The Absinthe drinker’s “temptress seems a fitting muse for a city where the absurdities of the public realm have often encouraged a retreat into the alcoholic and the erotic.” Very good article by one of the leading Bohemists of our day (c) NYT, 2013
“Hundreds of war memorials have been built since the Balkan conflicts, but some governments exert no control over how much public money is spent or whether new monuments provoke ethnic tensions.” >text (c) balkaninsight.com 2013
(reblogged)
“Pop Culture’s Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds. Does it matter that pop music is stuck in the same old groove?” >review (c) THE OBSERVER, 2012
“Looking at Central Europe askance, asking where on earth it may be, and why its inhabitants may wish to preserve their Mitteleuropäisch-ness. Maps are the answer, or are they?” Historical analysis by Tomasz Kamusella, St. Andrews
Essay (c) Kakanien revisited, 2011
Illustration (c) Felix Hörlein & Fabian Hofmann, Munich.
delirium clemens 