George Saunders

Thank you, Georges Saunders, for being a genius. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/10/05/091005fi_fiction_saunders?printable=true http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2070789/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={30235456-75D5-4E8B-AE3F-52969AAEC89F}&notoc=1

HfG, December 2009

Spent yesterday at HfG -- faculty appointment lectures, Xmas exhibit and more.

The lecture of candidate Byung-Chul Han (Basel University) "Deconstruction in Chinese" blew us away. http://philsem.unibas.ch/seminar/personen/han/

As did media art student Doro Meyer's new installation:

This year's Xmas exhibit reveals German penchant for orderly Christmas Kitsch: