“A MEN’S clothes store in India is being asked to change its name after the chosen ‘Hitler’ upsets the local community.”
Summer canard, naïveté or evil business – taking the vile merchandising & ‘branding’ of Nazi history a step further…?
And what is the Gandhi-Tshirt suupposed to mean?
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“An Austrian politician has caused a furious backlash after he posted a grotesque cartoon on his Facebook page, showing a banker with a hooked nose and Star of David cufflinks.” >full text (c) HUFFINGTON POST 2012
“A short account of the Schlurfs, working
class Austrian youth who rejected the
values of Nazism” (c) libcom.org 2012
“On 28 June, which is the anniversary of the battle of Kosovo, the Bosnian Serb film maker was going to inaugurate Andrićgrad: a town (theme park?) built to celebrate the work of writer Ivo Andrić. Belgrade journalist Boško Jakšić dénonces a project, which he claims is intent on instrumentalising history and memory for nationalist ends.” Full text (c) presseurop.eu 2012
Another text (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2012
“Bubbles is the first volume of Peter Sloterdijk‘s hugely ambitious and suggestive trilogy Spheres (1998-2004) to appear in English. Here he attempts nothing less than a metaphysical history of enclosed spaces, utopian or practical pods and domes, real and fantastical atmospheres or ecosystems.” Review (c) THE GUARDIAN 2012
Illustration: carpet by Margret Eicher Sloterdijk facing the Holy Inquisition of Trivial Taste
The True Blasphemy: a statement by the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the Pussy Riot trial (c) DANGEROUSMINDS.NET 2012
>Another text by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek (in German)
“A new tourist attraction takes visitors underground where they can listen to Mozart, experience a model air raid shelter or run with the rats.” > Review
(c) wieninternational.at 2012
“FUTURA, an ancient granary from the days of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy converted into an interactive nature-adventure attraction, is expected to bring a boom in international tourism to Mosonmagyaróvár, a small Hungarian spa resort of some 80 kilometres from Vienna.” >review (c) wieninternational.at 2012
“Hermann Hesse spent his life searching for truth and inner harmony outside Germany. Yet his quests to the East ultimately led him back to the West and to the realization that the alternatives he found in the East offered no short cut to salvation. To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, Gunnar Decker presents a new biography of the successful author, one which also explains the Orientalism in his work.” >review (c) Qantara.de 2012
delirium clemens 