Archive for April, 2013

“Berlin Exhibition on Judaism Hits a Nerve”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 7 April 2013 by delclem

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“Bill Glucroft is not an expert on the Torah, Israeli politics or the Holocaust. But on Thursday afternoon he fielded questions on each of those subjects from visitors to the Jewish Museum here in the German capital as part of a new exhibition.

To critics of the show, called “The Whole Truth” and intended to demystify Jewish life for a curious but largely uninformed German public, it was neither the questions nor the answers that were controversial, but where Mr. Glucroft sat: in a glass box, like just another exhibit.”>full text & photo (c) NYT, 2013

 

“How Noam Chomsky is discussed”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 5 April 2013 by delclem

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“The more one dissents from political orthodoxies, the more the attacks focus on personality, style and character.” Analysis & photo (c) THE GUARDIAN, 2013

“Speak, Memory”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 4 April 2013 by delclem

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The famous neuro-scientist Oliver Sacks about his ‘false’ childhood memories of the London “Blitz” (1940-41), which were instigated by a family letter – and what this tells us about the working of memory (and narrative) >full text
(c) THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, 2013

Illustration: Heinrich Kühn, Hans with Bureau, 1905, taken from The Perfect Photograph, exhibition catalog, Albertina, Vienna (eds. Monika Faber & Astrid Mahler, publ. by Hatje Cantz).

“God’s Gift”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 3 April 2013 by delclem

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Hidden Soviet heritage in the Czech Republic: There’s a bit of the Cold War/
Warsaw Pact military complex left in the middle of country – abandoned, decaying & almost completely forgotten >text & photos from MOTHERBOARD.COM 2013

“Lowbrow in High Places”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 1 April 2013 by delclem

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“Four decades ago, the southern German state of Bavaria became the birthplace of a film genre like no other: the Lederhosen Porn. The alpine meadows were rugged, the men wore leather trousers, the porn was soft — and Germany was hooked.” Today, these films tell us much about zeitgeist, sexuality and gender in the 1970s >full text (c) DER SPIEGEL INT’L, 2013