Tramba

OULOI POPSE STO DEMOTIKO KENTRON TEHNWN (PALIA LEFKWSIA).
Na pame ouloi mazi na tou tin piaoumen. Mia teleftaia politistiki praxi sta plaisia enos dysleitourgikou idrymatos pou mixoklaiei hwris antikrysma (xana) jai hwris ton elahisto sevasmo stis ergatowres tou kathe garou san emas.

20:00 Apo to A sto W: Archeiothetwntas tin synhroni kypriaki politistiki paragwgi (Pou ta skata sta kotsira diladi)
21:00 Tramba Audiovisual Conspiracy

Fitting.

Ep!

By hiphopcrecy. YO Re!!

The lamentation of the pyramids

Main Figure of classic radio joke dies (and it's not Pombos!)

Things you only learn at a Bar on King's Road (SW10) on the night of St. Andreas Day

The Magus of Strovolos

(aka, Christmas present request)

Post-Freudian Impressions: Redefining the relation between church, power and the 'mommy-daddy-me' triangle in Cyprus after 1974

The repetition of the phenomenon of setting the blame on the other, as an attitude fundamentally characterizing the postcolonial, finds itself here in a paradoxically mediated one-to-one correspondence with the as of yet undifferentiated manifold of state-church power that had been consolidated in the figure of Makarios. The dangers for the alliance between the familial and the political (with the proper name 'Makarios' signifying the approximation of a nom du pere) brought forth by the introduction [in the guise of import] of the technological advances produced by an enlightenment that has been absent in an almost exaggerated fashion, are to be gazed at through the medusa-like laser eyes of the other as non-lover, as the one who in the guise of an arranged marriage conceals/veils an immemorial threat. In this fusing of the politics of blame with the realm of the aesthetic, in its revolutionary simulation of the space of celebrations of national commemorations in educational institutions and simultaneously of the stage of the kindergarden birthday party or the wedding, 'En i mana mou pou fteei' with the self-referential twist of quasi-english-accented cypriot dialect [ambiguously camouflaging its alliances within the post-colonial context it has set itself] reflects a certain failure to cope, a certain resignation: it brings with it no recipe for the dismantling of the aforesaid triangle, nor any effort towards the demarcation of church from state. Rather, it revolutionizes the fact of its own inability to put forth anything ostensively referential that could go beyond the realm of influence of the church and its coextensive family relations. It thus transforms the act of singing into a repetition of the voice's own impotence.

O kattos mahrefkei (Weißwürste) tzi' o pontikos xorefkei (horah)

Il Manifesto - Communist Newspaper

Pervert Jarryism

Cycle Sexualism

And you thought you were patient..

ebooks

poson me eknevrizi aman mou lalei kapios oti pai na pethanei to vivlio? 'to internet enna fiei to vivlio opws to kseroumen' laloun.

e. toutos kalifki me pliros.

bye bye tube map?

Legible London Free Exhibit

Wed 28th November - Sat 1st December 200710 Heddon Street, London W1B 4BY Open 10am - 4pm daily

Come and learn more about the prototype and have your say…

This exhibit provides further information on the installation of the pedestrian wayfinding scheme in the BondStreet area of Westminster.

Come along to the exhibit and:

•Learn more about the theories behind wayfinding which have led to the Legible London project

•Understand why the West End and specifically Bond Street was chosen as the prototype area

•See a replica street sign used in the pilot area as part of the wayfinding system

•Give feedback on the scheme and wayfinding in LondonAll visitors to the venue will be able to pick up a free copy of the new publication ‘The Yellow Book’ which is a summary of the project so far and its importance to London.

There will also be the opportunity to view theprototype signs in the Bond Street area.

