忘了，忘，会忘的，将会忘
winnie and pillar and and and
“can intimacy exist in public?”
Secret communities tested in aleatory fashion, Acconci’s limitations are practical, too. Beginning at the site of the Bundesnachrichtendienst and arriving at the Auswaertiges Amt:
The subject was chosen walking past the site of the German Secret Service building (to be finished in 2012). A plywood construction blockade, there is hardly any graffiti here. One stencil of a walking man whose head is a surveillance camera.
[14:06] The subject has been spotted on Chausseestrasse walking south at a medium pace and smoking a cigarette with his right hand.
Getting on the U-bahn, Schwarzkopfstrasse.
Stadtmitte, getting off.
Walking south on Friedrichstrasse, turning left on Krausenstrasse.
[14:16] Subject is noted to always look both ways before crossing the street.
Taking a left and turning into park.
[14:21] Subject missing.
[14:22] Subject 1 has most likely entered building number 40 at Leipzigerstrasse, and subject 2 is picked up at the point of departure, exiting from the building wearing high-heeled boots, blonde hair, carrying a black shopping bag in her right hand. She suddenly turns and walks the other direction. [14:26] Subject number 2 enters a jade coloured BMW 725i. We return to the point of departure of Subject 1. 40 Leipzigerstrasse. [14:28] Subject number 3 exits 40 Leipzigerstrasse. She walks east, wearing a multi-coloured scarf and black hat. Walking at leisurely pace, adjusting her hat.
[14:37] After playing Lotto, subject walks into the adjacent super market.
Blumenkohl, broccoli, kiwi.
[14:50] Subject 3 investigation is terminated in supermarket. Subject 4 recognised at 14:49 walking out of the market, carrying a large bottle of Pepsi.
[14:51] Walked inside Multipolster furniture store a few doors down. Appears to be working there.
[14:53] Subject 5 spotted walking west on Leipzigerstrasse. Subject 3 rediscovered walking west on Leipzigerstrasse. She is carrying groceries in a black nylon bag. Subject 3 investigation re-terminated.
Leipzigerstrasse 43. Subject 6 is spotted buying a small potted plant from the Blumen & Pflanzen shoppe. He wears a beige trenchcoat and red scarf, carrying a white and blue shopping bag and newly purchased flowers. [14:59] Subject meets a couple at the intersection of Leipzigerstrasse and Markgrafenstrasse. They all hold shopping bags and chat for a moment before trying to enter a restaurant door, finding it locked. The go to the next eingang and enter City Hotel.
[15:15] Subject 6 exits hotel accompanied by the same man and woman. He is no longer carrying the flowers and shopping bag. They walk north on Markgrafenstrasse. [15:23] Subject 6, accompanied by the couple, walks into the Auswaertiges Amt (Federal Foreign Office). He is seen removing his trenchcoat before security check. Subject 6 investigation terminated.
After some days, she didn’t feel the need to continue in the same way again, I mean, what is participation anyway, if it’s the same as tearing the sheet, sticking around to feed the birds or clicking——wordlessly——”add friend”. How engaged does one need to be to find intimacy, and what is participation in a group in which nobody notices? Taking part, you took part, again again… but what of inaction in the kinesphere, an allowance of space in regards to an other, not taking the responsibility. What can simply be, we were the worst at imagining a telos, so it just goes here to there nor there, our passivity is incremental. but why keep thinking of community and collectivity with such utopian ideals, anyhow. he asks, “can you imagine any form of positively created collectivity”? I thought of all my ill feeling; now, like a nearing in language or love, linking forward or a re-action may not require positives or negatives…
Posted by 丫 | more »a picture emerges
serres & latour, conversations on science, culture and time
Posted by toby | reply »lovegang
small exercise, trying out the omni mics attached on a hanger, per chris watson‘s advice (thank you, chris!)
a few hundred meters, so many words, getting all the accents wrong, a mapping of sorts..
Posted by f | reply »11:36:38 | 没有，飞机要进入雷区了，我要关机了，等会再和你们聊。 No. The airplane is about to enter a thunder zone. I have to turn the machine off. I’ll chat with you again later.
