How to avoid eating the world:

From degrowth to a sustainable food system transformation Press release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 05/16/2022 • To make our food system more sustainable, curbing growth or shifting incomes alone won’t do it • People’s eating habits change towards more climate-harming choices already at small income increases • What’s needed is changing what we eat, changing what and how we grow, and a price on … Read more How to avoid eating the world:

WordCaves: Celan’s Insi/ght/de/s

A poem from Paul Celan’s volume Threadsuns in my translation. It is one of Celan’s more programmatic poems, speaking as it does to his writing in the later years, starting with Breathturn, & gathered in Breathturn into Timestead. KLEIDE DIE WORTHÖHLEN AUS mit Pantherhäuten, erweitere sie, fellhin und fellher, sinnhin und sinnher, gib ihnen Vorhöfe, Kammern, Klappen und Wildnisse, parietal, und lausch ihrem zweiten und jeweils zweiten und zweiten … Read more WordCaves: Celan’s Insi/ght/de/s

CO2 & Covid-19

Press Release from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) 10/14/2020 Biggest CO2 drop: Real-time data show Covid-19’s massive impact on global emissions While the ongoing Corona pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in CO2 emissions – larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War … Read more CO2 & Covid-19

Mohammed Dib: Celebrating 100 Years

Via the always excellent ArabLit Today: The great Algerian author Mohammed Dib was born 100 years ago today: At least four French publications are celebrating the Dib centenary: There has been a reissue of Dib’s collection Formulaires, a co-edition of his book of photographs and memoirs of Tlemcen (Tlemcen or Places of Writing), a special section in the magazine Europe, and a special edition of Fassl that focuses on writing about Dib. Young Mohammed Dib. The novelist, … Read more Mohammed Dib: Celebrating 100 Years

Safaa Fathy: Souffler un autre esprit / Breathe another spirit

Egyptian/French poet, filmmaker & philosopher Safaa Fathy gives a reading/talk in the context of “Philosopher en temps d’épidémie” with English subtitles. also check out:

Commentaries on 6 Paul Celan Poems

Re: Tenebrae, White and Light, Speech-Grille, Snowbed, Matière de Bretagne & Rubble Scow These are reduced translated versions, with some additional materials, of Barbara Wiedemann’s superb KOMMENTAR in her Paul Celan: Neue kommentierte Gesamtausgabe. Die Gedichte (Suhrkamp 2018) All poems taken from Sprachgitter | Speechgrille: All poems in this 1959 volume were written between 3. 6. 1955 and 11. 3. 1958. Speechgrille is the smallest of Celan’s collections; the period in question — … Read more Commentaries on 6 Paul Celan Poems

Mahmood Darwish: Opening Pages of “Memory of Forgetfulness”

Getting up on the first morning after we started shelter-in-place here in New York, I went as always straight to the kitchen to start the ritual of making coffee — & immediately thought that the book I wanted/needed to reread at that/this moment was Mahmood Darwish’s Memory of Forgetfulness, which I have done on other occasions over the years since it was published by the University of California Press … Read more Mahmood Darwish: Opening Pages of “Memory of Forgetfulness”

Meanwhile, & despite the Virus, Global Warming Needs Action Too!

Press Release by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research 23/03/2020 Coal exit benefits outweigh its costs Coal combustion is not only the single most important source of CO2, accounting for more than a third of global emissions, but also a major contributor to detrimental effects on public health and biodiversity. Yet, globally phasing out coal remains one of the hardest political nuts to crack. New computer simulations by … Read more Meanwhile, & despite the Virus, Global Warming Needs Action Too!

More Michel Deguy…

… below now the video recording of the prose (i.e. philosophy)-part that follows the previous day’s poem (I have not had time to translate this; will try to do so in the future):

Michel Deguy: “Coronation”

CORONATION “The coronavirus”… already a hemistich! The epigram can cadence ! Contamination comes down the Contamines Your confines my confines confine themselves But our confines overwhelm confinement Wewe contaminates itself I hear the economy shrink in the purse-exchanges Ten million Chinese will have lost face Masks and videos glare & face off Fat Trump has tweeted “No virus in the States” Putin has put God … Read more Michel Deguy: “Coronation”

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