bech over at remakz shares a rather amuzing metadata conflict involving Hezbollah and Snoop Doggy Dog: from the anecdote file where we find the joys of being a researcher on Hizbullah Buy one of the many cds of Hizbullah ‘chants’ (anashid). For example, the volume 12 of Firkat el Asra’,, Al Moqawama wal Tahrir. Open […]

which – off course – is totally not true, but this barricade tape by San Francisco design firm MINE is just brilliant: picture (cc-by-sa-nd) by laughing squid. Technorati Tags: art, streetart, urban

so over the last three weeks i have been watching ‘kaafila‘ which bills itself as a movie based on the ‘global issue of illegal migration’. it took me 3 weeks to watch because (a) it is a Bollywood movie (and thus runs for three plus hours) and (b) because it is so incredibly bad that […]

There were meanwhile reports from Canal Sur of another four immigrants rescued a short distance off the coast of Cabo de Gata on Sunday evening after their boat sank just a mile off shore. Another man was arrested on shore after he managed to swim to the coast. All five were said to be healthy. […]

i guess it is since i first read Enki Bilal’s Partie de Chasse that i wanted to go visit the various public bath houses in Budapest. there is a scene in Partie de Chasse where Vasili Aleksandrovič ÄŒevčenko comes to Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution of 1966 to talk to Tibor Illyes, the local stalinist […]

apparently someone at the BBC has tracked down some of the migrants who got rescued after hanging on to a tuna fishing net for three days in the Mediterranean back in may. they will be featured in the documentary ‘Destination Europe‘ which airs tonight at 2030 on BBC one. there is another article based on […]

… used to be the subtitle of this blog for a while (in fact it still is, but i have not really found a place in the layout where i could put the subtitle). in the meanwhile (which is the title of the blog) collateral knowledge has teamed up with identity & aesthetics and got […]

just finished reading Eyal Weizman’s impressive Hollow Land – Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. In the book Weizman describes of how the Israeli occupation gradually hollows out what is left of Palestine, by means of architecture. His understanding of architecture is fairly broad and includes aspects like spacial theories of urban warfare, the separation wall, airborne […]