* Advertisements are telling us “I am what I am” (Reebok), “be Marlboro”, “be yourself” (One Watch Company), and other empty phrases that attempt to level and associate our being with commodities. That is what I call ontological rape, the estrangement from being through material.
Munich, the birthplace of modern graffiti in Germany, wants to promote street art. But is legal graffiti still fun? Some artists see subsidies as interference, while property owners are already calculating removal costs. Link to the article
2012 war Manuel Niedermeier Stipendiat der Bayerischen Akademie des Schreibens, nun ist sein Debütroman im C. H. Beck:Verlag erschienen.
Did you know that you are participating in a divine plan this very moment that you are surfing through the infinite vastness of the cyberspace, sending and receiving information? At least, that is what some members of the founding generation surrounding Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, thought. Link to the article
Hitler’s architect of death and Gandhi, the pacifist, followed the Bhagwad Gita faithfully, but with very different results, says Krisha Kops Link to the article
Die Digitalisierung als Chance sehen, fordern die beiden Autoren Urchs und Cole. Ihre Thesen sind streitbar.
