love this picture which i found when i was going through reports from the submidalogia#2 conference this morning: picture by criscabello. from what i can make up from his tags the picture was taken in Olinda in brazil and shows a mobile sound system used to campaign in the presidential elections (see the ‘lula e […]
after having found the children’s deposit point in lille last weekend i went on to the belgian coast to take a ride along the coast in in the kusttram (‘coast-tram’). have wanted to do this for a while as i am (a) a sucker for public transport and (b) i really like the idea of […]
last weekend saw the third edition of dictionary of war. this project is currently collecting 100 concepts on the issue of war, which are presented by scientists, artists, theorists and activists at four events in Frankfurt, Munich, Graz and Berlin. Among those presenting in Graz was Lawrence Liang of the Alternative Law Forum in Bangalore […]
it is not very often that those who are supposed to be the weakest members of a social group manage to slip through policies designed to exclude them from resources. apparently though, this seems to be what is happening in the case of the stupid language tests that the dutch government has imposed on would […]
have been writing about the low average age of the visible population of Lille two days ago. here is my absolute favorite inhabitant of the fine city of Lille. young upstanding citizen of asian origin escorting his mother back home from church on sunday morning: Technorati Tags: guns, kids, lille
too sweet! wish i could buy this here in the netherlands, but apparently this brand is available in costa rica only…
absolutely no idea why it is called lille *3000* and not some other arbitrary number, but apparently the local government decided that 3000 sounds mighty futuristic (and 2006 would be so last year in three months anyway)and here we go… i am also not sure if lille 3000 is the same as the ‘bombaysers de […]
a little bit more than a year ago 11 people burned to death, locked up in a deportation prison on the premises of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. they had been locked-up there because their presence in the Netherlands had been deemed illegal by the xenophobic dutch government. a while ago some organizations staged a poster competition […]
patrice (thanks!) posted a translation of a posting by the french philosopher Frédéric Neyrat to the internal multitudes mailing list to nettime. it was made as a comment on the appeal by French intellectuals for a Salman-Rushdie-style protection of Robert Redeker, a philosopher threatened by fundamentalist groups after publishing statements deemed insulting to Muslim culture […]