April 2011
4 posts
“According to the [Club Commission’s] report, Berlin’s clubbing...”
– Tobias Rapp, “Berlin, Techno and the Easyjet Set”
“Christian Metz was born in Béziers in 1931 and died in Paris in 1933.”
– A significant typo in a Routledge book about cinema. The next sentence, disappointingly, doesn’t say: “at the age of six months, Metz penned The Imaginary Signifier, his most famous work, before dying in obscurity shortly before his second birthday.”
“Synth-pop envisioned a music beyond domestic or religious architecture....”
– Faking It in Space: Musings on the Melodious Confluence of Computers and Humanity | Flaunt Magazine
March 2011
6 posts
“Ostalgie is therefore not simply a sense of a lack of something missing which...”
– Mmmhmm.
“The unheimliche Heimat in the context of Ostalgie is uncanny, unknown and...”
– Ditto.
“The GDR, for all its very many faults, still, at least in theory, had a...”
– Peter Thompson says in 150 words what I will tortuously expand upon in my allotted 90,000… 