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Never identity, always identifications. Not a native speaker
When I entered the building where the practice was located, the never-ending construction site had shifted from the street to the doorstep. Two workers were peering into the holes that jutted out of the pavement next to the entrance, looking uncertain. It was apparently not yet entirely clear how things were supposed to proceed. On my way in, I squeezed past them and found myself in the office shortly afterward, equally unsure of what the construction work meant for me.
For months, the construction site...
It's been 20 days since my last post in cyberspace, guess it'll be quality over quantiy from now on. Qualitatevly speaking of new music, I have to endorse Spillings, the collaborative project of Mat Ball (Big Brave) and Liam Andrews (My Disco). As previous projects suggest, finely grained and agile feedback meets monotonous-sounding but profound structures and introspections. Sonorous catharsis.
After a few reluctant days of illness, I am finally able to put my mind and body to something other than the at best mediocre content of TV series. Typing up some introspective rambling like in the old blogging days, but unsure if this will ever see the light of cyberspace.
Meanwhile, Laurel Halo's Atlas, one of my favorites records from 2023, is spinning: A haunted chamber orchestra forced to drone out the noise of an inner city facing its own dissolution in time...
When I had trouble falling asleep yesterday, I came up with the idea that German terms for artifacts that stop or execute a movement would make very good band names: Windfang (vestibule), Türstopper (doorstop), Kettenspanner (chain tensioner) etc.
What do we get out of Cyberspace?
TL;DR It's a question of time
Lightness is the ecstacy of communication without irony, it's the lie of disembodied cyberspace.
- Kraus, Chris (1998): I Love Dick. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), S. 204.
I sourced the quote above from my old tumblr. In the book, the protagonist writes another love letter to Dick and fleshes out the idea of subversive transcendence: Rather than desiring a state of immortal lightness, we should think of transcendence as the willingness to...
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