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Piri Reis: Scream and survive
A screamo group from Malaysia goes with the name Piri Reis, because of the fact we Fütüristika crew consists jobless people, reached the group members from here, Kadikoy Istanbul and asked fucking why to Mira Sutan, vocalist of Piri Reis. Mira explained that Piri Reis chose Piri Reis as a world should have known is a Ottoman admiral…
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A Little Fable [Franz Kafka] by Vincent Stall
“A Little Fable” (“Kleine Fabel,” in the original German) is a paragraph-long short story masterpiece by Kafka. I ran across a wonderful mini-comic adaptation of it by the American comic book artist Vincent Stall around 2004. A little fable – Franz Kafka “Alas,” said the mouse, “the whole world is growing smaller every day. At…
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[Allen B. Ruch] The Crimson Hexagon: Books Borges Never Wrote
Jorge Luis Borges: blindness. Tango poetry. blindness. Tango poetry. The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then…
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Absence: A compilation of experimental music by Iranian artists.
Faced with the task of writing about artists from Iran it is tempting to oversimplify and go with the easiest way to address them — the way most western media has always treated art coming not just from Iran but from middle east in general. This approach places artists exclusively within the political context presented…
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The Lost Writings of Marie-Madeleine In the Time of Nazis
Here are the erotic writings of a Jewish lesbian who met fame in Germany before and during the Nazi era.
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Letters from a Dead Man
“Pisma myortvogo cheloveka” screen evening in Avam Kahvesi, Kadıköy, Istanbul. Konstantin Lopushansky, who worked on Tarkovsky’s Stalker as well as making the brilliant Strugatsky brothers adaptation Gadkie Lebedi (Ugly Swans) is in fine form here. Letters from a Dead Man (Письма мёртвого человека) is filled with silent, stoic despair as only those behind the iron…
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Sumac: The recursive exercises of total chaos
SUMAC, the ear-shattering powerhouse trio of Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer), Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), and Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes), have signed to Thrill Jockey and will release their second album, the follow up to 2015’s The Deal, later this year. The trio invests in the recursive exercises of total…
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[Bilge Karasu] Fear With Variations
Bilge Karasu Translated by Serdar Metin Translation Notes on “Fear with Variations” In the following report, I will try to describe the translation process of “Çeşitlemeli Korku” (Fear with Variations) and justify the initiatives taken. First, I will give a brief overview of Bilge Karasu’s literary stance and his works in general. Unfortunately, I will…
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Everday Sounds: Exploring Sound Through Daily Life
‘Everyday Sounds’ presents its visitors a chance to engage with various sounds of urban life as well as sounds that escape one’s attention in daily life.