Month: January 2012

300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland

via Retort & Alternet: 300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland Corporate Media Dutifully Report City Officials’ Version of Events Joshua Holland [Read the original version here]. January 29, 2012 – Downtown Oakland turned ugly once again on Saturday, as Occupy activists attempting to squat in a long-abandoned city building were met by lines of heavily-armored riot police. Police officials said that 300 arrests followed – a number that may represent … Read more 300 Arrested at Occupy Oakland

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Lucas Cranach the Elder Digitalized

The above from a quite extraordinary site that has digitalized most if not all of Cranach the Elder’s paintings, & constitutes one of the most effective uses of e-archives I can imagine. Check it out & enjoy, here. If the quality of the pictures is absolutely superb, I wish they had created a slightly more user-friendly way of moving around the site. But this is a total treat. Here … Read more Lucas Cranach the Elder Digitalized

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Carl Weissner (1940-2012)

We hadn’t met in a number of years, though we would talk on the phone once or twice  yearly, me calling from wherever I was, Carl always from Mannheim. I had hopes that this coming summer I may stop in Mannheim for a visit, as I will be driving through Germany, but too late now — the news just came that Carl called it splitsville. An excellent writer (with … Read more Carl Weissner (1940-2012)

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Language without a childhood

Via signandsight, this on the Turkish-born German-writing author Emine Sevgi Özdamar. You can read the full article here: A tribute to the writing of Emine Sevgi Özdamar, whose novels have made Berlin greater, more expansive, warmer. By Harald Jähner It’s not necessarily boring to watch a film in a language you don’t understand. You concentrate all the more on other elements of the film, gestures, body language, the landscapes, extras. … Read more Language without a childhood

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Just Published: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Selections

Happy to announce that the latest title in the Poets for the Millennium series has just been released: Ian Hamilton Finlay Selections, Edited and with an Introduction by Alec Finlay Ian Hamilton Finlay (Author), Alec Finlay (Editor) Available worldwide Poets for the Millennium University of California Press  Paperback, 334 pages ISBN: 9780520270596 March 2012 $24.95, £16.95 Hardcover, 334 pages ISBN: 9780520270589 March 2012 $60.00, £41.95 READ AN EXCERPT Read … Read more Just Published: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Selections

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Wannsee, Wahnsee…

Today is the 70th anniversary of one of the most infamous decisions humans have ever taken: the Wannsee conference that decided on the implementation of the “final solution,” i.e. the Nazi decision, deliberated over, discussed in detail, & found necessary & inevitable, of the extermination of all Jews. The proceedings were, as Adolf Eichmann, one of the participants, remembered, »Sehr ruhig, sehr freundlich, sehr höflich und sehr artig, sehr nett, und es … Read more Wannsee, Wahnsee…

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Nicole Peyrafitte @ Robert Kelly Celebrations

Here is Nicole Peyrafitte‘s performance at the Film Anthology Archives  in NYC on May 7, 2011, as part of “Logic of the World: The Poetics of Robert Kelly: Celebrating His 75th Birthday & His 50 Years Teaching at Bard College,” sponsored by The Brooklyn Rail, presented by Jonas Mekas and hosted by Phong Bui. You can find a batch of performances form that day on Opie & Anthony’s Uncensored … Read more Nicole Peyrafitte @ Robert Kelly Celebrations

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More Khatibi

Here, a second extract from Abdelkebir Khatibi’s  autobiographical 1971 novel La Mémoire tatouée as translated by Peter Thompson. A first one can be read in an earlier Nomadics post  on 20 December.    Essaouira.    Cold, often swept by the current of the Canary Islands, the beach rises from the water, pushed by the bent horizon. A pale, mischievous glance is what you’d need, to avoid the grains of sand that … Read more More Khatibi

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Simon Ortiz: Shocked at banning of Native books in Arizona

Photo: Ethnic Studies students march in honor of Martin Luther King today, Monday, in Tucson, protesting the decision by Tucson schools to forbid Mexican American Studies and ban books by Chicano and Native American authors. Photo Brenda Norrell Update: Video interviews with students in the forbidden classes, during today’s Martin Luther King Day rally in Tucson: http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com TUCSON — Simon Ortiz, world acclaimed poet, author and professor, responded to the … Read more Simon Ortiz: Shocked at banning of Native books in Arizona

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