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Some of us are going to get more money and be worth more. There are some people who are destined for celebrity or wealth or power, but by and large, the average American, the average person in the world on planet earth, is worth less and less. That’s the triumph of capital, and that is the problem. You look at that, and you think that’s what we’ve come to and that’s where we’re going and it’s like, “Can you tell me another bedtime story about how people are special and every one of us matters? Can you tell me that shit?”

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Neveldine and Taylor are quite capable of the sort of somber prettiness that often gets mistaken for beauty; they just happen to be no more interested in it than in a million other distractions that might pop into their heads. This is both the sort of movie that has a character named Rick Rape and the sort of movie that imagines what the working class would have to do in its fantasy scenario.

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For me, the crucial discovery of modernist theory and art is that libido is inorganic: as everyone from Freud through to Eisenstein and Burroughs have recognised, libido montages, it cuts and pastes, it's no respecter of organic wholeness.

2009

Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman)
Un Conte De Noel (Desplechin)
The Hurt Locker (Bigelow)
Yi ngoi - Accident (Pou-Soi Cheang)
Home (Meier)
35 Rhums (Denis)
Public Enemies (Mann)
The Box (Kelly)
Coraline (Selick)
Der Knochenmann (Murnberger/Haas/Hader)
Gamer (Neveldine/Taylor)
Revanche (Spielmann)
Summer Hours (Assayas)
Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino)
De La Guerre (Bonello)
Jerichow (Petzold)
Extract (Judge)

Mad Men - S3
Lost - S5
The Big Bang Theory - S2/3
Dollhouse - S1/2
Life - S2
Breaking Bad - S2
True Blood - S2
Curb Your Enthusiasm - S7
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia - S5
Dexter - S4
The Daily Show

Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Deradoorian - Mind Raft
Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
Eleni Mandell - Artificial Fire
Fleur Earth Experiment - Soul Des Cabots
Hudson Mohawke - Butter
Pj Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Rihanna - Rated R
VA- Dark Was The Night
Henrik Schwarz -The Grandfather Paradox (Mix)
DJ/Rupture + Matt Shadetek - Solar Life Raft
Electrik Red - How To Be A Lady

Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
China Miéville - The City And The City
Dietmar Dath - Sie schläft

2008

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Those who had read the absurd story selected a higher number of strings as being consistent with the pattern. More importantly, they "demonstrated greater accuracy in identifying the genuinely pattern-congruent letter strings," the researchers report. This suggests "the cognitive mechanisms responsible for implicitly learning statistical regularities" are enhanced when we struggle to find meaning in a fragmented narrative.

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Are we close to building a machine that can meaningfully be described as sentient?

I'm an empirical kind of guy, and there is just no evidence of an artificial toehold in sentience. It is often forgotten that the idea of mind or brain as computational is merely an assumption, not a truth. When I point this out to "believers" in the computational theory of mind, some of their arguments are almost religious. They say, "What else could there be? Do you think mind is supernatural?" But accepting mind as a physical entity does not tell us what kind of physical entity it is. It could be a physical system that cannot be recreated by a computer.

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Nach der Rationalisierung von Raum und Zeit folgt der Angriff aufs Ich: Ritalin befähigt, persönliche Grenzen zu überwinden, um Schritt halten zu können. Gleichzeitig wird so die kapitalistische Produktivität gesteigert. Jeder Chef hätte Freude, wenn er meinen Arbeitseinsatz sähe. Andere Bedürfnisse werden vernachlässigbar. In Jokeits Worten: «Mit der Pharmakologie zur kognitiven Leistungssteigerung werden Human Resources auf neuronaler Ebene des Selbst angezapft. Was folgt, ist die Abstraktion des Ich von sich selbst.»

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Fast scheint mir, die Anderen haben längst gewonnen. Zu massiv tauchen all diese neokonservatven Topoi nun auch auf der Linken auf – diese Gängelung von Zersetzung, Beliebigkeit, Denkoffenheit, Pluralität und nun auch noch der Vorwurf, man würde Traditionen ignorieren.

Auch das haben die Postmoderne und Habermas gleichermaßen dargestellt: Traditionen eignet man sich an, geht aktiv mit ihnen um, unterwirft sich jedoch nicht. Verbleibt im Modus der Kritik, ohne christliche Selbstkasteiung fortzuschreiben, und gesteht sich Emotionalität und Intensität auch zu.

Gibt man all das preis, dann überlässt man den Neokonservativen das Feld und wird ggf. selbst einer.

