Author: Futuristika
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Denovali Festival
After already two very successfull festival editions at Radialsystem Berlin and London’s St Johns Sessions in late spring, Denovali Festival is returning to home edition in the city of Essen/Germany with a 4-day-long festival, happening during the first weekend of October 2015. This years editions comes with a special focus on audiovisual performances. 10 artists extendend…
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The Soviet Space Programme – Space Is Hell
Space Is Hell by The Soviet Space Programme Vostok Zero, the first human spaceflight, was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Soviet Union on 1st April 1961, piloted by Colonel Ivan Ivanovich – a cosmonaut whose name has been entirely expurgated from even the most restricted secret records of the Soviet Space Programme. During the…
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Clarice Lispector – The Smallest Woman in the World
In the depths of Equatorial Africa the French explorer, Marcel Pretre, hunter and man of the world, came across a tribe of surprisingly small pygmies. Therefore he was even more surprised when he was informed that a still smaller people existed, beyond forests and distances. So he plunged farther on. In the Eastern Congo, near…
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Bilge Karasu – Essay on a Dark Yalı
presents the author’s reflections on the death of the beauty of a dark yali, a historic summer mansion which epitomizes the legacy of old Istanbul in Turkey.
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[László Krasznahorkai] Isaiah Has Come
War and War: A special literary project Moon, valley, dew, death. In the year of Our Lord, in March, to be precise on the night of the third day of the month, between about four and quarter past four, that is to say a bare eight years after the two thousandth anniversary of what may…
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A Translation of “Midland in Stilfs,” a 1971 Short Story by Thomas Bernhard
Outsiders, people not in on the secret of our upbringing, are inclined to regard our demeanor, when the Englishman is here, as an insane demeanor; they, we ourselves, are inclined to regard our atmosphere at Stilfs as an artificial, insufferable atmosphere. Even though we exist in perpetual fear of our friend suddenly seek using out—for…
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[Cevdet Erek] less empty maybe
‘Cevdet Erek, is known as one of the main artists working with sound, space and rhythm in Turkish contemporary art scene.
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[Alejandro Jodorowsky] Where the Bird Sings Best
The book is a visionary family saga filled with ancestors both mythical and real.