As much as I love my hometown, I can also hate it viscerally: for its provinciality and nationalism culminating in the city’s mind-numbing and degenerate carnival festivities fueled by the home-brewn beer called Kölsch, or for the mismanaged and ugly build-up of the city after 95% of it was destroyed in the merciless bombings of …
I tuned in into the public Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial because I am done with our hyperreality and cut myself off from reading the news and discourses produced by the mass media for good. Hard to resume the dimension of alienation caused by the many various fatalities of the past two years. I …
We must be aware of the superiority of our civilisation. Silvio Berlusconi For some Dario Argento’s best giallo and lesser known masterpiece, the modernistic, cold, and stylish Tenebrae is worth watching for many reasons: bold psycho murders, moonstruck and somnambule acting which adds to the overall delirious suspense, extensive shots of memorably unusual ankles, vivid …
The common once-in-a-century pandemic turning into mental hell because this time it is taking place in neo-liberal times and the age of surveillance capitalism. The televised genocide on Palestinians, an Israeli Apartheid based on racial superiority that’s being feverishly supported in my country. A falling Empire that’s leaving the world with the monsters and masters …
Director: Paul Poet Death is a sad and solemn business? Not always. Especially when it works as natural and just selection, it is a reason for absolute celebration. On October 11th in 2008, I met with friends at Bar Tabac in Cologne to celebrate the death of Austrian Neo-Nazi Jörg Haider by drinking, singing and …
Why All Minorities Should be Scared to Death to Live Under Biden and Colonial European Leaders “What Do You Think of Western Civilization?” “I Think It Would Be a Good Idea” Mahatma Gandhi There is a big elephant in the room: while apartheid and the cruelest possible colonial rule of a far-right government is being …
(Human Rights Watch (HRW) finally assessed the obvious: “Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution.“) Dear All of You: I sense I’m breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I can’t keep quiet any more. Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was …
Director: Whit Stillman Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Whatever the revisionist rock music critics would have you believe: the Sex Pistols did not take over American youth-culture in late 70s. …
With Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister and the algorithmic populist Five Star Movement led by Comedian Beppo Grillo, Italy did everything before any other modern populists did anything. That’s why Steve Bannon spent so much time over in Rome, studying closely what’s going on in the populist Capitol of the world to implement the recipe …
One of the songs Elvis Presley liked to perform in the ’70s was Joe South’s “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” its message clearly spelled out in the title. Sometimes he would preface it with the 1951 Hank Williams recitation “Men With Broken Hearts,” which may well have been South’s original inspiration. “You’ve never walked …