Graffiti - καθρέφτης λαϊκής σοφίας

Ρατσισμός: ο πολιτισμός των ηλιθίων

Τα γκράφιτι είναι -συχνά- καθρέφτης λαϊκής σοφίας. Σε ένα τέτοιο γκράφιτι περιγράφεται εύστοχα ένα αλγεινό φαινόμενο που τώρα αγγίζει επικίνδυνα και την Κύπρο: "Ρατσισμός: ο πολιτισμός των ηλιθίων". Μέχρι τώρα το φαινόμενο δεν είχε επισήμως μια στέγη στην Κύπρο. Φαίνεται όμως ότι πάει να αποκτήσει. Και φαίνεται από το έντυπο της "Κίνησης για τη Σωτηρία της Κύπρου" διά του οποίου εξαγγέλλεται πραγματοποίηση σχετικής ημερίδας την Κυριακή. Στο έντυπο, μεταξύ άλλων, επισημαίνεται ότι "οι Ασιάτες και Αφρικανοί μετανάστες, λαθρομετανάστες, αιτητές πολιτικού ασύλου και παράνομοι εργάτες, δήθεν φοιτητές είναι 160 χιλιάδες περίπου" και προστίθεται πως "αν δεν αυτοπροστατευθούμε, τα προσεχή 10 χρόνια θα έχουμε άλλους 70 χιλιάδες τουλάχιστον παράνομους". Και μόνο τα περί "αυτοπροστασίας" είναι αρκετά για έναν εχέφρονα άνθρωπο που έχει τα μάτια του ανοικτά ώστε να διακρίνει το κεφάλι του φιδιού. Ωστόσο, εκείνο που κάνει τα πράγματα ανησυχητικά είναι οι παρουσίες στην "Ημερίδα". Πρόεδρος της Κίνησης είναι ο πρώην βουλευτής του ΔΗΚΟ Πέτρος Στυλιανού, χαιρετισμό θα απευθύνει ο Βάσος Λυσσαρίδης, ενώ εκτός των άλλων ομιλητής θα είναι ο υπουργός Δικαιοσύνης Σοφοκλής Σοφοκλέους! Αν λοιπόν θυμηθούμε ότι πριν από 43 μόνο μέρες -με αφορμή τη διαμαρτυρία στο ντεπόζιτο των Φυλακών- ο Τάσσος Παπαδόπουλος είχε δηλώσει (3/10/2007): "Πόσοι στην Κύπρο υποστηρίζουν ότι οι 8.000 αιτητές ασύλου, οι αιτήσεις των οποίων εκκρεμούν, πρέπει να κυκλοφορούν ελεύθερα;", τότε μπορούμε χωρίς καμιά δυσκολία να δούμε και τη φωλιά του φιδιού. Και το ερώτημα που προκύπτει είναι από τη στιγμή που Πρόεδρος, ΔΗΚΟ και ΕΔΕΚ συνταυτίζονται σε μια τέτοια ρατσιστική πολιτική, σε ποια Ευρώπη θέλουμε να είμαστε ενταγμένοι οι Κύπριοι; Εκείνη της Ε.Ε. που ενθαρρύνει και προωθεί την ενσωμάτωση των μεταναστών στις τοπικές κοινωνίες ή στην άλλη του Χάιντερ, του Λεπέν και του Καρατζαφέρη; Από αυτή τη στήλη πριν από 15 μέρες με αφορμή επεισόδια εις βάρος Τ/Κ που έρχονται να ψωνίσουν από υπεραγορές, έγραφα ότι " ο εθνικισμός και ο ρατσισμός πάνε πλέον αντάμα και πως τα βάσανά μας είναι πίσω". Καπάκι στην εξαγγελθείσα "Ημερίδα" ήταν και τα χθεσινά που διαδραματίστηκαν, με την ευκαιρία των εκδηλώσεων διαμαρτυρίας για την ανακήρυξη του ψευδοκράτους, στην παλιά Λευκωσία στη Φανερωμένη. Κάτω από τα γραφεία της ΕΦΕΝ (στα ακίνητα της εκκλησίας) συναθροίστηκαν περί τα εκατόν άτομα με λάβαρα και σημαίες και φώναζαν συνθήματα όπως: "Τούρκοι, Μογγόλοι, δολοφόνοι", "Τούρκοι καλοί, μόνο νεκροί" και "Εεε, οοο, Τούρκοι θα πεθάνετε σε χώμα ελληνικό". Αν λοιπόν η "Κίνηση για τη Σωτηρία της Κύπρου" συνδυαστεί με τις κίτρινες και κόκκινες σημαίες με το δικέφαλο αετό στη μέση, τις σημαίες με το αστέρι της Βεργίνας και τις ελληνικές σημαίες με την Κύπρο στο μέσο, που κουβαλούσαν χθες ΕΦΕΝίτες και άλλοι, αντιλαμβάνεται κανείς ότι η "Σωτηρία της Κύπρου", που επαγγέλλονται, θα είναι πολύ χειρότερη από εκείνη που επιχείρησαν οι πραξικοπηματίες στις 15 Ιουλίου του 1974.


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ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - 16/11/2007, Σελίδα: 2

pssst!

Fellow Ombiouxi.

our O(mbion) M(astros) will have no internet for the next few days in his personal abode. This has been brought about by our very own inside agents working at BT, making sure OM listens to nothing but elevator music through his telephone and recorded voice messages about how the best way to contact BT is through their website, thus heightening the irritation of OM by BT's seeming incompetence. The truth in fact is that BT's incompetence is due to our own covert plan to overthrow the heavy iron fist of this artistic/intellectual dictatorship.
Unite Ombiouxi! Ombion is ours!
Post what you like! Write about cheap bad wine and jameson whiskey!
The time has come.

Legends

Spatial theory of the absolute

Οι αρχές του ολοκληρωτικού ποδοσφαίρου, έτσι όπως ορίστηκαν από τους μαέστρους Ολλανδούς τη δεκαετία του '70, πρόβλεπαν κατά κάποιο τρόπο την κατάργηση των γραμμών και των ρόλων. Για τους Ολλανδούς το ζητούμενο ήταν η αξιοποίηση του χώρου, η καλύτερη κάλυψη του κομματιού του γηπέδου στο οποίο παιζόταν ποδόσφαιρο. Οι Ολλανδοί έφεραν κυρίως το δόγμα της συμπαγούς ομάδας, εξηγούσαν ότι όταν μια ομάδα παίζει σε ένα συγκεκριμένο μήκος, μικραίνει το γήπεδο, με αποτέλεσμα να δύναται να το γεμίζει με παίκτες! Από κει και έπειτα, έπρεπε οι παίκτες να κάνουν ό,τι προβλέπεται ανά περίσταση στην άμυνα και στην επίθεση.

