Der Himmel über der Nespresso-Zentrale in Avenches (Hommage an Bruno Ganz).

Sunrise and Infrastructure, Lac de Neuchâtel

Can't help but think of the pandemic and the Iran War as dress rehearsals for how not to do the green transition.

Diesmal melden sich die reaktionären Arschlöcher gleich schon am Debattenstart zu Wort.

« [Les auteurs de] propos racistes ne sont quasiment jamais condamnés. Pire, ils sont trop souvent applaudis. Cette violence qui perdure, issue du suprématisme blanc, raconte un certain Occident, qui place aujourd’hui encore le « Blanc » en haut de l’échelle des valeurs des humains » Lilian Thuram

Yup. Truth. #NoKings

It cannot be stressed enough how much legacy media hates activists. The whole basis of the "objectivity" artifice is that human dignity is up for debate, so anyone who thinks it isn't makes them uncomfortable and is inherently the enemy.

History is the only education; everything else is training.

Reading. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

Usually we think of zugzwang as being imposed by the adversary. Trump is the master of imposing it on himself.

Trump's War: A Hegemonic Tragedy in Five Acts Act I

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Winter’s return

A heat map of left vs right Parisian voters put next to a heat map of number of cats in Paris for no particular reason

every single part of this idiot, stupid war from this idiot, stupid president and his idiot, stupid ally is ripped straight from the WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT DO THIS section of the handbook every powerful country has been reading for at least five decades

Just when you thought the US already had that.

Sand. Akwanga, Nigeria.

When you‘re on a highway in Nigeria and have much better internet than on a Deutsche Bahn train.

Att. Prof. Gumbrecht

Cooking gas, Akwanga, Nigeria

This is why China built their highspeed rail network using German rather than French trains as their model

Cf. Marcel Carné, Les enfants du Paradid

For all the US and Israeli dominance of the conventional aspects of the war so far, Iran clearly has a more coherent theory of victory (regime survival) and a more effective strategy to achieve it, mainly because it has a more precise notion of the enemy's center of gravity (global energy markets).

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

„the social sciences must be inocculated against parasitic ideas“. Published days after Habermas’ passing. National socialism, once merely the most powerful political idea of Modern Germany (with discursive rationality as its struggling echo), is now a Global Intellectual Blockbuster Movement.

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Stellungnahme des Beirats der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft zur Bedrohung von Kunst- und Wissenschaftsfreiheit aus Anlass von Normverletzungen des Staatsministers für Kultur und Medien im Zusammenhang mit der Berlinale und dem deutschen Buchhandelspreis gfmedienwissenschaft.de/news/stellun...

Disco matters.

Weimer, dessen völkischer Sprach-und Denkraum sich in den von ihm bemühten Kampfbegriffen wie „Tugendterror“, „grüne Höllenideologie“, „Öko-Sozialisstische Bedrohung“ und Kampf gegen Feminismus kartieren lässt, ist kein Förderer von Kultur, sondern einer, der kulturelle Selektion als Waffe benutzt.

Fantastic piece by @hennefem.bsky.social on “a resurgent movement to preserve, restore, and contextualize vital works of feminist filmmaking.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/femi...

Léman printanier océanique

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

Claire Denis and Andrew Litwack revealing the ending of THE FENCE to the barman who couldn’t watch the film at the Capitole Cinema at the Cinémathèque suisse.

Office view of Lake Geneva. Bonus attraction: Adorno talking to the police during the student occupation of the Institute for Social Research in 1968 (c Barbara Klemm).

Was hearing a weird amount of pop culture critics throwing shade on Sinners this past week, but I have to say, after hearing Ryan Coogler lifting up educators & saying he's honoured by professors who might teach his work, if you still don't understand why people dig this man, you're choosing not to.

Reminds me of an official who kept lecturing me about Germany *after* admitting that he had read precisely 2 books about German history in his entire life. Which is less than the number of books about Britain I have read per month for the last 20 years. But what do I know.

I would even go so far as to say

CDU gewinnt in Hessen, Paul Thomas Anderson in Hollywood. What a way to start a week.

A few months ago Christopher Small published an in-depth exposé of the Swiss-french ties an funding sources of Czech agro-billionaire and pro-Russian PM Babis. Here he tackles another figure with significant ties to the French speaking part of Switzerland: the / www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ci...

The Americans on this website don’t seem to realise how much better this is than so, so many German intellectuals of his generation

Snippet from @nickcohen.bsky.social that really resonates.

Jürgen Habermas in conversation with Tor Iorappu, professor of theater studies at the University of Jos, on the occasion of the philosopher‘s 90th birthday reception at Normative Orders in Frankfurt, June 2019.

Since I was 21, I’ve seen myself as chasing and being chased by questions. Open inquiry, discovery, iterating, going back to the drawing board, reiterating… and so on—that’s what drives me. I see myself as a pursuer of knowledge first, a producer second. (And I’ve still been very, very productive!)

Wes Anderson taking a selfie with the staff and crew of the Capitole at the Cinémathèque suisse at the start of tonight‘s screening of The Royal Tennenbaums

Und doch, Angela Merkel ist Feministin. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/f...

Kultur der Lüge www.prigge-recht.de/pressemittei...

Als Wolfram Weimer im Mai 2025 Kulturstaatsminister wurde, waren die Befürchtungen groß. Zu groß, sagten manche. "Lasst ihn doch erstmal ankommen, gebt ihm eine Chance." Zehn Monate später lässt sich sagen: Er hat die schlimmsten Erwartungen nicht erfüllt. Er hat sie übertroffen. Ein Thread. 🧵

Precht ist die Personifizierung des Patriarchats. Du kannst als Mann jeden beliebigen Schwachsinn erzählen zu Themen von denen du absolut keine Ahnung hast und wirst trotzdem jeden zweiten Tag durch sämtliche TV Shows und Bühnen gereicht. Und am Ende weinst du noch, dass dich jemand cancelt.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food