5月13日地震抢救现场上午直播群里的一个记者在地震抢救现场给我们上午做的直播 QQ instant messenger relay from netizen 绮梦, meaning Pleasant Dream, in the accompaniment of the entourage of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the morning of May 13:
10:07:29 | 现场简直不能看了 The scene is unbearable to watch
10:08:33 | 年过花甲的总理已经哭得不成样子了 The grey-haired premier is crying his eyes out
10:10:16 | 刚刚挖开的地方又塌方了 The location that was just excavated has just collapsed once more
10:11:24 | 这倒霉天气还在下雨，现在一线的军人已经被下达死命令，必须冒雨解救 It is still raining in this rotten weather. The frontline soldiers have been given a must-do order to make the rescue in the rain
10:11:30 | 我就在现场 I am at the scene
10:11:56 | 我现在是在都江堰市 I am presently in Dujiangyan city
10:13:24 | 交通已经瘫痪了，人员和物资很难运进去 Traffic has been paralyzed so that it is hard to get personnel and material in
10:13:47 | 汶川现在还不让我们去 Wenchuan won’t let us go there right now
10:15:21 | 汶川的交通完全封闭了，现场到底怎么样我不知道，不过早上总理指示军队不管有多大代价，必须进城 All traffic to Wenchuan has been stopped. I don’t know what it is like out there. But the Premier gave an directive to the army to enter the city at any price
10:16:03 | 倒霉天气在下雨，飞机几次都不能降落，伞兵马上就要起飞了 It is still raining in this rotten weather. The airplanes are unable to land after several failed attempts. The paratroopers are about to take off
10:17:36 | 飞机在汶川空投物资了 The airplanes are dropping material into Wenchuan
10:20:06 | 被压在废墟下的300多学生现在很危险啊，刚才一次的营救又失败了，现在总理在现场组织再次营救。 The more than 300 students trapped underneath the rubble are in great danger. The last rescue attempt failed again. The Premier is organizing another rescue right now
10:20:47 | 啊 总理摔到了， The Premier just tripped and fell down
10:21:35 | 照片我正在传给北京，不经过审核的是不允许发布的 I am transmitting the photo to Beijing. But it can’t be distributed until it has been approved
10:22:21 | 我和几个同行现在开了9台电脑，同时在传消息 I and several colleaglues are running nine computers to send information out
10:22:37 | 这个QQ在关键时候传的真慢 This QQ thing is really slow in the most critical moments
10:23:39 | 突击队又上了 The special forces have moved in again
10:25:04 | 如果你现在看见老爷子的样子，你马上就会哭的 If you can see Grandpa Wen now, you would cry immediately
10:26:40 | 老爷子的手臂受伤出血了，他把要给他包扎的医务人员推开了 Grandpa’s arm is bleeding. He just shoved aside the medical aide who wants to give him bandage
10:27:09 | 好消息，发现一名学生了 Good news, a student has been found
10:28:00 | 总理跑到塌方点了，在帮忙呢 The Premier has gone over to the collapse point to help
10:28:13 | 向峨乡中学 Xiangexiang Middle School
10:28:33 | 拖出来了，医生在抢救 The student has been pulled out and the doctors are providing treatment
10:28:56 | 部队上来的人还不是很多 Not a lot of army soldiers have arrived
10:29:07 | 交通太困难 Transportation is too hard
10:29:42 | 现在还不一定，这个看样子看活着，吊瓶氧气都挂上了 It is still uncertain but this one appears to be alive. They are using IV drips and oxygen
10:31:06 | 啊，又塌了 Oh, another collapse
10:31:28 | 突击队一个人被埋进去了 A member of the special forces has been buried
10:32:40 | 等等，我到前面看看 Wait, let me move up and take a look
10:36:24 | 我回来了，抢救出来了 I am back. He has been rescued.
10:37:16 | 最新消息，彭州被困的10万群众危险！！！ Latest news: the 100,000 trapped in Pengzhou are in danger!!!
10:38:49 | 由于大雨的影响，工程兵几次架桥失败，附近已经出现泥石流迹象，电话直接是叫通总理的，情况很危险！！！ Due to the heavy rains, the engineers have failed several times to erect a new bridge. There are signs of mudslides in the surrounding area. The telephone call was put through directly to the Premier. The situation is very dangerous!!!
10:39:19 | 由于桥梁倒塌，彭州市10万群众被堵在山中，救灾人员和物资无法运入。已经出现泥石流迹象 Due to a collapsed bridge, the 100,000 people of Pengzhou are trapped up in the mountain. The rescue personnel and material cannot enter. There are signs of mudslides.