Journalistic Poetry, the never-ending trauma of history or the infinite modes of language

From Phileleftheros:

Αμέριμνα τα ζώα λίγο πριν από την εκτέλεση. Μόνο ο θρήνος των κτηνοτρόφων και η ξαφνική πολυκοσμία στον άλλοτε ήσυχο τόπο τους, τα ξαφνιάζει...

For alternative version replace the word "zwa" with "paidia" (you can also add, for extra contrast in the dramatic effect, "pezoun anemela stis alanes / sta xwrafia", "kthnotrofwn" with "megalwn" and add "apo ton kataktiti / zigo" after polikosmia.
Lessons towards narrating disaster(s) in the history of Cyprus: Never change the mode, the structure or the vocabulary apart from the variable entities. Always let a tear drop and ask for the cameras.
Guide on how to mourn: Hit your chest three times, raise your hands up in the sky keep them up for three seconds, grab your forehead with your hands and bend over for three seconds, and again, and one, and a two and a three... (choreography of mourning). For additional tragic effect you can utter the following words changing the variable according to the situation:
Απαναγία μου, το γιο μου, το γιο μου, το γιο μου
The word "γιο" is the variable and can be replaced by "tsouroua", "aftokinito", "mixeraki tou frape" etc.

The execution of the black sheep (and then comes the white)

Finishing Unfinished Conversations

En antropi na pw oti to prwi pou ksipnw vazw nina simone jai xorefkw mes’sto spiti, perki ksipnisw? Oi ennen kathe mera. Apla kapote. Pete mou oti en to kamnete esis. Ate. En opws tes klanies. Oulloi kamnoun to. Paretate me.

No no that isn’t the unfinished conversation I just wanted to get your attention.

Would you hit me over the head if I asked what makes a good book good? Yes, you would, with a rather heavy book too. I would probably inflict bodily harm to someone if they asked that, in fact, I almost did lunge out of my seat to claw out the eyes of a certain tommy (unfortunately no relation with the gun, I asked, but was met with wide unappreciating eyes, which made me want to ask him reeee ttttommy! where do you go bearing? but I realized I wouldn’t be making any friends so tried to sit tight and smile) who bombastically claimed walcott to be writing trash. He should know. He’s been here 12 years. Or perhaps he needs a little passive eye clawing.

But where was I? George Eliot is also with one ‘l’ re christo. And she’s actually ok. No really, she is. Even if she does have a stupid name. I’m filling that “gap in my education”, he said admonishingly. I asked him if he read Grant Morrison but he said ‘the art history department deals with that. Comics are a far cry from thoreau alexandra (tsk tsk tsk).’

Which brings me neatly into my subject: discovering london. Going into unfinished conversation number 2. remember that echo of a conversation about NYC and going to the city that has all the cultural references, all the text, all the films circling around it, going through it, exploding from it. I agree. From Frank O’Hara, Leroi Jones, Duke Ellington, anything old skool, Woody Allen, yellow cabs, even those 19^th century american writers, james and so on, always returning from the apple of everyone’s eye. Where then, do you find the culture that circles around london? ‘It’s a magik city’ he said and I brushed it off, but yes I did find london through unreal texts. H.G. Wells, tseliot, dickens, alan moore’s from hell, graham green (a little place off edgware road). The references to london are in its dark corners, stuck to the pavements with the pieces of gum chewed years ago, in the dust on top of the bookshelves, the monsters that scurry through the half deserted street.

To return, to return. Number 3. So. Is Ulysses a good book? Ha-Ha (no no, please, read that out loud, ha-ha, what happened? Do public school kids take elocution lessons in laughing?). What can you say to the person who thinks the english language is nothing but a ‘code’? the continentally educated who piss on anglophonic literature, so proud that beckett wrote in french, but when told it was because he wanted to write ‘without style’ they stutter and look confused. And then they discover tolkien (but through the movies of course my dear fellow) and suddenly feel like they have found a true philologian, here is someone who is able to utilize the english language, who is able to write greatly, they think. And here it ends. All english literature is crap, apart from lord of the rings, a true work of art.

Steam pours out of my ears. Where do I begin? And how should I presume?

Enough. Here is a picture of a missing bicycle. Enjoy.

P.S. The manglis way of doing the twist. (number 4).

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Pre-Commission

Jester, remix:

Εγώ κάθομαι και βήχω.
Και μες στην κίτρινη σπηλιά,
Kοιμούνται δυόμιση σκυλιά,
Kάνοντας ποδήλατο στο τοίχο.


