It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"He [Odysseus] found the Phaiakian lords and rulers pouring libations from their cups to the keen-sighted Radiant One (Argeiphontes) [#Hermes] to whom by custom they poured libation last when they turned their thoughts to the night's rest."
Homer, #Odyssey 7.137
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
@bookstodon And on the @fictionable#podcast Jenny Erpenbeck talks about why writers are so suspicious of documents, the trouble with endings and the problem of arbitrary borders.
i just read that apparently berlin is getting its very own and first philosophy festival, where you can see panel discussion of big philosophers like peter sloterdijk and axel honneth...
the festivals theme is "freedom"
very interesting indeed, but unfortunately with a rather weird (and not wise) pricing model... 🤔
"'We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars" by Philip Oltermann (#TheGuardian)
"Silently towering into the grey Berlin sky, the latest addition to the German capital’s skyline is easily missed by passengers passing along the Unter den Linden boulevard below. Eight statues of Old Testament prophets, each more than 3 metres tall and weighing 3 tonnes, were installed last week in a circular formation around the cupola of the palace in the centre of the metropolis."
“It appears that we are dealing with a targeted infiltration of the Berlin palace by fundamentalist rightwingers who want to turn it into symbol of a Christian and thereby ‘white’ ethnic Germany,” said Jürgen Zimmerer."
📣 New post on our blog with a special insight into the ontology created to better understand the environment surrounding the #Greek#manuscripts belonging to Guillaume Pellicier now kept in #Berlin ! Here the direct link: pellicierhy.hypotheses.org/402 @stabi_berlin@bookstodon
Heute vor 25 Jahren wurde das - seinerzeit noch leere - neue Gebäude für das Jüdische #Museum#Berlin eröffnet.
Was darin seit August 2020 in der aktuellen #Dauerausstellung zu sehen ist, hat François Guesnet für unsere #Expokritik besprochen:
Amazon US are doing a Black Friday deal on The Sandman book 1. 560 pages down from $29.99 to $13.40. Obviously I'd prefer that you bought it from an independent book or comic shop. And obviously I know some of you are on a budget where this could make a difference.
… und der Zukunft zugewandt? – Über jüdische Geschichte(n) in der DDR
Organisiert vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien Potsdam (#MMZ) und vom Jüdischen Museum Berlin (#JMB), #Potsdam/#Berlin, 18.-20. Oktober 2023
Am #Welttierschutztag ein Hinweis auf #WerkstattGeschichte 56/2011 "#tiere", hg. v. @DocRoscher & André Krebber; Beiträge v. Bernhard Gißibl über Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen im kolonialen Ostafrika, Brett Mizelle zu "Grizzly" Adams und die Genese des Bildes vom Grizzly Bären im 19. Jh. sowie v. Anna-Katharina Wöbse & M. Roscher zu #Zoo-Tieren in #Berlin & #London im #2WW