A country vanishes – “Beyond the Wall”
Countries that have ceased to exist hold a certain fascination. Especially when this has happened to …
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Describing the indescribable – “Moonage Daydream”
The iconic musician David Bowie (1947–2016) was a true original. But ironically difficult to describe without …
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Are We Not Men? – 50 Years of DEVO
In the early 80s, I stumbled upon a peculiar album cover in a record store in…
When the eosophobia hits – Jack White: “Fear of the Dawn”
Jack White’s creativity is so vibrant and untamed that there’s a new surprise waiting for the…
How to radicalize yourself – “Der Baader Meinhof Komplex”
At its release in 1985, this was praised as the ultimate biography of the infamous German…
Frankenstein on the shoulders of Gilgamesh – Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens”
In the academic discipline of “Big History,” historians and thinkers attempt to draw the grand lines …
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We biological machines – Robert Sapolsky: “Behave”
Biologist and neurologist Robert Sapolsky’s project is astoundingly ambitious: He wants to try to map out…
Erratically civilized – Will Self: “Great Apes”
Will Self’s novel “Great Apes” is both deeply unsettling and darkly hilarious – an uncomfortably precise…
“All the deer has to do is blink” – David Thomas and P.O. Jørgens at Jazzhouse
There are two kinds of extraordinary musical experiences: One is hearing something unlike anything you’ve ever…
The bravery of the coward – “The Noise of Time”
Night after night, a man stands by his elevator with a suitcase, waiting for the secret…