Parecon

Yesterday I listened to a talk by Michael Albert (IOPS, International Organization for a Participatory Society) who presented the idea of Participatory Economics (Parecon). Parecon proposes an alternative to capitalism and builds on the following five pillars: Solidarity - Diversity - Self-managing councils - Equitable remuneration - Empowering work. If you are interested, check out the following short summary: http://www.zcommunications.org/parecon-summary-flyer-by-michael-albert

documenta13 - kunst, wissenschaft, natur ?

Impressions from a visit to documenta13 in Kassel in September 2012. Top: 40 tons of discarded metal in Kassel Hbf; center: windscreen wipers in documenta-halle; bottom: bar "loyal arts" in Schillerstr

Weltstadt mit Herz

Beobachtungen in München, 28 April 2012

And suddenly we found a system

Botanical Garden, Berlin, 15 April 2012

YES, THIS YEAR IT'S DOCUMENTA

Exhibit by unknown artist @ YES, THIS YEAR IT'S DOCUMENTA Groupshow @ KREUZBERG PAVILLON, Berlin, 29 March 2012

Ostsee Ostern 2012: the storm that didn't come

Halbinsel Fischland-Darß-Zingst. Top: Pension Frau Opaska; Bottom: North of the lighthouse

Große Kunst ist...

...sich ein soziales Umfeld zu schaffen, in dem mensch die eigenen Potentiale für sich und die Gesellschaft realisieren kann.

Three Tenets of Germany's Higher Education Research System in 2012 (a critical perspective)

- Individualism (e.g., your name is your brand)
- Competition (e.g., publish or perish)
- Precarity (e.g., short-term contracts)

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Written by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Berlin, ein Komplementärkontrast.

Berlin, 18.02.2012

A solid proposal

"Lokale Wirtschaftskreisläufe
kostenlose Lebensgüter:
Wasser/Boden
Energie
Wohnen
Gesundheit
Bildung
Verkehr
Arbeit = gemeinsame Pflege
von Mensch
und Natur"

Worlwide Occupy Demo, 15 Jan 2012, Berlin, Unter den Linden

The Art of Science

"Trudelturm", HU Berlin/Campus Adlershof, 14Jan2012