Friday, January 1, 2010

Estonia


















Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Helsinki























Sunday, November 15, 2009

Sergiyev Posad Сергиев Посад





























































Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Vereinsamung der Winterzeit



Pinecones and raw fish: Siberian delicacy















































































Vereinsamt

Die Krähen schrein
Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt:
Bald wird es schnein, -
Wohl dem, der jetzt noch - Heimat hat!

Nun stehst du starr,
Schaust rückwärts, ach! wie lange schon!
Was bist du Narr
Vor Winters in die Welt entflohn?

Die Welt - ein Tor
Zu tausend Wüsten stumm und kalt!
Wer das verlor,
Was du verlorst, macht nirgends Halt.


Nun stehst du bleich,
Zur Winter-Wanderschaft verflucht,
Dem Rauche gleich,
Der stets nach kältern Himmeln sucht.

Flieg, Vogel, schnarr
Dein Lied im Wüstenvogel-Ton! -
Versteck, du Narr,
Dein blutend Herz in Eis und Hohn!

Die Krähen schrein
Und ziehen schwirren Flugs zur Stadt:
Bald wird es schnein, -
Weh dem, der keine Heimat hat!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friday, October 30, 2009

Slavoj Žižek and Divine Violence



The young people of the banlieue simply wanted to say (to adopt a slogan from Badiou): we are here, and we are from here. It was a question of asserting their sheer existence. It was a pure demand for visibility. This is the best example of the limitations of our much-vaunted democracy. There are enormous numbers of people who find themselves in a situation where their most essential demands cannot be formulated in the language of a political problem. It’s what Roman Jakobson called "phatic" communication—not, "I want this" but simply, "here I am."


- Slavoj Žižek

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Cities on the Volga



















The next 7 photos are from the Memorial for the Battle of Stalingard in what is now Volgagrad.

























Moscow















Orthodox church in the heart of Moscow downtown














Former soviet watch factory, now valued advertising space for western luxury car advertisements




















http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russia_Exhibition_Centre

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