4.1. – 20.12.25: ???
Week
4/2025:
PULP & BOUDIN NOIR.
AI had its job replaced by AI. “La caille que j’ai mangée hier avec mon bon collègue m’a beaucoup plu.” Jeg kan godt lide den københavnske tåge. It’s refreshing. Katharina Klement & Doechii. Violence against the river. I like when movies don’t have a musical soundtrack. Radiostück für Stereo-Kopfhörer. SOME NEW SHIT.
Week
3/2025:
AFFECT DELIVERY.
The unfamiliar smells and the sounds of birds and rodent I never heard before kept me awake. Pursueing our cravings. Music for Pleasure. We all worship in our very own way. Cultural Histories of Meditation.
Week
2/2025:
SUN/AIR/ASHES,
“How death is simply death” (Chang, Obit, 2020, p. 12) “I say everything out loud to myself that I silvable silently“ (Egger, Farbkompartimente, 2023, p. 70; my translation) “Nowhere, absolutely nowhere was there any escape from totality.” (Deigner & Wey, Der endlos tippende Affe, 2022, 18:59; my translation) „There is not a monoaffective imaginary“ (Helms, Vishmidt & Berlant 2010) „A situation isn‘t like a jacket you can just take off the person.“ (Chang, Obit, 2020, p. 77) “a list-y, circuitous, roving vibeology.” (Kornbluh, Immediacy, 2023, 6) “We can let things live” (Chang, Obit, 2020, p. 55)
Week 1/2025: IT’S ALL BURNIGN DOWN.
It’s all burning down, and that’s apparently what the people in power and capital had in mind all along. Around 1989/1990, when excessive populism, disinformation and incitement to violence against minority groups in society were used in Germany to enrich the most powerful and exploit their followers even more, I could not avoid a deep depression. These days I try very hard to work against it. At the moment I am not so sure that I will succeed.
In The Year of 2024
(as always: in alphabetical order;
January 4, 2025)
Words Of The Year
Quincy Jones
Autobiography
Israel Martinez
Dead People Whispering to Us
Nile Rodgers
Le Freak
Nikhil Singh
Club Ded
Nikhil Singh
Dakini Atoll
Sounds Of The Year
Alice Coltrane
The Carnegie Hall Concert
Aphex Twin
Music From The Merch Desk (2016-2023)
Charli XCX
brat
Jeff Mills
The Eye Witness
Zeitblom
Bio-Membran
Performances Of The Year
boeseblick ensemble a.k.a. Alessandara Eramo, Korhan Erel, Ariel Orah & Kirsten Reese
Galiläakirche Berlin, September 14, 2024
Miya Masaoka
SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, March 17, 2024
Quartet Vivancos
Museu Pau Casals El Vendrell, August 10, 2024
Sote
WUK / unsafe+sounds Wien, September 11, 2024
ensemble mosaik
Silent Green Berlin, November 24, 2024
Thoughts Of The Year
Jules Gill-Peterson
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Kathleen Stewart
Ordinary Affects
Kathleen Stewart & Lauren Berlant
The Hundreds
Salomé Voegelin
Unperforming the Dream House
McKenzie Wark
Love and Money, Sex and Death