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Via Sraosha

Here we go

Thank God! Last one. Ji a' se pethymw, pethymw oi esena ma to pethymw se. Ftou sto lo'o mou. Posa psychra vradia, almyra, myrwdia plastikou, kopsimata kai kokkino melani. Enas toihos trypes vouves. Ena egw vounari.
Here. Poster boy for post-urban sickness.

Peri orexeos

any volunteers to recreate this modernist wonderland?

ps. i vote for cinnamon instead of ginger - afou paizoume me to patroparadoto giati oxi?

Claudia Roden:

(...)I had been involved in Marks and Spencer's Italian and Middle Eastern ranges as a consultant. Some years ago they had asked me to taste some of the new foods sent in by producers and to advise them on improvements. They were trying Moroccan chicken with lemon and olives, a tagine with prunes and a couscous meal. There were also filo cigars and triangles with minced meat and various dips such as hummus and baba ghanoush. They wanted to improve the flavours and they wanted them to be authentic. There were two versions of taramasalata. Someone from the producers - Cypressa - was there. I said neither tasted like the real thing and I had heard that people preferred the one at Waitrose. At which the Cypressa representative said they made it for Waitrose and Sainsburys too.

When he left, the Marks and Spencer staff said they had visited the Cypressa factory and all the staff there were Bangladeshi women. These women were all fetched from their homes by coach and brought back to their homes the same way because their husbands did not want them walking about in the street. Recently, I got a packet of vine leaves from Cypressa. Since the management is Cypriot, I expected the recipe at the back for stuffed vine leaves to be Cypriot. It was out of my book.(...)

The Apartment (1960)

International Politics

"Bon courage," Mr Sarkozy was heard saying off camera before leaving the set.

To oti o Sarkozy diekopse ti synentefxi pou edine sto programma tou CBS, 60 minutes, epexigitai shetika efkola. Ex oson fenete itan idi prokatelimenos enantion tou programmatos, katigoriopiwntas to stis 'vlakwdeis synentefxeis' pou exanagkazete na dwsei, 'vlakwdeis synentefxeis' pou tou spataloun ton ofelimo ergasiako tou hrono. I erwtisi peri Cecilia itan apla i epivevaiwsi -gia ekeinon- oti mia tetoia synentefxi den mporei na tou prosferi tipota to epikoinwniaka ousiastiko, eidika meta apo tin toso demosia -gia alli mia fora- proothisi tis idiwtikis tou zwis. Poios gallos vlepei CBS? Poios tha mporesei na ton lypithei - gia alli mia fora - gia to poso ashima tou ferete i moira, ma kai na ton thavmasei gia to pws epiviwnei twn htypimatwn, gai to pws anelisete, gia to poso diaferei apo tin mystikopatheia -tin diploproswpia gia merikous - twn prokatohwn tou? I epanademosiopoisi tou thematos 'Cecilia' thewrithike ara isws anef ousias ektos twn gallikwn meswn enimerwsis. I diethnopoiisi tou de, eidikotera mesa apo ena amerikaniko dihtyo, tha mporouse na stigamtisei ton Sarkozy, ton evrwpaio Gallo, gia panta, ws 'Amerikanaki'. Jogging, baseball cap, demosia dramata, thavmasos gia ton Swarzenegger - what else? Kratise etsi ta proshimata se mia prospatheia na epanadynamwsei ton thesmo tou President de la Republic, pou o idios thelise na diaforopoiisei, kai apo topo kai stoho koryfwsis - kai ara platforma diaheirisis- na ton epanatopothetisei ws thesmo arches.

To ti paramenei ws aporia - kai i aporia den xehniete - einai i epilogi tis frasis apoheretismou tou synergiou, i frasi pou teliwtika diakoptei tin katagrafi 60 leptwn apo tin zwi tou Nikola Sarkozy apo to CBS. Bon Courage. Enas gallikos idiwmatismos pou snithws simainei 'Min ta paratas', 'Kali dynami'. 'Bon courage' einai omws kai i frasi pou hrisimopoiun osoi theloun na efhithoun stous ithopious kai tous syntelestes mia parastasis 'kali epityhia', 'kali tyhi' me shetiki evgenia ma paramenwntas entos twn systimatwn efhologias tou theatrokosmou. I 'kali tyhi' - 'bonne chance', 'good luck' - thewreite allwste oti heirotero mporei na efhithei kaneis se ena ithopoio prin tin parastasi. I alli epilogi pou yparhei sta gallika einai i lexi 'Merde'. Dialdi 'Skata'. To merde / skata ehei perasei kai sto elliniko theatriko efhologio ma i thetriki tou dianomi den stamata apla stis exagwges. O Alfred Jarry xekina to pio diasimo tou ergo - to Ubu Roi - me ena anarthro Merdre: efhi, koroidia kai akyrwsi taftohronos. [Parenthesi: I lexi-frasi Merde ara den einai aplos enas en vrasmo psychis anistoritos anastenagmos, i ena mougkrito lytrwsis. Einai mia theatrinistiki eisodo sto skatologiko, sto ypervoliko. Se ena hwro omoio me ekeino tou theatrou opou i symvatiki koinwniki pragmatikotita anaireite, opou oti ypirhe mehri twra den mporei na yfistate poia ws tetoio.] Sta agglika to provlima pou prokyptei gia semnotyfous i atoma pou epiavalete na kratithoun, demosia, ektos tis skatologias sto theatro einai i frasi 'Break a leg' - exisou parallogi frasi ma entelws xeni stin skatologia tis theatrikis ypervolis, mallon prokeite gia anapodo xorki pou ehie na kanei me tin leitourgiki ep-ityhia, me tis provarismeni apeikonisi. Ex oswn gnwrizw sta gallika i moni enalaktiki lysi einai frasi pou hrisimopoiise o Sarkozy. 'Bon Courage' to loipon, opws Merde. Alla 'Merde' opws 'Break a Leg' i opws 'Shit'? Skata!

