key speaker of an international conference on progress in different cultures was the south african breyten breytenbach, who delivered a rather pessimistic view on progress in the aera of globalisation: progress? no. creativity? out of necessity. there may be no progress, but we have to keep on imagining ourselves. there may be no progress, but we must continue creating the premises of facts on the ground. the world - our world - has existed since all times, and every day we have to create it anew. if we did not walk the earth it would not exist.
sauseschritt is almost convinced although ......

breyten breytenbach´s rede

der zeit

people, who often travel, do sometimes have this special perspective on the environment the act in: an often narrow, but nevertheless interesting view. from the last trip to the zagreb meeting sauseschritt remembers specific images: a shabby public telefone cell, the monument in front of the faculty, pink plastic mugs ....

[the stones ...] must be very surprised too, finding themselves presented on an austrian weblog, after laying unnoticed for million of years in the norwegian mountains. they all come from vågå in jotunheimen (in south central norway, some 300 km to the north west of oslo) .... most of the stones were found at the shores of the mountain lake gjende. what are the chances for a stone to end up on the internet? It is a funny world.
writes t. in response to my [previous post ....].

if you're norwegian and wonder what a blog is, check out bloggskolen. if you are norwegian and know what a blog is, perhaps even use it a lot and have done research on the topic, it's a lesson in how blogging looks from the outside, way outside academia,
writes torill mortensen and provides us with the respective link. although sauseschritt is not able to understand, he does recommend it to t. hoping that this offer might convince the unconvinced.

sometimes travelling by train is a way to stop time running too fast. on sauseschritts way back from salzburg, having finished some work at the famous salzburg seminar, it happened: a lady entered the compartment and all of a sudden both of them were heavily involved in complaining about modern business life. on the one hand people being exploited totally with respect to their physical, emotional and mental resources, on the other hand people who miss work (underemployed, unemployed). turbocapitalism demands this speed that really kills: no patience for those, who react too slow and no time to create things carefully. when will the economic, political and social system implode finally? what will we do not to burn out too early?

das projekt dient der gewinnung, ausbildung und betreuung von patinnen und paten, die bereit sind für unbegleitete minderjährige schutzbedürftige persönliche verantwortung zu übernehmen. das projekt wird von der asylkoordination österreich in kooperation mit unicef durchgeführt und sucht die enge zusammenarbeit mit dem jugendamt wien ( ma11 ), anderen zuständigen behörden, dem unhcr, unicef und diversen unterbringungseinrichtungen. das Projekt connecing people dient primär dem wohle von unbegleiteten minderjährigen flüchtlingen. es soll die jugendlichen darin unterstützen, perspektiven für ihren aufenthalt in österreich zu entwickeln und will einen beitrag leisten, dass sie sich besser in der für sie fremden umgebung zurechtfinden können.

hinsurfen,

...... how many countries have dared to examine their past in depth? how many countries have dared to get to the bottom of what happened? asked the chilenean president ricardo lagos when he has been presented the major report on torture and detention of pinochet´s military regime according to bbc news. sauseschritt is impressed: a politician finally means what he says!

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