August 2010
1 post
Anstoß
It is important to bear in mind the two primary meanings of Anstoss in German: check, obstacle, hindrance, something that resists the boundless expansion of our striving, but also impetus, stimulus, something that incites our activity. Anstoss is not simply the obstacle the absolute I posits to itself in order to stimulate its activity so that, by overcoming the self-posited obstacle, it asserts...
December 2009
1 post
INTERVIEW WITH YOKO ONO (1984)
November 1984 New York City
Q: We crossed out death on our list. YO: Yes, we have rather exhausted that subject, I think. I’m not going to say “no” to any issue. In other words, don’t worry about it, it just scared me when I saw the list, but you know, if you just ask me naturally, it doesn’t hurt me. It will be like a Rorschach test. When you say something,...
November 2009
2 posts
You have eight balls, all of the same size…
…7 of them weigh the same, and one of them weighs slightly more. How can you find the ball that is heavier by using a balance and only two weighings?
Answer:
Take 6 of the 8 balls and put 3 on each side of the scale. If the heavy ball isn’t in the group of 6, you know it’s one of the remaining 2 and so you put those two in the scale and determine which one. If the heavy ball is in...
A Report to an Academy
Honored members of the Academy! You have done me the honor of inviting me to give your Academy an account of the life I formerly led as an ape. I regret that I cannot comply with your request to the extent you desire. It is now nearly five years since I was an ape, a short space of time, perhaps, according to the calendar, but an infinitely long time to gallop through at full speed, as I have...
October 2009
5 posts
On the Gallery
If some decrepit horse riding artist sick of tuberculosis were driven around in circles in the circus arena on a swaying horse by a whip-swinging merciless boss for months without pause, whirring on the horse, blowing kisses, swaying with her waist, and if this play continued under the never-ending roaring of the orchestra and of the fans until the ever-opening gray future, accompanied by dying...
September 2009
2 posts
WatchGeorgette Dee - Seeräuber Jenny
August 2009
3 posts
Franz Ferdinand - Womanizer
