Category Archives: prose
Why is Acumen different? An argument in favour of patient capital. — Acumen Fund’s Community
I have written three quite emotional and maybe overly polemic rants to vent my feelings of urgency, one in the “forum”, one on “my page” and one on “urgent evoke”. Now I want to state in hopefully quite simple terms, why I think Acumen’s approach is fundamentally different from the [...]
Start building a world of equal measures! — Acumen Fund’s Community
Isn’t it odd that while talking about “The Poor” and trying to do good the fact that it is people, individuals, gets mostly lost? I think a lot about the tendency to mistake the label for the person. It is a hard thing to avoid. It makes many people suffer from a skewed perspective, I [...]
Luminescent Fish and Camouflaging Squid
The following text is a comment I posted in the discussion-forum of the TED-Talk shown below. The talk is unsuspicious enough and, besides bioluminescent marvels beneath the thunder of the upper deep, documents the level of sophistication that cephalopods have reached in their ability to use not only colour, light, and shade for the purpose [...]
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Astor Piazolla und der Tango
MA SOLEDAD ME DEVORÒ – ASTOR PIAZOLLA UND DER TANGO
Textcollage von Matthias Daues
Die folgende Lesung ist eine Collage aus Texten von Natalio Gorin1, der 1990 aus langen Gesprächen mit Piazolla eine Sammlung von Selbstzeugnissen unter dem Titel „Erinnerungen“ (halten wir uns die dem Worte innewohnende Doppeldeutigkeit hinsichtlich der Identität des Erinnernden und des Erinnerten im Bewußtsein) [...]
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Failed Customer Support — An email that never got answered