On April Fools Day last year (sic), I learned from various news pages and extremely angry Facebook posts that at least seventy-six women, mostly Syrians, were detained near “Chez Maurice” in Jounieh – a town of “prostitution” north of Beirut, near the sea – as prisoners of sexual abuses. They were tortured and not allowed […]
All the things I know but cannot stop thinking about. Athens, July 31, 2016, 10:22am Warm greetings to RB.
On questionable grounds, Sámi reindeer herders in Norway, like Jovsset Ánte Sara, have been labeled environmental criminals. A myth of overstocking reindeer and the ecological destruction they cause to the arctic tundra has become an official, political truth. The Norwegian government uses this myth to impose forced slaughter of the reindeer population, reducing the Sámi’s […]
The day my father used his glasses as an iPhone stand, so his grandson could show me a YouTube clip – sharing his vision so the young one could see.
From my diary, May 1, 2013: “The 1st of May parade, the march, the working-class 1st of May, etc., etc. I have worked too much, I still work nonstop – the studio is full. The month of May is the month of Mihai and me, we are both born in this month, I at its […]
Shells: the power of oceanic memories. The carcasses of animals. The origins of plants. A beehive. An axe. Needle and string. Toward a new museology.
Today we celebrate the 2450th birthday of Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching. In 2016 the book inspired the use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) to genetically modify the “plastic-munching microbe,” Ideonella sakaiensis, isolating enzymes responsible for dissolving polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Now we depend on these scientifically engineered creatures to […]
Dear Yervant, This will be my last post to and for you. As I reach this point in tomorrow’s presentation to the audience of the Italian Cinema(s) Abroad conference, I am sure that I will be running out of time and the moderator will either have already or be about to hold up the ‘5 […]
