Hans Balmes
@hans596.bsky.social
Editor, translator, folding canoe enthusiast
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Arundhati Roy on John Berger —
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Arundhati Roy on John Berger —
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she plants rice seedlings
in the direction of her crying baby
on the paddy bund
-after Issa
.
the arrow's shaft
points straight at the heart of a doe
suckling a fawn
-after Risshi
.
helpless in the autumn wind
a firefly still crawls
away from me
-after Issa
in the direction of her crying baby
on the paddy bund
-after Issa
.
the arrow's shaft
points straight at the heart of a doe
suckling a fawn
-after Risshi
.
helpless in the autumn wind
a firefly still crawls
away from me
-after Issa
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
she plants rice seedlings
in the direction of her crying baby
on the paddy bund
-after Issa
.
the arrow's shaft
points straight at the heart of a doe
suckling a fawn
-after Risshi
.
helpless in the autumn wind
a firefly still crawls
away from me
-after Issa
in the direction of her crying baby
on the paddy bund
-after Issa
.
the arrow's shaft
points straight at the heart of a doe
suckling a fawn
-after Risshi
.
helpless in the autumn wind
a firefly still crawls
away from me
-after Issa
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gerade live: die 2. zürcher poetikvorlesung von @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
heute mit einem brief an elisa diallo, "weil wir eine sprache suchen"
www.youtube.com/live/cpI51UB...
heute mit einem brief an elisa diallo, "weil wir eine sprache suchen"
www.youtube.com/live/cpI51UB...
Weil wir eine Sprache suchen – Zürcher Poetikvorlesung II von Sharon Dodua Otoo
YouTube video by Literaturhaus Zürich
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November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
gerade live: die 2. zürcher poetikvorlesung von @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
heute mit einem brief an elisa diallo, "weil wir eine sprache suchen"
www.youtube.com/live/cpI51UB...
heute mit einem brief an elisa diallo, "weil wir eine sprache suchen"
www.youtube.com/live/cpI51UB...
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"Wenn ich mein Leben als ästhetische Erfahrung verstehe, dann ist es in all seinem Irrwitz, seinen slapstickhaften Abstürzen und all seiner Traurigkeit eigentlich gut auszuhalten. Als Roman würde es vielleicht auch funktionieren."
In meinem neuen Newsletter frage ich mich, ob Insekten Romane schreiben und habe Angst vor der Angst von Normalhirnmenschen. (Schon eine Abokündigung!)
36. gemeinsame Weltuntergangsverbesserung
Ich übersetze im Rückwärtsgang, lehne die Identifikationsangebote der Literatur ab und betrachte Autismus als ästhetische Erfahrung.
steady.page
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"Wenn ich mein Leben als ästhetische Erfahrung verstehe, dann ist es in all seinem Irrwitz, seinen slapstickhaften Abstürzen und all seiner Traurigkeit eigentlich gut auszuhalten. Als Roman würde es vielleicht auch funktionieren."
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In meinem neuen Newsletter frage ich mich, ob Insekten Romane schreiben und habe Angst vor der Angst von Normalhirnmenschen. (Schon eine Abokündigung!)
36. gemeinsame Weltuntergangsverbesserung
Ich übersetze im Rückwärtsgang, lehne die Identifikationsangebote der Literatur ab und betrachte Autismus als ästhetische Erfahrung.
steady.page
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
In meinem neuen Newsletter frage ich mich, ob Insekten Romane schreiben und habe Angst vor der Angst von Normalhirnmenschen. (Schon eine Abokündigung!)
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This is why I love this place—I learn such interesting things!
Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":
「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」
-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is why I love this place—I learn such interesting things!
#JohnBergerAt 99 Photography, Painting and Touch: this is how John Berger thinks about it in an essay dedicated to the painter Arturo di Stefano: "Photography begins with the eye: painting, I believe, begins with the hand."
1/5
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November 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
#JohnBergerAt 99 Photography, Painting and Touch: this is how John Berger thinks about it in an essay dedicated to the painter Arturo di Stefano: "Photography begins with the eye: painting, I believe, begins with the hand."
1/5
1/5
#JohnBergerAt99 On November 5th John Berger would be 99 years old. "Some Fruit as Remembered by the Dead". It started with olives, in Here Is Where We Meet followed melons, peaches, greengages, quetsch... so let's fill cups with fruit, remember, think of him and thank him in tasting... cherries.
November 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#JohnBergerAt99 On November 5th John Berger would be 99 years old. "Some Fruit as Remembered by the Dead". It started with olives, in Here Is Where We Meet followed melons, peaches, greengages, quetsch... so let's fill cups with fruit, remember, think of him and thank him in tasting... cherries.
#JohnBergerAt99 On Quetsch: "Another reason why they are the fruit of song. From barrels full of quetsch, when the fruit were fermented, we distilled illegal gnole, plum brandy, slivovitz. And sparkling little glasses of this invariably prompted us to sing songs of love, solitude and endurance."
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#JohnBergerAt99 On Quetsch: "Another reason why they are the fruit of song. From barrels full of quetsch, when the fruit were fermented, we distilled illegal gnole, plum brandy, slivovitz. And sparkling little glasses of this invariably prompted us to sing songs of love, solitude and endurance."
#JohnBergerAt99 A week after the funeral of his friend Sven, Yves hands a a bowl of olives to Berger: "As I spit out the stone and try to define the flavor - sharp, bitter black, Greek - a thought crosses my mind: From now on I taste olives for Sven too." From the Confabulation: Et in Arcadia ego -
November 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
#JohnBergerAt99 A week after the funeral of his friend Sven, Yves hands a a bowl of olives to Berger: "As I spit out the stone and try to define the flavor - sharp, bitter black, Greek - a thought crosses my mind: From now on I taste olives for Sven too." From the Confabulation: Et in Arcadia ego -
Under the moon a glimpse of the cosmos we are floating through -
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Under the moon a glimpse of the cosmos we are floating through -
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Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
Antarctic glacier's alarming retreat is the fastest ever seen
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
www.newscientist.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula retreated 25 kilometres in just 15 months. Its rapid melt could have implications for other glaciers and the rate of sea level rise
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a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐
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Excellent piece on increased moisture in the atmosphere and flooding. Well done!!! " .....ordinary people must come to terms with a difficult truth: The floods of their future will not be like those of their past." wapo.st/4oklfvh
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
wapo.st
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Excellent piece on increased moisture in the atmosphere and flooding. Well done!!! " .....ordinary people must come to terms with a difficult truth: The floods of their future will not be like those of their past." wapo.st/4oklfvh
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“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“It is also November. The noons are more laconic and the sundowns sterner...November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
-Emily Dickinson, letter to Elizabeth Holland (Nov 1865)
#everynightapoem #november
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Frankfurt/M
U-Bahnhof
Hauptwache
U-Bahnhof
Hauptwache
October 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Frankfurt/M
U-Bahnhof
Hauptwache
U-Bahnhof
Hauptwache
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Vija Celmins / Night Sky #19, 1998
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Vija Celmins / Night Sky #19, 1998
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Vija Celmins / Web #1, 1999
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Vija Celmins / Web #1, 1999
Last one in: die November-Beere aus dem Garten
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Last one in: die November-Beere aus dem Garten
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Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...
Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...