10:41:11 | 总理电话里大喊，我不管你们怎么样，我只要这10万群众脱险，这是命令。他把电话摔了 The Premier is screaming into the telephone: “I don’t care what you have to do. I want those 100,000 people out of danger. That is an order.” Then he slammed the phone down
10:41:33 | 头一次看见老爷子这么厉害 This is the first time that I have seen the old man react so strongly
10:41:54 | 汶川现在还没通知去，估计情况不是很好 Wenchuan has not notified us to go there yet. The situation is probably not very good
10:42:16 | 我现在在通讯帐篷里 I am in the communications tent
10:43:54 | 汶川最新消息，雨开始小了，空投物资已经扔下去了，空降兵已经在外围机场登机了 The latest news from Wenchuan is that the rain has lessened and the material are being air-dropped. The paratroopers are boarding the planes at the outlying airport
10:45:19 | 现在所有的国外记者都在关注号称中国最精锐的特种部队首次公开亮相 All the overseas reporters are paying attention to the first public appearance of China’s best elite troops
10:46:50 | 总理现在和登机部队领导说话 The Premier said, “I have only one thing to say. The people have been feeding you, so you see what you can do.”
11:11:00 | 总理说，我就一句话，是人民在养你们，你们自己看着办。 Hi, I am right now in a military helicopter. I am nervous because this is the first time that I have been in such an airplane
11:12:51 | 我现在在直升机上，估计一个小时后就到什肪了 I am in the helicopter. I estimate that I will arrive at Shitang in one hour’s time
11:34:40 | 最新消息，汶川的映秀、漩口、卧龙三镇通讯信号很弱，至今也无法联系。估计三镇有将近两万多人被困，余震不断，大雨连绵，情况非常严峻，由于能见度太差，无法判断准确情况。总参命令，当空降部队到达汶川上空时，如果条件不允许，就不惜代价强行伞降！ Latest news, the signals from Yingxiu, Xuankou and Wolong towns are very weak, and no communication has been made so far. It is estimated that almost 20,000 people are trapped in those three towns. The aftershocks are continuing. The situation is very grim. Since visibility is too poor, it is difficult to assess the situation. The Command Headquarters has issued the order to the paratroopers that even if the conditions do not permit, they will parachute down no matter what the price is!
11:36:38 | 没有，飞机要进入雷区了，我要关机了，等会再和你们聊。 No. The airplane is about to enter a thunder zone. I have to turn the machine off. I’ll chat with you again later.
13:44:33 | 我来了，让各位着急了 Here I come. Sorry to leave you waiting
13:45:12 | 我现在是在什邡化工厂，这里的情况比预想的要好 I am at the Shitang Chemical Factory. The situation is better than anticipated
13:45:42 | 抢救工作正在顺利有序的展开 The rescue work is going on in an orderly fashion
13:46:49 | 汶川还没消息，空降部队已经快抵达了 No news from Wenchuan. The paratroopers are about to arrive
13:47:20 | 总理中午到德阳了，听说那里情况不是很好 The Premier arrived in Deyang at noon. I heard that the situation there is not very good
13:50:56 | 都江堰方面的最新消息，中午这两个小时，已经抢救出60多名孩子 The latest news from Dujiangyan. More than 60 children have been rescued during the two hours since noon
13:51:25 | 照片不经过审查是不允许随便发布的，这是纪律 Photos that have not been approved are not to be distributed. Those are the disciplinary rules
13:53:58 | 因为雨很大，泥石流和塌方事件越来越多，情况很糟糕 Due to the heavy rains, there are more and more incidents of mudslides and collapses. The situation is very bad
13:57:38 | 彭州的架桥部队进展顺利，有望在最短时间完工并救出被困的10万群众 The bridge engineer corps are doing well in Pengzhou. There is hope to rescue the trapped 100,000 people in the shortest time
13:59:41 | 成都军区特种侦察大队以徒步越野方式向汶川开进，希望能够成功并指引空降部队空投 The Chengdu Military District special scout corps is traversing the wilderness towards Wenchuan. It is hoped that they can succeed and direct the parachute drop.
