans

matthew t. kapstein – the tibetans

germany is (slightly) embarrassing itself

Reading signandsight’s From the Feuilletons this week… it’s been dead in my feed for some time, but returned with excellent …

reading: charles stross – the trade of queens

reading: charles stross – the trade of queens

Christoph Schlingensief

christoph schlingensief

Reading: Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

Gerald Siegmund – William Forsythe: Denken in Bewegung

yoga + shibari brussels photos

Some photos from the workshop Dasniya taught in Brussels late-June/early-July. I’ve been meaning to put these up for a while, …

Werner Bab

One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …

lainzer tiergarten

I took off away from the city yesterday, as I’d been planning since before I arrived, remembering wandering in the …

die bäume bleiben

(Just before cycling back to rehearsal…) Our beautiful tree of Uferstrasse will remain for the moment. The Berliner Wasserbetriebe has …

sophiensäle wien

Blogging daily about Café Prückel I think I can say won’t be happening. Much busyness, running around, long days, inability …

Reading: Christopher I Beckwith – The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia

christopher i. beckwith – the tibetan empire in central asia

Nowkoelln Flowmarkt

Because I never manage to be here on the one Sunday a month, and shall be gone to Vienna tomorrow …

brussels parc forest and others…

Ten days in Brussels, it passes quickly. Tomorrow returning to my other home. I haven’t written much about being here, …

on science and ethics

Many of you who read my blog or know me personally know I am a bit of a lush for …

two… zwei

Two years now. And it was yesterday. I arrived in Berlin after some hours from Frankfurt on the train, easier …

reading: frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao

frank dikotter – the age of openness: china before mao

reading: charles stross – the revolution business

charles stross – the revolution business

reading: charles stross – the merchants’ war

charles stross – the merchants’ war

reading: charles stross – the clan corporate

charles stross – the clan corporate

reading: charles stross – the hidden family

charles stross – the hidden family

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann in jerusalem

reading: charles stross – the family trade

reading: charles stross – the family trade

bechdel’s law

A couple of days ago I was reading Thus Spake Zuska, one of the many science blogs I consume most …

reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world

juan cole – engaging the muslim world

art sunday

Some rather nice art has fallen my way recently, falling around something that might become abjection. Of course it induces …

brussels train

A week in Brussels. Much reading, three new books, two finished. Much cooking also, Hans, Aunschka, Paea whom I’ve not …

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust

reading: charles stross – saturn’s children

charles stross – saturn’s children

I am a Muslim

Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …

sydney’s siberia and other digital creatures

No, I don’t actually remember which Mac forum I discovered Jason Nelson and secrettechnology on. I do though highly enjoy …

reading: sven regener – berlin blues

sven regener – berlin blues

Kirschblütenfest in den Asiatischen Gärten

Journeying far east to Erholungspark Marzhan and the Gärten der Welt for the Cherry Blossom Festival. Much apartment-stack architecture reminding …

some days in london … part one

Arriving late. Dasniya and I caught the ring S-Bahn to Flughaven Schönefeld certainly one of the most dreary airports belonging …

reading: dan simmons – hyperion

dan simmons – hyperion

japanese bondage live drawing

Monday at the London Festival of Japanese Rope Bondage, something of a quieter day for all of us finished with …

london – a proof

Why are you photographing busses in Picadilly Circus? To prove I was here. … and that I was a tourist. …

dasniya sommer dvd

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a project for Dasniya Sommer, for whom I did her …

reading: edward said – orientalism

edward said – orientalism

reading: iain m. banks – consider phlebas (second time)

iain m. banks – consider phlebas

新年快乐

春节快乐!!! I 老虎 U! 新年快乐广州!

reading: primo levi – if not now, when?

primo levi – if not now, when?

anouk van dijk & falk richter – TRUST

The set is moody, gloomy, dark, chrome chairs and black leather sofa, matching seats, a stylist-industrial minimalist clutter extending back …

reading: christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road

christopher i. beckwith – empires of the silk road

reading: iranophobia – the logic of an israeli obsession – haggai ram

iranophobia – haggai ram

reading: iain m banks – excession (4th time)

iain m banks – excession

Reading: Feng Jicai – Voices from the Whirlwind

feng jicai – voices from the whirlwind

Reading: Katherine Pratt Ewing – Stolen Honor – Stigmatizing Muslim Men in Berlin

katherine pratt ewing – stolen honor

i’d dance on your grave but i’ll piss on it instead

It’s not often I’m taken with glee to read of the death of someone. During the years I’ve blogged, many …

solstice

Taoism struggles against the cultural preference for the “light.” The Tao Te Ching, especially, champions the low, the dark. Darkness …

claude

claude lévi-strauss

Reading… a 2nd anniversary

My reading the last year has not been of either the volume, nor the breadth of the previous, in no …

orgy of tolerance

To have your idols disappoint. It is a delicious sensation. And probably inevitable, necessary. My Friday Antwerp wanderings, despite the …

