There is a piano restorer in Uferhallen. Once a week or so the forecourt fills with many cars not from …
Reading: Owen Lattimore – Inner Asian Frontiers of China
owen lattimore – inner asian frontiers of china
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 …
生日快乐!!! happy 7th birthday supernaut! (nochmal vergessen…)
aaa!!! I forgot again! every year! Trotzdem … Schokolade! Kuchen! Viel Spaß und Krawall machen! supernaut? yes!
reading: vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment: intellectuals and the legacy of the may fourth movement of 1919
vera schwarcz – the chinese enlightenment
Reading: Paul Hockenos – Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic
paul hockenos – joschka fischer
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 …
Reading: Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Laurence Dreyfus: Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Reading: Frank Dikötter – Mao’s Great Famine
frank dikötter – mao’s great famine
Reading: Reza Negarestani – Cyclonopedia
reza negarestani – cyclonopedia
Reading: Edward Allworth (ed.) – Central Asia – 120 Years of Russian Rule
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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 …
uferhallen at night
Apparently the fire department will come and take me down if I attempt to climb the chimney in Uferhallen. Well, …
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Fiction): China Miéville – Kraken
china miéville – kraken
“Reading: … ” Book of the Year (Non-Fiction): Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
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 …
Reading: Nazif Shahrani – The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan
nazif shahrani – the kirghiz and wakhi of afghanistan
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
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
Werner Bab
One of the first sites I did as a freelancer was porting imdialog-ev.org from a dead cms into WordPress for …
reading: jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
jonathan burrows – a choreographer’s handbook
reading: jonathan safran foer – eating animals
jonathan safran foer – eating animals
lainzer tiergarten
I took off away from the city yesterday, as I’d been planning since before I arrived, remembering wandering in the …
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
Reading: James A. Millward – Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
james a. millward – eurasian crossroads
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
readin: david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
david hinton: chuang tzu – the inner chapters
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
reading: juan cole – engaging the muslim world
juan cole – engaging the muslim world
reading: Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Leslie T. Chang – Factory Girls
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
reading: hanna arendt – eichmann and the holocaust
I am a Muslim
Coming to Berlin caused my attention to drift to a small part of my life I know little about, and …
reading: g. whitney azoy – buzkashi – game and power in afghanistan
g. whitney azoy – buzkashi
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: 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
Reading: Iris Chang – The Rape of Nanking
iris chang – the rape of nanking
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 …
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, …
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
uferstr & kreuzberg & treptow
Sie sagt, “Kapitalismus muss weg!” mit Ihr Faust drohen, über ein €10 Zweiradschloss. Wir hat geradelt um Kreuzberg und Treptow, …
leaving the brauerei
For the last nine months, I’ve been living in a beautiful, isolated small apartment, by virtue of being on a …
brauerei fast fertig
Soon I will have to leave my beloved hobo dachgeschoss. Eight months, surely one of the most beautiful homes in …
save the vca
It is a long time ago now, camping on the lawn outside the front of Victorian College of the Arts …
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 …
Gunter Kroemer
Over much of this year I’ve been working with Christian Ender on rebuilding the code of one of his documentary …
a plant a brewery
Learning more of depth of field and finally moving into the full manual mode on my LX3. It has a …
brauerei, alex im hintergrund
More playing with my camera. I wondered why shooting at f/4 was leaving the background in wide-angle shots a bit …
Reading: Alexandra Richie – Faust’s Metropolis – A History of Berlin
alexandra richie – faust’s metropolis
Reading: Barry Cunliffe – Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC – AD 1000
europe between the oceans – barry cunliffe
reading: jorge luis borges – collected fictions
jorge luis borges – collected fictions
Reading: Walter Benjamin – Berlin Childhood around 1900
The last few days I have enjoyed the rather delectable company of a hobo formerly from Berlin, now residing in …
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 …
Reading: Antonio Giustozzi – Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
koran, kalashnikov and laptop
Reading: R.H.C. Davis – A History of Medieval Europe
a history of medieval europe
Reading: Daniel Ladinski Trans. – The Gift: Poems by Hafiz, The Great Sufi Master
hafiz – the gift. trans. daniel ladinsky
Reading: Taliban – Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia – Ahmed Rashid
taliban – ahmed rashid
reading: william gibson & bruce sterling – the difference engine
william gibson + bruce sterling – the difference engine
three new categories
Finally I have added some new categories that have been eating at me like some rapacious tropical parasite. It a …
saturday morning re-blogging
Last night was a rather interesting experience for me that I’m not going to blog about, but certainly has much …
sunday tranny-blogging (and spitting in china)
What is it about Sundays that seem to cause a blog upwelling of a more cerebral nature than during the …
the meaning of everything
So far in 2007, I’ve started well over a score of books, and finished no more than a handful, well …
I also wanted to include mermaids and shipwrecks …
Continuing my current science bender, a piece of reblogging from Barista on Marie Tharp, Cartographer, scientist, one of those people …
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …
Shanghai to Mongolia via Mir
Reblogging again, this time combining a some of my disparate loves. Astronaut Shannon Lucid, like writer J. G. Ballard has …
savage formosa
National Geographic is one of those magazines like good chocolate I get breathless over when each new issue arrives in …
on plagues and skin disorders
Reading Jean Baudrillard‘s Symbolic Exchange and Death in 2003 was one of those pivotal moments in consumption of text that …
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 …
collapsing old buildings
There is a small part of Guangzhou where I am disoriented and nearly convinced I am actually in Zürich walking …
reading some books
Today was a minor holiday after my 15 hour binge yesterday in DVD Studio Pro and the joy of sorting …
濁水溪公社 ltk commune is gonna rock you
During my months in Taipei, hanging out at The Wall, and pretty much constantly amazed at what a cool arts …
it’s my happening babe and it freaks me out
More from the endless mailing lists which make me feel popular and loved by filling up hundreds of kilobytes of …
Traditional Architecture in modern Asia
I’m not sure where the link to this came from, but anyone interested in Asian architecture will get a kick …
the old man of hoy
It’s possible that on the one day off from dancing in the week I would be best served by lying …
mao the destroyer
There is always something despicable about tourists who collect Mao memorabilia or wear Great Helmsman badges. For me it is …
China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
The Asian Review of Books review James Lilley’s swashbuckling tale of intrigue, parachuting spies into communist Manchuria, and hanging out …
in the footsteps of joseph rock
There are a whole pageload of new blogs over at sinosplice china blog list, but only in only one is …
the watchtowers of 开平碉楼 kaiping diaolou
News Guangdong reports on the Kaiping Watchtowers, diaolou 碉樓, which have come under State protection for their architecture and historic …
cultural revisionism
In a piece of historical revisionism that marks Revolutionary Worker as the inbred cousin of David Irving, the ‘magazine’ offers …
xanadu at the nla
Canberra’s National Library of Australia has just opened an exhibition of historical images from China, Xanadu – Encounters with China …
humanism in china
Humanism in China, the photographic exhibition which started at the Guangzhou Museum of Art in December 2003, and travelled to …
Time of Disasters
Sick of watching Hollywood beat the crap out of New York in every disaster movie from ,Towering Inferno to The …
跳舞時代 Viva Tonal – The Dance Age
The emergence of a local recording industry, dance halls, pop-stars under the shadow of Japanese occupation makes 跳舞時代 Viva Tonal …