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If humans are seeking machines, we've now created the perfect machines to allow us to seek endlessly. This perhaps should make us cautious. In Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin writes of driving two indoor cats crazy by flicking a laser pointer around the room. They wouldn't stop stalking and pouncing on this ungraspable dot of light—their dopamine system pumping. She writes that no wild cat would indulge in such useless behavior: "A cat wants to catch the mouse, not chase it in circles forever." She says "mindless chasing" makes an animal less likely to meet its real needs "because it short-circuits intelligent stalking behavior."

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I think with this show, I want to say to the people who have, you know, felt a connection with me, that maybe you want to back away and avoid eye contact,” he said. “That maybe there’s something horribly wrong with me, and this is my very poetical way of expressing that. I think of it as a work that actually frightens me at times in a way that my shows seldom got to. At the same time I have that sort of jolly love of everything that’s going on and have to be reminded that what I’m doing is reprehensible. So it’s a mature work in the sense that I grew up and went insane.

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Men's alienation from women apparently makes sex so big and scary a prospect in these movies the only way they can make sense of the experience is to huddle together cracking foxy at each other and talking it out over card games.

The problem is that the term "bromance" itself keeps what's been banished still half-conscious just beneath the surface of male interactions. By giving this ambiguity an out loud name, our culture has focused and magnified its uneasiness with the liquid nature of sensuality, at least in terms of movies.

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Ich empfehle den Augenblick, in dem Musik entsteht, zu genießen und den Künstlern zuzuhören. Dann befindet man sich als Konsument in derselben Gegenwart wie der Künstler, teilt im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes einen Raum und einen Moment. Dann bekommt man ein Gespür für das Wesen von Gegenwart. Und von mir aus fällt es einem dann später leichter, das zuvor Erlebte als ›gut‹ oder ›schlecht‹ zu erinnern – dann, wenn man sich längst wieder in einer späteren Gegenwart bewegt, in der man sich hoffentlich abermals mit Offenheit dem Neuen, dem Unbekannten widmet.

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Innerhalb von Sekunden erkennt man an dem grundlosen Lachen der Hauptdarstellerin, der grundlosen Wortlosigkeit des Hauptdarstellers und der grundlosen Ungepflegtheit und Verwahrlosung beider, daß man in einem deutschen Film ist. Das Ungepflegte soll Authentizität bedeuten, das Sprachlose ebenso, und das andauernde Lachen Sexyness sowie ‘Am Anfang war alles gut’. Nun setzt die Handlung ein. Also das Ungute, das Verderben, der sich öffnende Abgrund, eben die deutsche Stimmung.

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Das Lügen ist ganz allgemein schwer zu kritisieren und die Kritik daran mühsam, ganz besonders die am geschickten Lügen. Das geschickte Lügen ist im Kern meist eine Ideologie und wird von den Lügnern selbst oft geglaubt. Ideologiekritik hat den Nachteil, dass sie sehr leicht ins Rechthaberische und Besserwisserische kippt und dann maximal noch dem Ausführenden und seinen drei besten Freunden gefällt.

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I did an experiment. I found the Common Reader reprint edition of “Love Conquers All” and read the very same wasp passage. I laughed: ha-ha. Then I went back to the Kindle 2 and read the wasp passage again. No laugh. Of course, by then I’d read the passage three times, and it wasn’t that funny anymore. But the point is that it wasn’t funny the first time I came to it, when it was enscreened on the Kindle. Monotype Caecilia was grim and Calvinist; it had a way of reducing everything to arbitrary heaps of words.

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Nicht auszudenken, wenn die Post auch alle Briefe kontrollieren müsste. Denn nur dann ist ja die Forderung der Politiker erfüllt, dass die Onlinewelt der Offlinewelt im juristischen Sinne entspricht. Auch müsste man aus den Büchereien alle Bücher mit Bombenbauanleitungen entfernen, denn die darf es auf dem Netz auch nicht geben. Schlüsseldienste müssen ebenso zumachen, denn in der Onlinewelt sind Hackertools, auch wenn sie für Sicherheit sorgen, verboten.

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John Peel on the other hand got so many records and tapes that he reckoned it took him 15 seconds to tell whether anything was any good. Or was it 7 seconds? It doesn’t matter. When you have so much music, you can hardly tell the Beach Boys from the Bay City Rollers, it’s as Paul Virilio wrote, an essential loss of perspective. Or according to Baudrillard, The Final Illusion. You could say that the sense of perspective pioneered by the Renaissance artists, exploded by the Romantics, split in 3 by the Dadaists, finally ends up in a black hole of pattern generation and repetition.

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