Saison Culture

Today I'm flying Finnair to Japan. It's been a couple of years, but that's okay; I like to leave long enough between trips for Japan's unfamiliarity and difference to gather afresh and cascade down on me. Even if it's just for a few precious hours, I want to feel like a Japan virgin all over again each time I visit. If every time feels a little like the first time, what did the first time ...

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My noughties 5: Ocky Milk, or getting your back scratched by a vampire

Planning for Ocky Milk -- codenamed, at that point, The Friendly Album -- began in March 2005 . I'd just got back to Berlin Friedrichshain (and Hisae, and the rabbit) after two months as a sound artist in residence at the Future University in Hokkaido. Japanese ideas infused the record's concept: "I want to make something as static, as friendly, as consensual, as self-effacing, as Japan itself. ...

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мы молчим, а жизнь идет

Две ссылки. Легендарную Розовую Уточку Толика Ульянова приперли к стенке и заставили отвечать за свежесочиненный dark-ambient крестовый базар про Беларусь; Толик держится молодцом, не расплескивая ни единой капли Божественного Света из чашеобразного храма, растущего у него из головы. Это Адэля. Очень толковые душеполезные рассуждения о природе зла. Это Момус, человек-оркестр и маленький...

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A new report on evil

I know from my correspondence that many of the readers of this blog are young and idealistic, and would like to dedicate their lives to tracking down evil and doing their bit in eradicating it. I sense their fervour to be "sleuths and slayers of evil". For these readers, today is a red-letter day. Because today -- via a source I cannot endanger by revealing -- I have unexpectedly received a ...

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Link blog: religion, science, politics, christianity

How to Think About Science Metafilter links to a bunch of podcasts from modern historians and philosophers of science. I've linked to Mefi rather than the podcasts as there are some interesting comments from valkyryn in the thread, on what Shapin and Schaffer were saying about the role of trust in the scientific community. (tags: audio science metafilter history philosophy ) The ...

Tags: satan funny terry eagleton daniel dennett philosophy history science morality richard dawkins evolution religion link blog karen armstrong christianity email feminism politics atheism sex

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Oh, Dubai

The following is crossposted from Straßgefühl. Comment is free. I know I love to hate on Dubai, but the spectacularity of its rise and fall - and its impacts on global markets , as demonstrated over the weekend in the 95% or so of the world where people did not eat turkey - as a thoroughly manufactured, yet distressingly real, simulated phenomenon is a completely fascinating subject to me....

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My noughties 4: Otto Spooky, googlepop

"It is not necessary that you leave the house," wrote Franz Kafka, perhaps anticipating Google. "Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet." Otto Spooky is an odd album, a treasure trove of worthless things found ...

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Clips and snaps of Berlin Japanophilia

The new edition of Berlin "electroniclivingaspects" culture mag De:Bug is out, and it's a Japan Special . A writer called Timo Feldhaus came round and interviewed me about Japanophilia for the issue, and later Mary Scherpe took some portraits in Jan's apartment round the corner, sitting on his tatami mats: I think De:Bug used a different photo from the same session for the article (I ...

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Rise and fall of the city of Dubai

Read today's papers and you'll find that there's another major financial crisis going on just now, as banks like HSBC and my own bank RBS (now 84% owned by the British taxpayer) find themselves dangerously exposed to debt defaults, mostly in the construction industry, in the bling-bling dictatorship, Dubai. Like everything else in Dubai (its highest building -- not, incidentally, the ...

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The late, mannerist years of identity politics

1. Last week, talking about Polish theatre, I referred to a character in Roman Polanski's film The Tenant as a "tranny". (In fact, the man, played by Polanski himself, dresses up as the former occupant of his apartment, possessed by her spirit.) 2. Brigitte Godot, a commenter with a blank LiveJournal, informed me yesterday in a comment that this term is offensive to transsexuals and went on to...

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