A word on one of the most beautiful book I've ever read. And it's not even about food. It's called The Pillow Book. It is written by Sei Shōnagon (966-1025), a Japanese female writer and court lady. Her musings on love, art and beauty have been the inspiration for this blog. A pillow book is [...]
Find my new open acces article on fashion and technology in the latest issue of Popular Inquiry. Fashion and Technology My working hypothesis is that the fields of fashion and wearables are most advanced when it comes to developing devices that are integrated in everyday objects. Designers are pioneers with regard to ubiquitous computing and [...]
Find my new article in this highly interesting volume with contributions by Andreas Sudmann, Hito Steyerl, Lev Manovich and many more.
The Sushi Bar Tatsumi in Konstanz literally saved my life. I arrived in a dark winter night in the small beautiful town Constance. It is tugged away between the Lake Constance and Switzerland. In the German geography it resembles an appendix, because it is the far southwest end of the country. But it has the [...]
Fresh from the press: Find my paper on Embodiment and Disembodiment in Contemporary Cinema in the Yearbook of Eastern and Western Philosophy, ed. by Hans Feger a.o., published with de Gruyter! Abstract: The Metaphor of the Net. Embodiment and Disembodiment in Contemporary Cinema In this paper present an overview on how we currently [...]
There are funny things you can find at the beach. In my case it was green caviar, a type of algae also known as sea grapes. It happened on a tiny island called Guam right next to the Philippine island of Siargao. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found a green algae sphere large [...]
