February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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People in the streets. pt.2!
More than a year ago, on December 16th, I posted the following lines to my tumblr blog dealing with the protests and rediscovering the streets as a medium of making a statement:
people in the streets…
Now, as the year is coming to an end, the question I raised back then has to be answered with a clear YES! TIME Magazine’s Person of the year is The Protester. Thus, 2011 is going to be...
2012.
January: - Klagenfurt, life in a lifeless city. - Preparation for the month to come.
February: - Budapest - London - Berlin - Roberto Blanco sat one row in front of me while flying back to Klagenfurt
March: - hating Winter in Austria - Madrid until June
April: - Gran Canaria, maybe the best holiday ever: round trip around the island, sleeping on beaches, sleeping in the mountains, waking up...
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Thoughts on the Occupy! Movement.
The following thoughts came to my mind after reading the tumblr post on the Occupy! movement of my friend Jürgen (which can be read here:http://weareallguilty.tumblr.com/post/13782332996/think-twice-before-occupy ).
I can understand Jürgens train of thought. Nevertheless, there are so many more factors and point, which have to be added to this when speaking about Occupy! and other social...
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Homelessness = Crime in Hungary.
It’s no secret anymore that there are some things going wrong in Hungary recently. Now, from 1st of December homelessness is crime fined with tremendous amounts of money or prison if people cannot pay. If you sign the petition on the following link or not… please take a few minutes to read the following to see what’s going on there.
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November 2011
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Back from Budapest....
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Ikea and the city.
Since I use this space less and less as not so much extraordinary things are happening in my life right now, I’m thinking of using it more related to urban topics than to post what’s going on in my life currently. Maybe it’s gonna be a mix of both.. let’s see.
As I read newspaper articles on how Ikea is going to built a mini city in East London, next to the Olympic Park it...
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empty buildings but they keep on building...
since mid-October a huge building in Lindengasse in Vienna’s seventh district was squatted and named Epizentrum. Today the house was cleared by the police. I read about it on twitter, swung myself on the bike and went there. the owner of the buildings (BUWOG) is going to tear it down and to build new residential dwellings which are probably going to sell for a fortune since prices are rising...
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1. still no job.
2. still busy.
2.1 have been to Budapest for the CULBURB Workshop on how to make suburbs more lively with art interventions.
2.2 going back to Budapest the weekend around November 18th for a conference and book presentation on urban sprawl and gentrification.
2.3 about to found an association called ‘Einschleichende Neubauten’ with collegues from 4cities.
2.4 got...
October 2011
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October, 2011.
Now, suddenly, after weeks and weeks without an entry, I feel like writing something for this space here again. In the meantime a lot happened: I graduated in Urban Studies and can call myself Master of Arts now. I moved to Vienna and share the most beautiful flat with beloved Lisely.. Except for the construction which is going on the top floor and wakes you up at 7.30 almost every day, the...
September 2011
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It’s mid-September of 2011. In one week I’m going to have my thesis defence in Brussels. Its gonna be the end of 2 wonderful years of endless train and busrides, delayed flights and adventures on every corner. As i’m working on this last presentation right now while listening to some old records it makes me kinda sentimental although I know it’s the right time to end this...
August 2011
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Writing the abstract = an end is in sight.
Abstract: Competitiveness VS. Social Balance: Governmental Strategies fostering Gentrification in Cases in Budapest and Vienna (preliminary title).
The craving of cities for investment, capital and persisting in a global competition is what provoked Neil Smith (2002) to argue that gentrification has found its way into urban policies in the 21st century. Today, governmental strategies fostering...
social balance vs. competitiveness: governmentally...
6 more days until the deadline for sending around a file i currently save as ThesisFINAL.docx and i can’t wait to be done with it. luckily i’m not super stressed out by finishing it. it’s more or less done but i have to put the whole thing under one umbrella for writing an appropriate conclusion and finding a fitting title. the thing in the title here is the name of the thing at...
therapy session.
I’ve got converge and i’ve got my running shoes.
