Beginning to write spontaneously a novel of 50000 words yesterday without any preparations before, the first day was marked by associations, dreams, descriptions of states of nature and mind, just letting my thoughts going in a flow, day 2 brought me a sort of a plot, a story began to develop nearly out of itself, … Continue reading NaNoWriMo: Day 2 – a plot emerges
NaMoWriMo: 30 days and nights of literary abandon!
THE NEW ADDICTION: National Novel Writing Month November 1st-30th - 30 days and nights Writing in 30 days 50.000 words - an international challenge taking place every year in november. I got to know about it only on October 31st, so just in time to sign up and to start the next day. My first … Continue reading NaMoWriMo: 30 days and nights of literary abandon!
Many happy returns, Jürgen Habermas!
Jürgen Habermas celebrates his 80. birthday! He is one of the most important german heads of our days focused on linguistic philosophy, communication and pragmatics. He has crucially influenced the European society since 1968 until today. watch a rare video footage of Jürgen Habermas discussing some of his theories read more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jürgen_Habermas http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-17-newsitem-en.html
Ulysses: Kidney for Breakfast
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine. Kidneys were in his … Continue reading Ulysses: Kidney for Breakfast
BLOOMSDAY – an Odyssey
HI!!! Salut 🙂 mes ami(e) sur / to my friends @ yahoo profiles I'm back after a very long time of absence. After an Odyssey through virtual spaces? 😉 Being back and meeting some of my Y!360 friends again feels really really good 🙂 Also because - as I've already done on my 360 … Continue reading BLOOMSDAY – an Odyssey
100 years Claude Lévi Strauss! Bon Anniversaire! Happy Birthday!
Born on 28 November 1908 Claude Lévi Strauss is THE French anthropologist 😉 Lévi Strauss sought to apply the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure to anthropology and argued that, akin to Saussure’s notion of linguistic value, families only acquire determinate identities through relations with one another. Thus he inverted the classical view of anthropology, … Continue reading 100 years Claude Lévi Strauss! Bon Anniversaire! Happy Birthday!
Working in Vienna
Hi folks I'm blogging again 🙂 After some disturbing experiences on blogspot I'll probably continue to blog here on wordpress, just my usual texts; thus at the moment no new experiments concerning interferences between virtuality and reality. My blogspot-site might be re-opened soon, but if so, only as mirror to this site. c u
Helix und Kairos
Höllersche Zeitspiralen zum richtigen Zeitpunkt Höllers Spiralen sind kreiselnde Sonnen, der Kreisel als Stabilisator des Raum-Zeit-Gefüges. Die Künstlerin arbeitet organisch, die Konzeption ist ganz Denken und die Spiraldreherin ist ganz Materie: ein gelungenes Zusammenspiel von Herz und Hirn. Höller ist Mathematikerin. Ihre Werke sind genau durchdacht, Mengen, Linien und Abstände werden berechnet, bevor die … Continue reading Helix und Kairos
Back home in Vienna
So, my daughter and I back home in Vienna after 6 1/2 weeks travelling through North-America and 3 weeks relaxing in Klagenfurt, my hometown, in Carinthia, a southern state of Austria. Though back in Vienna a great change is going to happen next week: My son - nearly 20 years old - will be moving … Continue reading Back home in Vienna
North-America
Yes, we have been there - in North-America 😉 New York - Champaign, IL - Chicago - Milwaukee - Billings - Seattle - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Venice Beach - Newport - Phoenix - Albuquerque :)))) - Santa Fe - Denver - Chicago - Mount Pleasant, MI - Sleeping Bear dunes, MI - … Continue reading North-America
Going West: Greyhound, Albuquerque and other idées fixes ;)
Lots of people asked me why I planned to take just the greyhound bus for touring through North America and advised me to consider the Amtrak train instead. The Amtrak were more comfortable and faster and moreover travelling by greyhound were just foolish, unusual and a real torture. So let me explain a bit about … Continue reading Going West: Greyhound, Albuquerque and other idées fixes 😉
Alban Berg Quartett – Farewell concert in Vienna
Yesterday the ingenious Alban Berg Quartett gave it's last concert in Vienna at the Konzerthaus; the Ensemble, founded in Vienna in 1971, has been one of the most amazing string quartets in the world and many contemporary composeres dedicated them special works: so e.g. Berio, Lutoslawski, Schnittke, Urbanner and Rihm read more about the ABQ … Continue reading Alban Berg Quartett – Farewell concert in Vienna
Dag’s Nightly Visit – Video
My new camcorder: a canon HF 100! Just great, see it's first video 😉
Saturday relaxing at a wine tavern
Weekend afternoons and evenings lot's of Viennese people use to spend at a typical new wine tavern in the outskirts of Vienna, midst of vineyards and in full nature. We are lucky to live in such an area and so we meet quite often with friends at such a "Heurigen" as we call those taverns … Continue reading Saturday relaxing at a wine tavern
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Dagmar Travner 