Category Archives: Region

The German idea of South – high noon in the Black Forest

By admin | Published: 7 June 2009

Spernere mundum, spernere te ipsum, spernere te sperni. Scorn the world, scorn yourself, scorn being scorned. St Filippo Neri quoted by Goethe The Faustian quest Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is today the proud hero of enlightened Germany. Institutes in his name disseminate German culture around the world. And the core of this culture, Das Drama [...]

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Dumont d’Urville’s epic tale of the noble New Zealander

By admin | Published: 8 February 2009

Inspired by Bougainville’s accounts of Tahiti, Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville sought out a mission to explore the south. His first commission was in the Aegean, where he ‘discovered’ the Venus de Milo. In 1822 he was part of an expedition south, when it was still considered possible that France might recover some its recent [...]

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West, then left

By admin | Published: 26 January 2009

The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning. The History of the World has an East… for although the Earth forms a sphere, History performs no circle around it, but has on the contrary a determinate East, viz, Asia. Here rises the [...]

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Uruguay also exists

By admin | Published: 30 December 2008

Looking from above, we often search for glimpses of north-ness down in the South. Along with the glittering Paris’s and Venices of the South, there are several locations that lay claim to the title ‘Switzerland of the South’. Each identifies with different elements of Switzerland. For Tasmania, it is the picturesque mountain scenery. In the [...]

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A limit to South?

By admin | Published: 30 October 2008

Argentinean photographer Marcelo Brodsky at opening of Limite Sud In late October, ArteBA launched Limite Sur | South Limit as an Argentinean add-on to the São Paulo Biennale. The title refers to the relation of Buenos Aires to São Paulo and bears no relation to the work inside. The event is structured like an art [...]

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