Ti eipe o Sarkozy? Exitimasen to synergeio jai kat epektasin to CBS ktl? I o Sarkozy ektalaven oti me to pou o idios epevale tin diakopi - anti ton heirismo- tis synetefxis ekame isws to megalytero epikoinwniako lathos tou ws twra kai malista se diethnes epipedo kai diamesw tis diamesolavisis enos metafrasti, jai se mia prospatheia na dikaiologisei ton eafto tou ston eafto tou kai na ton entharynei, monos pia, taftohrona me mia eklampsi aftokritikis, exitimasen ton Nikolas Sarkozy?

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I e-doni tou keimenou

Here



...symplwrites...

" Όρτσα, παιδιά, και πρίμο φύσηξε του Χάρου το αεράκι "

Nikos Kazantzakis - 18/2/1883 - 26/10/1957

...and how alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying...

Anti-Orgasmic Climax

A VIDEO OF SERIOUS AND VERY DISTURBING ANIMAL ABUSE IS TO BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS POST.
NO NEED TO WATCH THE VIDEO ANYWAY.
It shows someone throwing hot oil on a dog. Apparently this was filmed 2 months ago and it found its way through the web to publicity only this week or so. The abuser is named as a certain Cypriot student of the Chios University - others say he has also served in the cypriot commando army unit (ΛΟΚ)- who has since then fled to the UK.
The first link of this post is a comment quoted from the youtube page hosting the video and thus it too conects with the above mentioned animal abuse video.


I have nothing to say. Only to show. Walter Benjamin

Obiously, this monster Panagiotis Kyriakou has hurt animals before, from his childhood. Why didn't his family or others in Larnaka intervene? Were they afraid he'd hurt them too, or is this what all Greek-Cypriots do for fun?


Εξολόθρευσαν 44 φαλκόνια
Έγκλημα στο Φασούρι

Δεν τους εμπόδισε η συνείδησή τους, ούτε τους αποθάρρυναν τα μέτρα που λαμβάνουν από κοινού το Ταμείο Θήρας κι οι Βρετανικές Βάσεις Ακρωτηρίου για περιορισμό της λαθροθηρίας στην ευαίσθητη περιοχή του Φασουρίου. Τις πρωινές ώρες χθες, όπως υπολογίζεται, λαθροκυνηγοί "έβαλαν" κατά κοπαδιού σαϊνιών, καταφέρνοντας να θανατώσουν συνολικά 44. Οι ασυνείδητοι εγκατέλειψαν το ...θήραμά τους στην περιοχή του αγροκτήματος, αφού το είδος αυτό των πουλιών, δεν τρώγεται. Διερχόμενοι κάτοικοι της περιοχής που αντίκρισαν το αποκρουστικό θέαμα των νεκρών σαϊνιών, αλλά και κάποιων ζωντανών, που είχαν λαβωθεί από τα σφαιρίδια, κάλεσαν την Υπηρεσία Θήρας για αυτοψία στη σκηνή, αλλά και παραλαβή των τραυματισμένων πουλιών. Επτά τραυματισμένα μεταφέρθηκαν σε ειδικό κέντρο περίθαλψης στη Λευκωσία, για να τους προσφερθεί η βοήθεια που πιθανόν θα τα κρατήσει στη ζωή. Ο υπεύθυνος της Υπηρεσίας Θήρας στη Λεμεσό κ. Μηνάς Σταυρινίδης χαρακτήρισε εγκληματική την ενέργεια των επιτηδείων, που ούτε το ελαφρυντικό της ονομασίας "λαθροκυνηγοί" δεν θα μπορούσε να τους αποδοθεί. Τα ονομαζόμενα φαλκόνια (κοκκινοπόδαροι), ένα είδος μικρόσωμου γερακιού, είναι μεταναστευτικά πουλιά και προστατευόμενα από τη σχετική νομοθεσία στον τόπο μας. Προστατευόμενη κι απαγορευμένη περιοχή κυνηγίου είναι κι η ευρύτερη της Αλυκής και των υγροβιότοπων του Ακρωτηρίου, που δυστυχώς "προσελκύει" μεγάλο αριθμό λαθροκυνηγών από τις αρχές του Σεπτέμβρη. Η περιγραφόμενη κατάσταση επέβαλε τις συχνές περιπολίες του Ταμείου Θήρας σε συνεργασία με την Αστυνομία των Βάσεων.
Την αναίσχυντη κι εγκληματική πράξη της εξολόθρευσης δεκάδων σπάνιων φαλκονιών στο Φασούρι, καταδικάζει κι ο εκπρόσωπος της Ομοσπονδίας Περιβαλλοντικών και Οικολογικών Οργανώσεων Κύπρου κ. Παντελής Μεταξάς, καλώντας τις αρμόδιες υπηρεσίες να εντείνουν τα μέτρα πρόληψης και προστασίας της σπάνιας πανίδας του τόπου μας. Ζητά ταυτόχρονα να καταβληθούν προσπάθειες να εντοπιστούν και να τιμωρηθούν παραδειγματικά οι ένοχοι, κι η τιμωρία να λειτουργεί αποτρεπτικά για πιθανές νέες κακόβουλες κι αυθαίρετες ενέργειες.

ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΚΩΣΤΑΚΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ
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ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ - 06/10/2007, Σελίδα: 24


"Υπολογίζουμε ότι γεννιούνται περισσότερο από ένα εκατομμύριο σκύλοι κάθε χρόνο. Οι πλείστοι από αυτούς εγκαταλείπονται με όλα τα οδυνηρά επακόλουθα για τους ίδιους τους σκύλους, αλλά και για τη δημόσια υγεία και ασφάλεια, την κτηνοτροφία, τον τουρισμό και γενικότερα την οικονομία. Εντελώς ανεξέλεγκτη είναι και η αναπαραγωγή γάτων με περίπου τα ίδια ποσοστά γεννήσεων. Σε σύγκριση με τον ανθρώπινο πληθυσμό και την έκταση της Κύπρου, οι αριθμοί αυτοί είναι εξαιρετικά μεγάλοι, γεγονός που φανερώνει την έλλειψη ευθύνης, προβληματισμού και προγραμματισμού τόσο από πλευράς του λαού μας, όσο και από πλευράς των αρμοδίων υπηρεσιών του κράτους. Η κατάσταση είναι δραματική και πλήττει ανεπανόρθωτα τον πολιτισμό και την αξιοπρέπεια του κυπριακού λαού, ενώ η Κυβέρνηση είναι εκτεθειμένη έναντι του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης, επειδή δεν σεβάστηκε ακόμη τη δέσμευσή της"

15.05.07, 16:16 pm
Στην Κύπρο ξεκινάει μια προσπάθεια ελέγχου του πληθυσμού των γατών. Σε 20 περίπου περιοχές του νησιού θα τοποθετηθούν παγίδες για γάτες. Οι γάτες, όπως δηλώνει ο επικεφαλής του τμήματος υγείας Φίλιππος Πέτσας στο Reuters, θα επιστρέψουν στις περιοχές αυτές αφού πρώτα στειρωθούν.

Το 2004 Γάλλοι αρχαιολόγοι δήλωσαν πως σε έναν τάφο στην Κύπρο βρέθηκαν τα αρχαιότερα στοιχεία που δηλώνουν τη συμβίωση ανθρώπων με γάτες πριν από 9500 χρόνια. Μέχρι τότε όλοι θεωρούσαν τους αρχαίους Αιγύπτιους ως τον πρώτο πολιτισμό που εξημέρωσε τις γάτες.

Στα σημερινά χρόνια οι Κύπριοι δε θεωρούνται ιδιαίτερα φιλικοί με τις γάτες, ελάχιστοι έχουν γάτες στα σπίτια τους και αρκετοί τις δηλητηριάζουν σύμφωνα με δηλώσεις του Φίλιππου Πέτσα.

O tsioronis (Hraklhs Giorgallis) kai o tsalavouttis (Kostas Dimitriou) star se elliniko porno (no sound gamwto)

let us go

Pellokalamaraes

Tin idia wra pou stin kleisti stin kykloforia Makariou i demarchos Lefkwsias egainiaze (filanthropiko) motor-show:

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Post-Camping Gesture

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O.E. is going Saatchi

και η Μανιφέστα - όπως πάντα - ακολουθεί κατα πόδας
or how to penetrate into the art world with a T-shirt

Anti-Elan

Animporos, oinovaris, se poia nera na gyrw? T' apestalmena sou, kathisizisi tis kyriakis, apo pou na ta antikrysw? To provlima tis kat' exohin arches. Se apognwsi to myalo den paizei pragmatikotita. Trefei tin fantasiwsi i dyslexia apo whiskey kai ena upbeat sto vathos. Monahika pezodromia kai potamia katheta. Avlades, kipoi, pervolia, ampelia. Koilialgia se imeres nekres kai kryo marmaro. Nyhterino aithales kai katakratisi. Almyra se xeno potiri. Gefsignwsia o erwtas. Ta klassika: sentonia, strwmata, hnoudia, salia, aimata. Lexika sto plai. Misi thea apo mpalkonia ahrista kai to idio tragoudi sto repeat. Ki edw?
Pli.

