monochrom Classics: The BRAICIN (feat. Bre Pettis)
One of our monochrom classics from 2007, featuring Bre Pettis. Link
Month: May 2010
monochrom-Klassiker: The BRAICIN
Ein Klassiker aus dem Hause mono, mit Spezialgast Bre Pettis. Link
monochrom @ Fest der Manifeste II
Die 60er Jahre. Zeit der Revolten und der Gesellschaftskritik. Junge Wilde, sogar in Österreich: Von der Hundsgruppe zu den Phantastischen Realisten, vom Kreis um Monsignore Otto Mauer bis zu den Wiener Aktionisten. Gemeinsam mit zeitgenössischen Künstlern treten einige der Protagonisten von damals in der Roten Bar auf und lesen aus ihren Manifesten. Mit Arik Brauer, … Read more
Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues, Using ‘Biological Legos’
Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers. Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have come up with … Read more
Thatcher could have nuked Cordoba?
Well… yes. 1982. It’s known that there were British nuclear weapons in the Falklands conflict zone, according to the Times. And two years after the war, the Labour Party demanded an inquiry into a report that Britain had sent a Polaris submarine to Ascension Island, the staging ground for Britain’s naval task force, to be … Read more
Saturn Silhouette
A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. Although the sun is eclipsed by Saturn in this dramatic image, some sunlight scatters through the uppermost part of the atmosphere to reach Cassini’s cameras. Link
The Politics of Genocide: Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System
Excerpted from The Politics of Genocide (Monthly Review Press, 2009). Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia “may have been the most misrepresented series of major events over the past twenty years.” But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies, and civil wars that have ravaged several countries in the Great Lakes … Read more
Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Teil 2)
monochrom präsentiert eine Vortragsreihe von Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning these into the starting point … Read more
Guerrilla Communication: A Lecture (Part 2)
monochrom presents the second part of a lecture series by Johannes Grenzfurthner. The terms guerrilla communication (and communication guerrilla) refer to unconventional forms of communication and/or intervention in more conventional processes of communication. Communication guerilla is a specific style of political action drawing from a watchful view of the paradoxes and absurdities of power, turning … Read more