If you missed the secret. Go back to yesterday’s post. Today is the beginning of the fallout; the aftermath of the Minus Plato project. The reason that he has invited me – a library’s ghost – to speak over these past months on a daily basis is to demonstrate through the sifting, sorting, packing up, […]
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 […]
Maybe he senses that the end is near and that is why he has brought me back. I don’t know. He is fickle and so part of me felt, even though he kept taking books from my shelves and posting about or around them, he had moved on and past this daily project (he uses […]
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 […]
The City is divided by a river called You Can’t Step Into Me Twice. The two banks thus created are the Left and the Right Hemispheres. One is considered to be evil and the other good. Everything inside the bodies of the inhabitants also comes in pairs. They have two eyes, nostrils, lungs, brains, hands, […]
Tune to 51:45 to hear these words for yourself and the whole episode via Ginger Dunnill’s Broken Boxes Podcast
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 […]