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July 2011
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VIE-update.
it seems like this space here has become more and more obsolete since i’m back in austria. the actual reason for starting this was to let people know what’s going on in my life… but since i’m in more or less regular contact with most of the people i care about it’s not really neccessary to have a space to communicate about what’s going on recently. so there...
so looking forward to holidays in august or september and the travels to italy, croatia, greece, wherever. soo needing a break from writing right now.
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Summer & Roadtrips.
Camera: Vivitar IC101
Film: Lomo. ASA400.
Spots: Ljubljana, Izola/Slo, Umag/Cro
moving out..
so it’s july and it’s time to pack the suitcase again and leave for Vienna tomorrow. actually i’m a bit stressed right now but updating tumblr seems to be more fun than thinking about what to bring, how to bring my bike and how everything is going to work out. I plan on staying in Vienna until the beginning of august and although i’m kinda looking forward to live in there...
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June 2011
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Lomolito. Madrid.
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MAD_VIE_KLU
Some shots from my trip from Madrid to Vienna to Klagenfurt some 3 weeks ago. I took the pictures with a vivitar ic101. unfortunately a lot of the pics got too dark.i love shooting film again…
btw: this place needs a serious update…
“Die Gewalt ist der Geburtshelfer jeder alten Gesellschaft, die mit einer neuen...”
– Karl Marx (1890): Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Bd. 1: Der Produktionsprozeß des Kapitals, Hg.: Friedrich Engels, 4. Auflage, Berlin, Karl Dietz Verlag: S. 779 (via verblendungszusammenhang)
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of cucumbers and tomatos...
are you still eating these veggies? I do… although it seems like everyone around is panic-stricken by the idea that one could somehow get infected by the EHEC germ. Again, media is blowing the whole thing up and reports of different sources for the disease every day before concrete tests are available. The fact that the cause is still not found just motivates to play CSI Tomato (or however...
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coming home after a being away for some weeks and finding a stack of record boxes is still cool although the piles got smaller and smaller over the years….
Deafheaven - Roads to Judah LP // Deathwish Inc. /300
Cave In - Antenna 2xLP // Hydrahead
Don’t ask me why it took 8 years until putting this one onto the shelf.
Yuck - Yuck LP // Fat Possum Records.
Best Indie Record of...
May 2011
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Wooooohoooooooooooo!
i just had the last presentation in my master studies and it was also the last day at university (ever?). Expect some serious partying tonight. going to Vienna tomorrow night and to Klagenfurt Thursday morning. gonna put together a longer post on the last days here in madrid once i’m not in a hurry…
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Watchmeanwhile in spain….
It's Thursday, 26th of May.
and i have to hand in a structure for my thesis before noon and finish a presentation for this afternoon but i rather update my tumblr because that’s what brings you the joy, isn’t it? anyhow. busy days here in Madrid and i’m melting in my small room. temperatures > 30° and no wind. tomorrow is judgement day. keep your fingers crossed for me.
It’s T-6 until i leave...
i can't wait...
… going back home to Austria and start summer season!!!!
when the phase is about to end, it’s the past that comes chasing back into the present.
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these are times of changes.
if i have learned one personal thing from 2 years of almost constant travelling then it’s to listen to my inner-self. and my inner-self seems to be highly active in the last time. if citing lyrics wouldn’t be one of the lamest things on the internet (*blush*) i would now say, life’s a constant work in progress (SYG, 2006). but so it is. it’s not just that my studies are...
things i'm looking forward NOT to have...
- instant coffee
- the tiniest room on the ibereian peninsula
- hay fever
- writing useless reports
- a fridge in 10m walking distance to the kitchen
TBC.
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T - 29, or something like that
it’s been a while since the last post including any text. more than half of the madrid stay is over and it’s already time to count down the days until it’s depature day, again…. (un)fortunately. when i think of that there are just 1 1/2 weeks of lectures at university left i get a wired feeling… these are probably my last days of a 20 year lasting educational period…....
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April 2011
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Some more from Lisbon...
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