On my way back from Lago di Gardia (pix are coming – or it didn’t happen) I made a stop at the Museion in Bolzano and saw the exhibition “Nicola L – I am the last woman object” – which I could have seen already in Vienna a few months ago🤦
Nicola L’s work is exciting, sometimes dark, sometimes funny, some did not age very well (“same skin for everyone” if the skin is kind of white is bombing intersectionality-wise IMO), and some is outright naïvely romanticizing personalities (like Ulrike Meinhof or Jeanne d’Arc).
And while I found the Museion quite fascinating the last time (probably due to the exhibition theme), today I got pretty claustrophobic in the lonely staircase down to the basement. Not sure this modern architecture is suitable for every topic or artist’s work 😱
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Bevor Merz & Co. WeAct zu einem Teil der Antifa erklären…
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Cannot believe this shit is back again, with commercials and all… 🤦
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Der ganze große Unterhaltungsquatsch im Privatfernsehen, erklärte Postman, zerstöre die Chancen auf Bildung, Aufklärung und damit die Idee des vernünftigen, demokratischen Staatswesens. Das würde heute niemand mehr so sagen – nicht etwa, weil die These widerlegt ist, sondern weil das Privatfernsehen neben den US-Netzgiganten inzwischen so niedlich wirkt.
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The Electric Slide – The history, 99% decline, and future of the Electric Stack.
After catching up to America in electricity generation in just 2010, China now generates 2.5x as much electricity as we do.
It also dominates the technologies that turn electricity into action: the Electric Stack.
- Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Magnets and Electric Motors
- Power Electronics
- Embedded Compute
Today, China produces 75% of lithium-ion batteries globally and manufactures 90% of the neodymium magnets that make motors spin. In power electronics and embedded compute, it’s rapidly gaining ground.
That means that China controls the means of producing electric vehicles (EVs), drones, robots, and all of the other electric products that are replacing the combustion-driven machines on which America built its might.
As we speak, everything that moves, heats, lights up, computes, or converts energy is being rebuilt to perform better, faster, cheaper, quieter, and as a freebie, cleaner around electric technology.
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