Book Review: Ai WeiWei speaks…with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Please click here to visit the IJR-bookshelf. We met in one of my most favorite places in Europe: The Museum Shop at TATE Modern, London. We spend some time together, intensive sessions, once in a local pub, over beer and fish&chips, then during our train ride back to the airport. The second time we met, he had … Read more
Book Review: How to Be an Existentialist (English).
Please click here to visit the IJR-bookshelf. During my first phenomenology-course at the University of Heidelberg, I almost gave up the idea to continue my studies of philosophy. I did not understand a single word as the professor started to talk about the two heavy-weights Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and their concepts of ‘Dasein’ (German for … Read more
Book Review: Before I Go To Sleep.
Hier geht es zum IJR-Bücherregal. Ich habe mich auf mein Bett gelegt. Die Augen geschlossen. Mir vorgestellt, meine persönliche Festplatte zu löschen; alle Erinnerungen, an Familie, Freunde, Kindheit, prägende Erlebnisse. Wie fühlt es sich an, wenn man morgens aufwacht – und realisiert, dass man alles verloren hat? „Das Schlafzimmer ist seltsam. Fremd. Ich weiß nicht, … Read more
Book review: Taschenatlas der Abgelegenen Inseln / Atlas of Remote Islands
Click here to visit the IJR-bookshelf. Judith Schalansky promises a journey of discovery with the forefinger. Starting point: The reading room for maps in the Berlin State Library. Destination: atolls with wistful names such ‘Semisopochnoi’, ’South-Thule’ or ’Loneliness’. However, readers who expect a sequence of entertaining expedition-anecdotes, will be disappointed. The ’Atlas of Remote Islands - Fifty islands I have not visited and never will’ is primarily a poetic project. A book, which is … Read more
