beaucoup des rêves, un rare éclair de bonheur, un peu de colère, puis le désillusionement, des années de souffrance et la fin.

(joseph conrad in einem brief an marguerite poradowska)

herbert marcuse sagt etwas über the rupture of history.

sehr bewegend, weiß nicht warum: zeitschrift für sozialforschung

geschmäcklerisch, schon klar, aber gerade idiosynkratisierte ich, dass serifen und sozialismus sich nicht besonders gut vertragen. (es sei denn, als laufschrift.)

Und am Montag, dem 1. September, war Ihr erster Arbeitstag. Ich freute mich darauf. Zwei Monate hatte ich frei. Um 10 Uhr trat ich die neue Stelle an. Wann erfuhren Sie, dass das Blatt eingestellt wird? Zwei Stunden später. tagesspiegel, via jolog

The back-to-school rush has reached a feverish pitch here and across the region. But increasingly, especially for teenagers in affluent suburbs like this where reputations and cliques solidify faster than cold gravy, it is less about pencils and notebooks and more about the high-gloss, high-expense business of personal appearance.

"It's like the new start of everything," Samantha said. "Everyone will say they don't care, but they do. Everyone's trying so hard. Everyone's at the tanning salon. Like seven kids I know got nose jobs just this week."

nyt > Reading, Writing and Body Waxing

"In marketing circles, they talk about K.G.O.Y.," an abbreviation for Kids Getting Older Younger, said Alissa Quart, the author of "Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers" (Perseus Books, 2003). "You want to get them younger, so they're full of aspiration not only to look older but to spend older."

nyt > The Skin Wars Start Earlier and Earlier

Guardian > Missing masterpieces: The greatest art show you'll never see, curated by Jonathan Jones

naked loft party: A journal chronicling the erotic adventures of two thoroughly debauched manhattanites, along with meditations on the new hedonism.

nyt > Vegas, Baby! Fotos der überaus geschätzten Lauren Greenfield.