Ath

An adventure yesterday, south-west of Bruxelles for around 30 minutes. A train with Gala, past a town called Silly. No, …

antwerpen

A train to Antwerpen with no ticket despite my attempts to buy one. Thirty minutes in which I think upon …

SOIT – We Was Them

To start at the end. Or, an ending. Somewhere past an hour, Ivan and Harold (I think) sit on the …

i have a futon

The last time I saw my futon was, I think, early last year when I temporarily removed from storage all …

hilary

“…and when terror strikes just take a deep breath and remember that life is just one long learning experience. Nothing, …

sorayama nawa shibari

Last night with the wonderful Katrin, I was introduced to an artist I’d not thought upon for years, and likely …

reading: j.g. ballard – empire of the sun

j.g. ballard – empire of the sun

reading: iain banks – canal dreams

iain banks – canal dreams

reading: iain banks – walking on glass

iain banks – walking on glass

reading: iain banks – song of stone

iain banks – song of stone

reading: ohran pamuk – istanbul

ohran pamuk – istanbul

reading: iain banks – espedair street

iain banks – espedair street

slow southern steel

Waking up without coffee at the moment, and of course breakfast reading starts with Ideologic, and so I find myself …

i went to bruxelles… the weekend…

Ballet Friday, wandering the streets after and eating a lot. Mussels missed, but waffles, chocolate, pommes frites, beer, all yes. …

i went to bruxelles…

I was possessed by the desire to go to Brussels on Sunday last week, and in a fit of unusualness, …

save the vca

It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …

häuslichkeit

I vacuum. Much hair. Häuslichwissenschaft. The grey fluff is, I suppose, mostly my skin. Grey and red. Occasional haferflocken. The …

a chronology of burnt-out corpses

Mainly that I laughed and snorted when I read the title and looked at the familiar map of Berlin drowned …

merce

merce cunningham

Gunter Kroemer

Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 10)

I’ve been meaning to say something about my apartment, I mean to say, where I’m staying. The woman who let …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 8)

Wherein I discover that ImPulsTanz knows about my blogging of settlement and having revealed as such in their newsletter, I …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 5) (and sunday also)

umm… Supermodels. Catwalks. Shopping lists. Hate. Ambivalence. Whispering. Not whispering loudly enough. Microphones. Costume changes. Love. Happiness. Drugs. Music. This …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 4)

So perhaps I admit I’m going to blog about this most days… Somehow I found myself doing yoga at WUK …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 3)

Today I ate dates and fresh peaches for lunch. And a banana. And had dinner at Der Wiener Deewan, mmm …

impulstanz – settlement… (perhaps day 2)

I ate prunes today. I went to find coffee, and found myself with chocolate croissant and mélange in a dainty …

von berlin hbf nach wien sued

Early rising, 9 hours from Berlin to Vienna, through Czechoslovakia, I’ve never been there before. Now I’ve seen several train …

Reading: John Steinbeck – Of Mice and Men

john steinbeck – of mice and men

kunst and the greens

Three years ago I was so happy to be leaving Australia immediately after the nauseating reelection of that repulsive clique …

more on the Small Arts Sector Research Project

A couple of days ago I wrote about the new Small Arts Sector Research Project the Arts Industry Australia (Victoria) …

Small Arts Sector Research Project

For all the independent artists around in Melbourne this Friday, the Arts Industry Council (Victoria) has announced this meeting. Please …

liberals arts policy: go fuck yourselves

I can’t quite articulate exactly how much I want to see the Victorian Liberals hurled bodily into a swampy, fetid …

la mama – does anyone take ozco seriously anymore?

