{ On the pre-sale trail of a teratological future } Slavoj Žižek’s latest stirring article – Unbehagen In der Natur * here in eng * takes it’s cue from Freud’s Unbehagen In der Kultur or Civilization and Its Discontents (in eng.). To decipher it’s meaning + mechanism in the midday summer heat, we sense the challenge of an inverted spelunking trip, attempting to find a jewel in the vast shifting sands and a glittering desert sun. Everything is eye-catching, blinding, or a provocation to think in shadows + negatives + retraced steps.

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{ The ingenious work of Ryohei Hase } work-in-progress Ever wonder why it’s always one giant leap for mankind and 3 steps backward for life on the planet ??! XLterrestrials have been researching the “Technotopian” mindset for some time, with the intent to illuminate that there is not only little evidence that technology leads to a sum benefit for society as a whole, but more pertinently, a wide range of technological inventions in the current predatory landscape tend to increase the chances that the planet could soon be rendered uninhabitable.

… … … :: the XLt FUNDRAISER CONTINUES ! :: We need to cover our annual server costs this week and we are currently working on an exciting application to expand the XLt interactive cinema project in 2011. It’s never been a more critical time to activate and educate global citizens than NOW! Please consider supporting our work, more info :: HERE :: … … … { Julian Assange foto by Phillip Toledano, New Yorker article. see below } Added : Update#4: 22.

< 18-21.6 > Urban Louzilla at Circus Charivari … < 18-20.6 > Emerge + See’s HYBRID METROPOLIS at Stadtbad Wedding … < 18.6 > Messr Chups at the new CCCP Bar … tbc…

{ from Peruvian artist, not yet identified, found in Cafe Macondo in Cusco, Peru } It’s one of those weird + telling synchronicities that the Oiligarchy named its well in the Gulf “Macondo Prospect”, which happens to be “a fictional town described in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. A town, which “grows from a tiny settlement with almost no contact with the outside world, to eventually become a large and thriving place, before a banana plantation is set up.

{ circus charivari just “outside the fences” of Btropolis } In all seriousness ; ) if DIY theater could be codified into a wide-spread social outbreak, could the escape hatch of art then become an uncontainable leak of the irrational psyche in action? Not as a black hole but a color-spectrum gusher which could paint all order of darkness into a top hat and presto! be disappeared … like a stuffed rabbit sent into the ether for a restuffing, or more importantly, a detaxidermification !

{ FRANCISZEK STAROWIEYSKI … and revisiting the ABCs of Transmigration } Recent participation in the Globale doc Fest and The Documentary Forum 1 in Berlin combined with the painful miasma of recent news flow from the unabated (and undistancible ) toxic BP spillage + plunder+ spin, Republicrat complicities, and the mad dog political game theory fired upon the heads of humanitarian aid workers at point blank aboard the Gaza Flotilla, the source of an internal eruption forces us to reformulate a current invitation to spectacular dissent and/or a fully-armed escape artistry and/or day-to-day creative living!

{ the politicians are easily capped, no worries! } What’s-the-big-deal?- Biden’s appearance on Charlie Rose is an amazingly slick piece of work. And a very telling interview of just how far below sea level the Republicrat Ship Of State can actually go. The puppetry and engineering of wide-ranging policies by Transnationals, Wall Street, Oiligarchy, Insurance Companies, […]

… … < 2.6 > Kerieva CD Launch Party w/ Dr Das + Biyby, London < 3.6 > Gogol Bordello at Astra, Berlin < 3-5.6 > Check Bounds Festival, Stadtbad Wedding < 4-5.6 > Benefit Beats at Kato w/ La Plataforma + Luca Amada at Kato in Kberg < 5.6 > MediaSpree entern! Action, links/info at Stressfaktor, Berlin < 2-6. 6 > […]