Losers and Winners

A kind of Appendix to Workingmans Death.

400 Chinese workers break down the Kaiserstuhl coke factory in the Ruhr Valley into manageable parts and ship them back to their homeland: disassembly in the West – reassembly in the Far East. Dortmund’s last coke workers find themselves helping the Chinese to dismantle their own workplace.

Read the full film synopsis here: Link

How Popular Culture is Making us Smarter

"Everything Bad Is Good For You" is the title of Steven Johnson's book about contemporary popular culture. His theory of the "sleeper curve" depicts the high and steady growing cognitive demands of video games, tv-programs, movies, and - surprise surprise: the internet. It is entertaining written but more important: Its a more systematic attempt to understand popular culture than the sensational title suggests.

Steven Johnson, Everything Bad is Good for You. How Popular Culture is Making us Smarter. Penguin Books 2005

B-52

Zuviel von jener Vernichtung, die der Bomber in die Welt setzen sollte, ist noch in seiner eigenen Zerstörung anwesend.

"B-52", a Film by Hartmut Bitomsky

Urban Growth

I recently read Mike Davis' Planet of Slums. See this interactive map which shows the worlds urban growth from 1955-2015 (estimated) and also the rest of this bbc news site.
Urban Growth Interactive Map

Ozu Site

I found this site dedicated to the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu at del.icio.us yesterday. It offers writings and a lot of pictures about Ozu and his films in a very delicious way. It's still under construction (some contents are missing).
Ozu-San

Workingman's Death

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Workingman's Death
Is heavy manual labor disappearing or is it just becoming invisible?