[以上内容转载自钱烈宪博客，帖子的标题是“温受伤了”。据说是一位网名“绮梦”的新闻从业人员13号从现场发回的消息。我们无法证实其真实性，仅供大家参考。英文是为东南西北博客翻译的。The transcript above has been translated into English by Roland Soong of EastSouthNorthWest from the blog of Raymond Zhou, who reprinted the text from another blog posting titled “Wen injured”. Raymond titled his blog post “What moved me most”. Thank you to a for the initial relay.]
Posted by 丫 | more »the street without glove
today as i was cycling i passed over a small crumpled brown satin glove on the street, and, as i always do, thought of aka, about taking a photo of a glove on the street for her, as she always did, as she perhaps still does. but it’s a busy process, this taking of photos of lost gloves on streets, and at some point i stopped to do it anymore, because there are just so many lost gloves on streets around the world, and maybe they are quite even the most lost things in the world, beyond money and pets and love. f says that she always thinks of aka when she sees gloves, too. so we are consistently finding the lost things, and whether or not we take the picture, we keep losing and finding and losing again —- the thought. the money, the pets, the love.
and these thoughts happened within the space of about 50 meters, at which point i happened to ride right past the matching small brown satin glove, and though i didn’t stop, i slowed down a bit, thinking how this may be the first time in my life to see a whole pair lost, not quite together, but close. and maybe they weren’t lost, maybe the woman riding her bicycle could feel the spring as i do when i ride my bicycle these days, and she decided to fling her gloves away in joy. oh, the thought!
and so i couldn’t resist anymore, the chance to find and take a photo of a pair of lost brown satin gloves, so i slowed down more, turned around and started to go back to the place where i passed them. But just as i turned around, a man on a scooter slows down and swiftly picks up the small brown satin glove from the street and rides right past me.
so… the gloves and the money and the pets and the love.
sigh…
and a photograph for you.
Posted by 丫 | more »frequency of journey: daily (more or less), duration: 20min, means of transport: bicycle
out of the door, you turn right. the first store is the lawyer’s office, the danish couple (or maybe only he is danish) with the big white dog. they helped you when your car battery was flat last summer, but you haven’t seen them since september (did they move away?). next to them, the architects. you still can’t understand what that sign on the window means. they are there at all times, especially the guy with the glasses sitting at the end of the room, looking towards the window. you wonder if he ever sees you going by, more so when you go to the bakery in the early morning, wearing your coat over your pyjamas. you ride towards senefelderstrasse. multicolour fish made out of paper are still hanging on the trees since the kids made them during the neighborhood gathering in the summer. you arrive at the corner. on the right hand, the strange building that doesn’t look like a residential building but you swear you’ve seen someone behind that curtain. you wonder who lives here. on the left corner the new café. they’ve been working on it for so long and it just opened. you don’t like it at all. you turn left and ride all the way to danziger, past the greek grocery store, you wave to yorgos. you cross danziger and continue on kollwitzstrasse. this is your new route. till last month you used to take a right on danziger, but then she suggested that you try new routes, explore the area a bit more. they are still doing construction work and you turn right into sredzkistrasse. one café at each corner. he says he prefers the brunch at the northwest corner, but that’s only because of free coffee refill. you ride on sredzkistrasse, past the store that she is planning on buying (long-term plans..). you pass the kulturbrauerei on your right, cross schönhauser and then go right onto oderberger. the bar that you wanted to go and then you went, the night before she left. you turn left on kastanienallee. the constant fear of falling into the tram lines. horrible images passing in front of your eyes, every time. not so much looking around here, you have to be careful. you only notice that poster that looks a bit like him, as your father pointed out. you were embarrassed at the time, but now you think it actually does look like him, in a funny kind of way. then right on zionskirchstrasse. if it’s a thursday then the market will be there. veteranenstrasse, the fun part, riding down the hill, but you’re always a bit scared, keeping your hands on the brakes. you go past the park where you were planning to have that picnic. maybe you will in a few months, when the weather gets better again. you continue on invalidenstrasse. it’s your other neighborhood but you still feel like you haven’t explored it enough. you remember when you visited that may, before you moved here, the nordbahnhof seemed so different then and you had no idea that you would be returning to that same place only a few months later. past the nordbahnhof, the tricky part of crossing the road, you try a different approach each time depending on traffic. and then you cross. and then you are there. (click here to see more everyday routes and the points where they cross, overlap, run parallel or tangent to each other. and if you happen to be living in berlin, we’d love to read about your daily journey)
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