Paolo Virno, from Virno the film vs. boredom is exciting! “For me, boredom is the most informative way of ‘feeling time’. It’s about borders and limits of personal tolerance. When do we get bored? What happens after we get bored and the audio keeps going? Why weren’t we bored before? Is it possible to ‘go…
…Shitty birthday to us, Shitty birthday to us… Let’s have a look at the presents first. This would not have been necessary, you are so nice to us! (picture cropped for obvious reasons): (from a humiliation thread for cybermasochists on an online forum) As you remember from previous shituationist shitty birthday speeches, they always had…
Berlin could not afford an art hall for contemporary art, now the Deutsche Bank opens one here. And under the slogan Macht Kunst (Make Art) called for delivering pictures to them, to be all shown for 24 hours. In the revolution of 1848, the central art instance and institution (the Salon) was opened for all.…
The Shituationist Institute and five thousand Shituationists salute you. horst’s note
part 1 (written in 2007, published as textfile #412 of the Cult of the Dead Cow) part 2 (a follow up, 5 years later, published 2012 on the Shituationist Institute) and now part 3 (first published on el.blogsport.de): On cargo cult and gadget cult. „Rather than give out laptops (they‘re actually Motorola Zoom tablets plus…
1. live coverage of the upcoming cyberwar between #seapunk and pop music 2. Between crisis and creative escapism. The techno and electronic scene in Athens 3. tension, resemblance and reconciliation in the face of music 4. Fusion Festival shituationist report 2012 5. Review: Preview Berlin Art Fair
picture: fancypunk & dr0fn0thing holding the 2012 world congress of the shituationist tendency dear readers, we never aimed at being exciting, so excuse us for just carrying on with our boring little art and music blog. yours, the shituationist tendency. two or three things. as the freakin nazi party in greece is really active, profiting…
“Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years.” (wikipedia) more of that here: no-sea-punk-rihanna-copyright.tumblr.com as the screensaver and retro greenscreen rave aesthetics that the seapunks were farming on tumblr have been picked up by rihanna and azealia banks, we suggest retro-romantic surrealist mini-cinematics with broken color shemes as the next big…
my article for the German newspaper Jungle world. You can read the german translation online here It was almost 17 years ago, when the news for the rave explosion in the UK and elsewhere arrived in Athens. Well nigh from the first moment, the new subculture has spread widely in the city. Many years in…
no time for big essays, as usual, but let me share some notes about the event that we announced to you. Benedikt Braun reminded me of something i heard about last week, the principle in modern architecture to design a house according to a fridge. Femke Dekkers had some twisted new perspectives on the production…
Some days ago, on the 28th of August, the annual fuck Parade took place in Berlin. A party on the streets with lot of trucks who bombed the city with breakcore, rave classics, even gabber and happy hardcore. Fuckparade once upon a time set out to counter the commercialism and conformism of the Loveparade. More…
A report/article taken from the blog of ION from Athens. This is Athens in the times of the crisis, or better to say there is an other Athens in the times of the crisis as well Several years back a friend of mine, that happens to be a film historian, handed me a dozen of…
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