H mana tou Panayioti

Giannis Xanthoulis - H mana tou Panayioti

Etwn tziai to Niko

Nikos Eggonopoulos: 100 xronia apo ti gennisi tou

9th in 5

Housewarming Gift of Choice.

Early Kosiaris, Late Xatzistefanou

One and only

R.I.P. Peraios 3

Molis ematha oti simera ekatedafisan ex oloklirou to spiti tis Peraios 3 (Charilaos Dikaios*, 1947). Penthos. Jai akoma perimenw tin dimarho na mou apantisei gia tin politiki tis oso afora tin arhitektoniki klironomia tis Lefkwsias - symfwna panta me tis programatikes tis dilwseis.
A'sihtir pion!
Jai skata stous agorastes twn diamerismatwn pou en na ktisei o Tsentas. Me to miso sas ekatomyrio ilithioi egorazete ena monternistiko aristourgima me pervoli - to spiti epien 300 000 lires katakriveia. Twra piaste gypsosanida jai open-plan tsikna. Ws jame ftanei o nous sas omws.





*Tin idia stigmi o eggonos tou Dikaiou eshei ekthesi sti Lefkwsia me thematiko pyrina ton opportunismo pou prosferei i lagneia tis erimopoiisis Palias Lefkwsias. Pinakes gia to saloni sas anyone? Stin thesi tis apousis viwmenis pragmatikotitas, i afirimeni, ektos hronou, anaparastasi. The society of the spectacle, belated.

Αγέλαστος Πέτρα

Αγέλαστος Πέτρα
Επιτέλους μετά επταετίας, ίσως η πιο σημαντική κατάκτηση`από την επεκτατική πολιτική που ακολουθεί η βιντεοθήκη μου.
And since I know that this film has been to many ombiouxous one of those pre-ombion references and mad lovers, further arrangements can be made for inter-ombion-distribution

Ed's Shed

Unbeknown

I fetini ousiwdis anatasi, ena fili pou den tha mporesei na einai. I echo twn hronwn xana sto perimene. Ta kiglidwmta: mia ellipis daktylografia stin poli to vrady. Kryfes metaphorikes ouranwseis. Pisw portes kai kerameika stous toihous. Psila to vlemma. To humour ws ekplixi kai i ekplixi tou humour ws prwsopiki ypothesi. Pafsi. Thymase? Oi dromoi pou den kaname mazi, me tin dyskolia twn lexewn pou den tha arthwthoun pia, ta heria sto apogevma tis Defteras kai mia agalia seimiwn. To potami pou allazei mprosta sou kai mono - mia laspi pallomeni, thirio. Sto fws anakaleite to metaihmio etouto. Ki as ehei harahthei sto dexi mou maniki, ki as ehei haraxei tin poli me to vlemma sou. To dakry pou den elege na fygei ap' to tsinoro, laiko tragoudi. Ki as thelw na dw haramata mazi sou, sta vouna t' Afami, me fthinwpora, xylina astika patwmata stin thermi enos lindy-hop kai limnes tou heimwna apo verantes potismenes me milti. Emmenw stin exomologisi enos Avgoustou. Mehri ekei omws.
Kai mian elpida.



Kardia Gennithikes Poulaki - Aki Panou

Just missed [Christo & Jeanne-Claude]

In Search of Mike Nelson

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Benjangelus Novus

My wing is poised to beat
but I would gladly return home
were I to stay to the end of days
I would still be this forlorn
-- Gershom Scholem, “Greetings from Angelus" [tr. Richard Sieburth]

There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems about to move away from something he stares at. His eyes are wide, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how the angel of history must look. His face is turned toward the past. Where a chain of events appears before us, he sees on single catastrophe, which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it at his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise and has got caught in his wings; it is so strong that the angel can no longer close them. This storm drives him irresistibly into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows toward the sky. What we call progress is this storm.

Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

De Beauvoir Town War

24 "14th October"s since 1983

Xwris mallia, me dontia sto apokorifwma tou flirt me tin varitita, kai me drastiriotites 50ri ["oi re, en na paw Meneou na potisw tis lemonies"], telws pantwn xristo mou, na se paroume tziai sto party, afou theleis na se paroume,ti na kamoume.Ampa tziai en sou perna...mmm (psila to kefali, pisw oi omoi, mesa i koilia")
Happy Birthday Christo
[c'mon England]
Dwrwn Adwrwn

Not bad for a failure, not bad at all

Here
Note: On day 4 the First Capital Connect Bus. Don't tell me it made it's way to Cyprus by bus....

Foods That Will Win The War And How To Cook Them (1918)

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DJ essential

Here

Spectres Transpondered

Or Raison d'etre for New Division

(...)But punk never quite reached the suburbs here in the same way that it did in England, and so, many people (including my father) missed out on its lesson: that you didn't have to aim high to become extraordinary, that rudimentary was more than enough for transcendence to be possible. (...)



Ένα θα σου πω
Μπορεί να ήσουν η αφορμή
Μα η αιτία παραμένω εγώ
Εγώ

(...)