A few days ago, I was talking with someone about a certain hack from the Herald Sun, whose name evades …

savage formosa

National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …

三元里 san yuan li in new york

Ou Ning of Alternative Archive, who does spend more time in airports than me, and possibly the person mostly likely …

一队夫妻只生育一孩子

A friend was in town for a day, so I subjected him to my tour of Canton, walking from where …

the turmoil ended with his death

During 岭南启示录 Apocalypse PRD, China didn’t celebrate forty years since the start of the Cultural Revolution, and for various reasons …

we hate art and like nothing interesting

Beijing’s Dashanzi Art District which I always think of as embodying contemporary Chinese art as so much of it comes …

still lazy (but reading like a concubine at an orgy)

I just can’t seem to get focussed on blogging at the moment, I think because my schedule is a little …

ma jian – stick your tongue out

In Taiwan a year ago, thanks to the vast library at the Taipei Artist Village I got seriously into reading …

JT LeRoy – keeping it fake

Part of me likes the great simulacrum of the media endlessly recreating its own reality until it is all simultaneously …

transsexuals in china

There was a kinda interesting article in China Daily, about a transsexual named Xiao Ying, who is about to have …

同志 tongzhi getting queer in china

It could have been the part of town I was hanging out in, or it could be that Guangzhou is …

more stuff i’ve been reading

I’ve been really enjoying reading from blogs lately, obviously from my daily reading list, (which has since grown longer) even …

china’s changing landscape

The first time I took the KCR train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou I thought I’d arrived in Mordor. Endless …

you must wait for democracy

China and democracy. Well there goes easy access to my website in China. The meme of China and its globally …

all of china at the kennedy centre

There’s a fairly huge mega-company type cultural celebration of China going on at the moment at both the Kennedy Centre …

the absence of hong kong art

Yan at Glutter got stuck into the abysmal state of contemporary arts in Hong Kong today, with My HK Contemporary …

a jew in china is not a parsimonious monkey

Some uppity group called with a bad name, Peacetime Foundation of Taiwan have decided the world would be a better …

buck & allanah – the universe makes sense

I think this entry is gonna generate huge quantities of spam, considering just how much people like coming here for …

同志 tongzhi studies at fudan university

Here’s another piece on the new queer studies class at Fudan University. Besides thinking this is really cool and China …

同志 tongzhi queers in China’s universities

Tong Ge, who is in his late 50s, said the haunts for homosexuals had changed dramatically in recent years. “Up …

KJ #64: Special Issue on Gender in Asia

Kyoto Journal is seeking submissions for KJ#64 Gender in Asia, guest edited by contributing editor Sally McLaren. More information on …

3108 blog day 2005

Well, I didn’t even know about it… so much for being bleeding-bloody-edge and stuff. Well it’s because some blogger in …

Down and Out in China

Richard thought I’d like it. I was filling one of his spare rooms in Panyu with the detritus of five …

April Ashley – Transsexuals have more fun

The Sydney Morning Herald, about the closest thing Australia gets to a newspaper, but still mostly a gossip rag had …

babes in beijing

In 1989, Rachel DeWoskin arrived in Beijing fresh from university to work for an American P.R. firm. Two months later …

punching on in the mainland

Within twenty-four hours of getting into guangzhou, I saw one almost riot at the train station between really pissed off …

burp …

Heading back to Taipei tomorrow after a week of eating. Posting will occur like a Chinese fireworks inferno some time …

人造美女 – miss artificial beauty

The first beauty competition in China for people who had plastic surgery, 人造美女, is over, and the winner is Feng …

what i read this week

It’s a smorgasboard of words this week. fro Li Bai all the way up to street slang, don’t ya just …

what i read this week

Just in case I ever need to recall what I read this week that didn’t have anything to do with …

art and freedom vs. money in shanghai

With the recent issues in Australia of arts funding being sent on a round trip through the local abbatoir, and …

miss tiffany singapore

Miss Tiffany has been crowned for the first time in Singapore. In an imitation of the famous Thailand beauty pageant …

prostitution in china

Andrés Gentry has written one of the most in-depth and compassionate pieces on prostitution in China I have ever read. …

ximending

The Taipei Times had a piece on Ximending, which sounds like either the kind of place I’d want to live …

thorpe is gay

Nat and Ali managed to make it all over the news this week with their project Hungry Bums, part of …

崔子恩 《丑角登场》 Cui Zi’en – Enter The Clowns

Something I wish I’d known about last time I was in China are the films of Cui Zi’en. There is …

humanism in china

Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …

where are all the good looking chinese girls?

The Straits Times has a bunch of filler between ads on the wild world of beauty contests that are rampant …

Smells like teen spirit

One day there’s too many queer westerners causing television presenters to dye their hair unnatural colours, expose too much flesh …

Chinese no funny

Vice Magazine. A bunch of cut-rate losers from Canada. Last month, their International Department advanced the so-close-we’re-moist bilateral relationship between …

Reefer Madness in China

Like every western country, the youth of China are getting turned on to the pleasure of getting wasted; dropping into …

Prime Minister ‘reflects’ on sex-change

Alex is 13 and wants to be a boy – not just in name and identity, but also on his …

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