Author: Meike Schmidt-Gleim
Work-in-progress Präsentation „Atlas von Arkadien“ heißt das Projekt von Anna Artaker und mir. Was ist darunter zu verstehen? ein kartografisches Nachschlagewerk der Utopie? Ein Wegweiser zum „Goldenen Zeitalter jenseits gesellschaftlicher Zwänge“, zu einer Art klassenloser Urgesellschaft symbolisch verkörpert durch das...
Il y a plus que vingt ans que le mur de Berlin est tombé. Mais il semble que tout le monde se souvient parfaitement de ce moment. Aujourd’hui, de nombreux politiciens prétendent en avoir été les témoins ou activistes de...
Dans son approche des révolutions, Walter Benjamin nous rappelle le rôle de l’être humain. Une révolution se produit seulement en présence de l’intervention des gens, grâce à leur collaboration et leur confrontation, dans un espace commun comme la rue. Benjamin...
Benjamin helped us to understand that mimesis is not only reserved to art and the representation of the world. It is fundamental to social conduct, language and writing, even if these mimetic roots are often hidden and unrecognizable in the...
Bangkok is the venue of bloodshed these days. The number of dead and injured people rises every couple of days. It had all started with a different sort of bloodshed in March this year, when many demonstrators against the government...
What happens to the world when you wake up one day and get the news that your loved one is in “Evin” prison (The Iranian detention center for political detainees), or worse, that they have been taken off life-support, and buried, without an...
How to describe deprivation? The emergency alimentation for Haitians consists of cookies – five packets a day per person. The Haitians have to eat cookies (referred to as biscuits). Cookies, what an irony! “Had I known that you would visit...