Google fails you for the first time since it’s inception, when you realize that search box enables you to enter only 2048 characters When you type the word “alone” over and over, the 2048th character is an o. Words are useless anyway. Your body is a hydration machine — even if you cry for an hour straight, you will still have tears left. You are now more likely than ever to see your neighbors across the street having sex. Your cat, from an ignorant asshole turns in to a really good listener. Giving couples dirty looks makes you feel whole lot better. Porn and erotic content looks like an aircraft emergency landing procedure Clock after midnight runs 3 times faster to compensate equal delay during the day. Best foods turn in to tasteless poison. Body does surprisingly well running just on Alcohol, coffee and cigaretes You suck at work. If your boss complements you on some good job you did week before, he’s not making a statement about how great you are and how stupid... Read the full story » 28th of September in my calendar is marked by humble anniversary of departure to Irishland. Another yearly cycle came to close, since getting out from midnight flight from Brussels 9 years ago… Where did the time go? – there’s no way to avoid that question… And as much I wouldn’t like it to be – it is indeed, only rhetorical cliche type of dilemma… Few years ago, charm of that day ultimately got ruined by acknowledgement of the fact, that my life here does not flow on just one simple timeline. I’m aware that it may not be just the case of “my” life “here”, but that’s the only life I know. I used to refer to all my “adventures” as to “chapters”. But lately it’s more difficult to distinguish individual ones. From so called at the time “novel”, my life turned in to booklet of aggregated random short stories, or poems… Maybe my current aims, commitments and priorities, shaped... Read the full story »

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  Michel Foucault. Of Other Spaces (1967), Heterotopias. This text, entitled “Des Espace Autres,” and published by the French journal Architecture /Mouvement/ Continuité in October, 1984, was the basis of a lecture given by Michel Foucault in March 1967. Although not reviewed for publication by the author and thus not part of the official corpus of his work, the manuscript was released into the public domain for an exhibition in Berlin shortly before Michel Foucault’s death. Translated from the French by Jay Miskowiec. The great obsession of the nineteenth century was, as we know, history: with its themes of development and of suspension, of crisis, and cycle, themes of the ever-accumulating past, with its great preponderance of dead men and the menacing glaciation of the world. The nineteenth century found its essential mythological resources in the second principle of thermaldynamics- The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity: we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed. We are at a moment. I believe, when our experience of... Read the full story »