Ό,τι και να πεις
Στην άκρη του μυαλού σου θα ενεδρεύω
Tώρα πια θα δεις
Για χρόνια το μυαλό σου θα παιδεύω

Yield

All our scribbled lovedreams...

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

Tipota den paei hameno sti hameni sou zwi

Happy Radiohead Day

in rain_bows

Again

It could very well be the 'black dog' Gulietta Guicciardi, or the prophecy I owed myself. My right cheek is turning back. Pauses, hiatus. What else can be said about all this seating down in the face of such disonance, as it is witnessed by all? Carpeted floors, minute, blind spaces. I exhale anally holding on to the privacy the tobacco offers. Then again here you are, misspelling the pain.
Using the same vocabulary over and over and over.

Three years ago

"
[...]
Ah, here we are. On what subject. The question "whose are the feet?" to which they wanted to bring round [faire revenir] the question "whose are the shoes?" assumes that the question "of what?" or "what are the feet?" has been resolved. Are they? Do they represent? Whom or what? With or without shoes? These shoes are more or less detached [in themselves, from each other and from the feet) and by that fact discharged: from a common task or function. Both because they are visibly detached and because - never forget the invisible ether of this trivial self-evidence - they are painted objects (out of work because they are in a work) and the subject of a picture. Nonfunctioning, defunct, they are detached, in this double sense, and again in another double sense, that of being untied and that of the detachment/secondment of an emissary: diplomatic representation, if you like, by metonymy of synecdoche. And what is said of the shoes can also be said, although the operation is more delicate around the ankle, of the neck or the feet
[...}
"
J. Derrida, The truth in painting, pg. 283

or
- + R (into the bargain)

Things you only learn in Camberwell, while someone is trying to give birth somewhere else

and in case the pixels are on the way,
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ps. Thanks to Katina

A genuine contribution to internet otiose surfers

†

Groucho Leanings?

Source: "Horse Feathers" (1932)

Kati Me Fai

Or What use is art for?

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Oi kalo!

Crazy Horse On Fire!

Follow the news. I am off to Berlin.

I'M MARXIST, WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS

Almost 100 years to the day Alfred Jarry died and a few years since a substantial amount of facial hair made its appearance on the international football scene, Omada Ergasias will be participating at Art Forum Berlin (29 Sep – 03 Oct. 07) with a fête titled I' M MARXIST, WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS. A concoction of sports eventualities, filmic renderings and audio-visual artifacts are some of the opportunities to be laid bare by Omada Ergasias in another project of revisiting Alfred Jarry's extended legacy, briefly. Borrowing the language, format and tactics employed by art exhibitions, symposiums and amusement fairs I' M MARXIST, WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS will consist, amongst others, of a Trialectic Footbal Tournament, a 300km/h pedal bike competition, a conversation on aspects of the 'Pataphysical in contemporary culture, all open to the public of Art Forum Berlin. Also during I' M MARXIST, WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS one will be able to view a film program compiled by Omada Ergasias on 'Pataphysical offsprings under the title 'The Molecular Theory of Bicycles' and listen to the first-ever specially composed soundtrack by a member of Omada Ergasias to Jarry's Ubu Roi.
T-shirts and other souvenirs will be available for purchase alongside the obligatory artist poster editions and the late night party. This last one will take place on Sunday 30th September 2007 at the United Nations Plaza.

I’M MARXIST WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS ° PROGRAM

SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2007

15.00 TRIALECTIC FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT DRAW
LOCATION: ART FORUM BERLIN ° HEADQUARTERS (COMPANY LOUNGE OF ART FORUM BERLIN, HALL 19, PALAIS AM FUNKTURM, UPPER FLOOR)

16.00 TRIALECTIC FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
LOCATION: ART FORUM BERLIN ° SOMMERGARTEN

SUNDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2007

17.00 THE MOLECULAR THEORY OF BICYCLES
MEMBERS OF OMADA ERGASIAS IN CONVERSATION ON VARIOUS ‘PATAPHYSICAL PHENOMENA IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE, INTRODUCING THE FILMS TO FOLLOW.
LOCATION: UNITED NATION PLAZA (PLATZ DER VEREINTEN NATIONEN 14A, 10249)

18.00 A SELECTION OF FILMS RELATED TO JARRY’S LEGACY
LOCATION: UNITED NATIONS PLAZA

22.00 AGAPOULA MOU POTE DEN THA ‘SE MONI ° CLOSING PARTY °
AN ESPECIALLY COMPOSED SCORE FOR UBU ROI BY A MEMBER OF OMADA ERGASIAS WILL BE PERFORMED

I’ M MARXIST WITH GROUCHO LEANINGS HEADQUARTERS WILL REMAIN OPEN THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF ART FORUM BERLIN ° INFORMATION & SOUVENIRS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE °
OPENING HOURS: SAT. 29TH SEPT. – TUE. 2ND
OCT. 12.00 – 20.00 / WED. 3RD OCT. 12.00 – 18.00

DESTROYinc ATHENS

Installments on The Fiction of Development.
Click, Read, Consider.


Kerameikos, Athens, September 2007

Meanwhile, 30 miles away