Giving – carnage, gifts and singing about it
Today, the islands in the Pacific are almost only talked about in connection with climate change. The Melanesian culture stands for a great invention: maritime trade based on gifts. Photo:…
AmRande – Freedom is a Porsche engine
The capitalist fetish object par excellence: the car. The more climate-damaging, the better. Foto: IMAGO/imagebroker At Christmas we won’t buy again, how stupid, no, we’ll also donate. But the view…
Consumerism – better, cheaper, hotter
Buy! Buy! Buy! Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Fabian Sommer The commercial nature dominates the world. His subjects walk through the universe of business like monads, i.e. windowless beings. The buyer…
Talke Talks – Assad, Moo Dengund Baby Jesus
What is the Pope doing with Baby Jesus? Photo: picture alliance / Claudio Peri/ANSA/dpa | Claudio Peri Howdy from Texas, dear readers, You have the last Talks column of the…
Give and Take – Do ut des
Foto: picture-alliance/dpa Who else knows what that handshake symbolized? Today’s young people probably don’t. Deal? In some respects, yes. Do ut des. This for that. Give and take. Literally: Manus…
consumer politics | Remain active and passive
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East India Company – The Curse of the Nutmeg
Drying nutmegs: Plantations have long existed elsewhere, such as here in Java. Photo: IMAGO/Depositphotos Travelers report that anyone who heads to the island of Run by speedboat will be greeted…
Pornography – DJ Mao Porn Star
Anyone who can master acrobatic sex positions and is as ambitious as Mao Hamasaki can also learn the craft of DJing. Foto: Spaceplus When Mao Hamasaki mixes a reference from…
TV annual review – bizarre bloodsuckers and boring legends
“The Upir” with Rocko Schamoni and Fahri Yardim: Vampire stories with a difference Photo: dpa/Christoph Köstlin When the world is teetering towards the abyss, television is either escape or confrontation,…
Bedroom Pop – Broadcast: More porous is nicer
Back to fragility: Broadcast 2010 at Sónar Galicia in A Coruña. Photo: wikimedia/Alberto Garcia The music of Birmingham-based Broadcast has always flown somewhat under the radar in the electronica universe…