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Where were we? Where is this is all leading? Our Library of the Future: A Ghost’s Story has been the replacement of some books with others, a library with another library, by a scholar to come who listens to ghosts. And, now, the secret at the heart of this project and of all that is […]

In Columbus, Ohio Students United Against Apartheid staged a demonstration outside the building where the Ohio State University trustees were meeting Friday. Students were objecting to the university’s $7 million worth of investments in U.S. companies that do business in South Africa. [May 4, 1985] Harvard must not remain on the wrong side of history, […]

From Nicht Versöhnt to Moses und Aron, one idea predominates, entirely contained in this title: not reconciled. Non-reconciliation: neither the union nor the divorce, neither the whole body (to preserve, to regret), nor the bias of desintegration, chaos (Nietzsche: one must desintegrate the universe, lose respect for all), but their double possibility. Straub and Huillet basically start from a […]

I could go on to the ‘trinkets’ sold by market traders and street peddlers. But that would be a whole other story. – Lina Bo Bardi What gets lost in translation? How might improvised actions and conversations, as well as collective thought experiments, invite us to engage with the seemingly unimportant/invisible structural and atmospheric aspects […]

You marvel at the dragon its scales used for shields and ask how – if there is only one dragon who protects their world at the movie’s end they came by the scales? He explains: ‘They were shed’ “The Ingenuousness of the Child” – cf. Anarchist Education and the Modern School Each weekend he joins […]