The SBB (Swiss federal train company) has dedicated a train to the Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach!
Schwarzenbach in the Engadine (CH), 1938
Describing her as a Swiss traveller, these two quotes are printed in some of the carriages,
“Wir müssen auf eine neue Brüderschaft [sic] trinken, auf die Sinnlosigkeit, die Unwegsamkeit, die tastende Spur.”
“Die Gnade dieser Erde ist überschwänglich, wenn wir nur die Stimme erheben.”
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“Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen”, Die Zauberflöte
(MET, 1961) Love Kathleen Battle!
Although the music is unbeatable on every level, I have a slight problem with some of the lyrics. Otherwise one of the best operas, if not the best opera, ever made.
So if not ‘love’ then at least Mozart’s music will spice up one’s life!!
a few weeks ago my bike was stolen. left was only a demolished bike chain. an hour later, the bike was on sale on various websites.
the institution in charge of dealing with such issues knew that but nothing was done…
Fazit: one fewer item to make one sorry to leave london soon… r.i.p. my beautiful bike! i hope your new ‘owner’ takes as much care of you as i did.
(this is of course not my bike. photo purely for illustrative purposes, d’uh)
the ultimate video that much current cultural industry output //might// be modelled on …
love the go-betweens
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If you haven’t laughed today, check out how Plato ‘explains’ forms –by coming up with the notion of ‘bedness’, the way beds, based on the idea of a ‘bed’, are made. . .
Gotta love it.
Certainly not the number one of sophisticated distinction but I simply have a faible pour l’attitude de ce type de pop. I guess, I love it.
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stairs at the Albertina museum in Vienna.
makes the heart sing. 🙂
“You can’t run a market on the basis of equality.”
Lord Sainsbury
On event of the publication of a new book, Lord Sainsbury gave a public lecture tonight, 20 May, at LSE. The lecture presented his political economy model, ‘progressive capitalism’, which stresses 1) the crucial role of institutions, 2) the crucial role of the state as ‘enabler’ for ‘progressive capitalism’ and the design of the institutions that carry it, and 3) the importance of social justice, defined as fairness, in a country’s (economic) performance.
Lord Sainsbury presented this model not, as he made sure to assert, as a critique but a defence of capitalism, for he does not see the model of capitalism as inherently flawed. Rather, he argued that the recent financial turbulences were ‘flaws’ of the short-terminism of the current orthodoxy of neoliberalism, which focussed on appropriational wealth rather than the creation of wealth.
Comparing this criticism to the above quote, the vigilant reader might find them contradictory. This was echoed in the audience’s awkward questions trying to establish the model’s degree of radicalism. (Very funny.) I can only say that even though the above quote might shock the self-righteous liberal mind, inequality (of ‘resources’) as the basis of ‘the market’ is nevertheless somewhat of a given in orthodox (and heterodox) economic modelling.
On the whole, then, careful conceptual debate and the speaker’s polite yet not uncritical realism made it a refreshing experience to witness alternative economic modelling in the mainstream.
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