The Terror of Reality is a term, that was developed by a group of artists in Turkey calling thenselves “Periferi”. Periferi feels a closeness to the Situationists International, a leftist avantgard art movement of the 1960th. Environment, urbanism, social rsistance and the active fight against a capitalist “psychogram” of society were some of their main […]
Yassin al-Haj Saleh (born in Ar-Raqqah in 1961) is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.
Library of Babel 2- “Successive Totems and other Stories” Rafet Arslan is questioning the relationship between a Totem as an item of eternity and icons, that got pseudo Totems of our daily life and consumerism. The Chanel-bottle, Car-brands and genderbased icons got Totems of a lifestyle, that is falsly confused with an eternity it […]
Library of Babel 1 – “Ziggurat Tamer” The reference of the “Library of Babel” evokes a couple of associations. The famous short story of Jorge Luis Borges’ (1941) describes the architecture of a universe-size Library. The discussion following the text scrolled around the infinity of knowledge regarding endless possibilities of combining knowledge and […]