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Wisconsin Public Radio: " Heinz Insu Fenkl is one of the world's authorities on North Korean comics . In this interview, Fenkl talks about what comic books tell us about North Korean society." Listen to the inerview at ttbook.org

This article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists that argues that science fiction influences public opinion of science and scientists and can ultimately lead to changes in science policy. Via blog.sciencefictionbiology.com

"The not equal series in Berghain fathoms the intersecting trajectories of sound research, dramaturgy, narration and affect in contemporary electronic music. The line-up put together for its second edition by Berghain and CTM leads us through various musical phases, from listening thru club, in which dramaturgical density, deep timbres, and sound's intense physicality and coarse materiality nevertheless always predominate." Read on

Nurse With Wound's surgically enhanced version of Sunn O)))'s ØØ Void record takes its sweet time building a creeping, pervasive sense of dread before bursting into flames. " Read on

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wikipedia: "The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted but unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is made via a kind of instant messaging/video conferencing machine called the speaking apparatus, with which people conduct their only activity, the sharing of ideas and knowledge. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it [...]

"Nicholas Tolkien never wanted to be an author like his famous great grandfather. Instead, when he saw the first big screen adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy at the age of 11, he began dreaming of becoming a filmmaker." Read on Nicholas Tolkein Interview - 02.12.2012 WBUR

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Beate Heinemann: The Quest for the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider " Beate Heinemann , Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, describes the LHC and its experiments, the relevance of the Higgs boson and the current state of the experimental searches." Read on

bigideas.tvo.org. "What will it mean to be human in the future? Uploading consciousness into virtual worlds and prolonging life through biotechnology are already being contemplated. Canada's leading science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer , offers his insights in a lecture entitled Humanity 2.0, produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada." Read on

"Der Arthouse-Horrorfilmregisseur Jörg Buttgereit und der Filmwissenschaftler Marcus Stiglegger stellen die lebenden Toten als zeitgenössisch politische, soziale oder satirische Metapher vor." Den Beitrag kann man leider nicht einbeeten, dafür hier anschauen: www.untot.info Dazu passend auch www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes. de

WNYC: "He joins John Schaefer for this New Sounds to talk about his writing process for some of his well-known film scores, his plan to turn around the carbon footprint that he will make on tour by his founding the organization More Trees, and they open the Pandora's box by questioning when noise becomes music." Read on

Von Barbara Eisenmann und Frieder Butzmann "Das Interessanteste, was Menschen herstellen könnten, ist die Menschheit." In der Streitschrift "Maschinenwinter" des Journalisten und Schriftstellers Dietmar Dath stellen die Menschen fest, dass Maschinen keine Früchte hervorbringen; sie sind unfruchtbar wie Pflanzen im Winter. Der Fortschritt ist keiner mehr, weil die Menschen zu Sklaven der Maschinen geworden sind. Doch nicht die Technik ist das Problem, es sind die Besitzverhältnisse im Kapitalismus. In Daths Gepäck für eine sozialistische Zukunft finden sich Darwin und Lenin genauso wie bürgerliche Revolutionäre des 18. Jahrhunderts oder marxistische Computerwissenschaftler der Gegenwart." - Stream [...]

"Delivering a mixtape as engimatic as his own artist persona, Magazine's Crato is deeply involved in Kompakt's individual take on experimental electronic music that came to be known as Pop Ambient. New compilation "Pop Ambient 2012" is out on 30th of January 2012, featuring Kompakt's Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger of The Modernist fame as Ambient supergroup Mohn, The Field's Axel Willner under the guise of side project Loops Of Your Heart, Superpitcher, Magazine - the band, bvdub and many more."

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musikexpress.de: "Disney hat beschlossen, das Micky-Maus-Shirt mit dem abgewandelten Joy-Division-Motiv aus dem Handel zu ziehen. Zuvor hatte sich Ex-Joy-Division-Mitglied Peter Hook zynisch dazu geäussert." Weiter Selbstverständlich wird das T-Shirt mittlerweile als Collectors Item www.ebay.com gehandelt. Das original wird schon für über 200 EUR gehandelt.

"Mohn is the new project of Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger to be release early 2012 on Kompakt." Read on at www.kompakt.fm

Die dreizehnte Ausgabe des CTM- Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts widmet sich der gegenwärtigen Konjunktur des Geisterhaften, Mysteriösen und Dunklen in experimenteller Musik, Avant-Pop und Kunst - und fragt nach ihren Ursachen und Potentialen. An den Rändern der Popkultur findet gegenwärtig eine Umkehrung statt: Drag, Witch House, Hypnagogic Pop, Hauntology, analoge Synthesizermusik, Neo-Industrial oder Drone Musik setzen auf eine Energie der Negativität und der Bewusstlosigkeit. Quer durch die Stile spürt man den musikalischen und medialen Heimsuchungen durch vergangene ästhetische Entwürfe samt ihren uneingelösten Utopien und Dystopien nach, beschwört die unheimlichen Anwesenheiten, [...]

- nurse with wound & graham bowers - rupture - oren ambarchi - audience of one - demdike stare - elemental part 3

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