Airport Location is a small menubar app for Snow Leopard laptops and desktops. When you ask it to it records dozens of settings by taking a Snapshot of your computer just the way it is setup at that time. You can have as many Snapshots as you want – one for Travel, one for Office, one for Home, one for watching Movies etc.
Test run of (d)iskette (O)rgan doing Toccata & Fugue. Watch and listen!
After years of freelance blogging, I turned pro: At the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation. Continue Reading »
Military Rituals. The Aesthetics of State Violence. Critics and Analysis of an Instrument of Dominance in its historic-systematic Context
by Markus Euskirchen
In military rituals modern nation states present themselves by showing their monopoly on violence in a ritualized manner. This work asks How are military rituals working? and Why do they exist? (and: How influences one answer the other?). A discussion of notions of ritual in social sciences on one hand and of the modern nation states monopoly on physical force on the other are the theoretical core and the context which is needed to understand military ritual as a socio-political phenomenon. Continue Reading »
In past years, illegal commercial trawlers parked off Somalia’s coast and scooped up the ocean’s contents. Now, fishermen on the northern coast of neighboring Kenya say, the trawlers are not coming because of pirates. “There is a lot of fish now, there is plenty of fish. There is more fish than people can actually use because the international fishermen have been scared away by the pirates,” said Athman Seif, the director of the Malindi Marine Association. Read more
See our (with Henrik Lebuhn and Gene Ray) follow up of our first Borderland-article: Big Trouble in Borderland: Immigration Rights and No-Border Struggles in Europe, published in metamute, the web page of mute magazine, culture and politics after the net.
work around it yourself: patch your dvd-drive (before it gets locked to one particular region) with a region free firmware (i got mine here. do not neglect the warnings: patching your drive with the wrong patch can ruin it forever!). Learn about your particular dvd-drive in ‘system profiler’ or via ‘about this mac’/more information…
once you did that: reset your dvd drive’s amount of region changes as often as you want by using the neet little program Region X.
…Blick: Hollow Land. The Architecture of Occupation: An exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation. From the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, the mechanisms of control and the transformation of the Occupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice is shown, in which natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition with which the conflict is waged. Und bei aller Perspektivenkritik nicht ganz ohne Relevanz: Kartenmaterial. Ein kleiner Video-Clip mit moderierten Landkarten bietet einen recht vernünftig geratenen Einstieg/Überblick über die Problematik Mauer/Grüne Linie, aus der arte-Reihe “Mit offenen Karten”.
