timonium, my favourite shoegazer band.

Daikichi Amano

an antology of optimism
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von trash zu staub.

Hartmut Bitomskys dokumentation läuft am samstag auf arte.

"this hidden world of trash"

new york times, trash blog

web-rights activist Jeremie Zimmermann of "La Quadrature du Net" recently accused european union legislators of copying certain illiberal elements from a french bill that would allow the french government to block the internet access of persons who illegaly copy files over the net -- originally without a judicial ruling but simply based on an official order.
in a very interesting interview with Euractiv, Zimmerman claims the EU's proposed telecoms package infringes fundamental civil rights, in that it allows the prosecution of alleged internet pirates without them receiving a fair trial. not least due to the whistleblowing of Zimmermann and his colleagues, the discredited "telecoms package" will be sent to the third reading, where the european parliament might give it a blow. but the final word has not yet been spoken. other problems with the package concern the issues of network neutrality and a modern copyright.

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for those late-born, like me, on thursday night, arte has a nice feature by christoph dreher of the merz akademie on the 1980s new york/berlin no wave "movement" , which dreher himself formed part of. don't miss!

Gentrification apparently is a topic that has been hot before mediaspree and even before the eighties. Today I found the following quote from a certain Patrick Purpoole (cited in Coleman's Power and the Structure of Society), complaining in an 1792 article in the New Law Journal that
"Around the remains of the old priority of the Knights Hospitaliers beyond Smithfield Market there has grown up across the centuries a veritable collony of small individual craftsmen, clockmakers, wood carvers, jewellers, workers in metals, spinners, musical instrument makers, in clusters of little workshops hidden in the upretentious old streets. [...] These craftsmen are not representative of dying trades. Their work is, if anything, more than even in demand, but, on the one hand, they cannot pay the rents which oil companies, banks and insurance companies can pay, and, on the other, they are an untidy anomaly in the neat, inhuman calculations of the planners." It sounds so familliar, one could think the quote is taken from a page of the lonely planet boy for berlin or paris.