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    EPO

    EPO geeft jaarlijks een 35-tal boeken uit over politieke, economische, sociale, sociaal-culturele, sociaal-psychologische en historische thema's. Origineel Nederlandstalige non-fictie, maar ook...
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  • History
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  • Spinoza

    Superster uit de gouden eeuw

    Er bestaat slechts één substantie, met één en dezelfde natuur Wie vrij is schrijft zichzelf de wet voor Het doel van de staat is de vrijheid

  • The Sewage System as Political Infrastructure

    What can sewers tell us about the functioning of our modern democracy? About the role of technology and infrastructure in politics? The sewage system isn’t ‘just there’ as a neutral entity; instead
  • 2006 Tom McCarthy

    City of Cards

    We had decided that I should arrive by sea. Amsterdam has always been a port, so entering it this way had a certain logic, given my brief. It was anything but practical, though: from Turin I had to...
  • Private Workshop Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Freestyle Carpenting

    with Niels Albers

    High quality furniture that can be made by anyone, with simple tools and without special training – this was the idea behind Enzo Mari’s design approach. As a tribute to the work of the communist...

  • Bibliography

    Olfactory History of Oosterdok

    English bibliography Allen , Catherine. “To be Quechua: The Symbolism of Coca Chewing in Highland Peru”. American Ethnologist , 8, no. 1 (February 1981): 157-171. doi:10.1525/ae.1981.8.1.02a00100.
  • Proposal by: Miku Sato

    Book and Fire

    Project Proposal: Reading cookbooks and the back side of recipes: food culture, politics and feminism

    Based on the research of the old cookbooks of the Soviet Union and Japan, the project depicts food culture , politics , feminism , and how they are interrelated. Recipes can be considered stories.
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark, Mediamatic Eten, Dijkspark Naomi Tidball

    Food is both fuel and identity

    A blog for Code Noir

    In light of our upcoming Code Noir event, it is important to reflect on globalisation's ability to reshape food. It offers a diversity within gastronomy, and it allows for a wider availability of...

  • "Beter geen museum, dan een slecht museum"

    Erik Schilp over NHM op Kom je ook? #FAIL

    “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Try better.” Met deze quote van Samuel Becket sluit Erik Schilp zijn verhaal af. Vanaf oktober 2008 vormde hij, samen met Valentijn Byvanck
  • 2006 Arjen Mulder, Maaike Post

    The City of Homeless Pigeons

    Early in the mornings that spring, we always sat waiting until the curtain opened and the father fed the son his porridge. In the light of the kitchen lamp the little boy sat waiting in his high...
  • 2006 Tim Etchells

    The City of Untried Chemistry

    He went through her things many times after she disappeared, but if at first he was hoping to find a sign post to her whereabouts, it was soon just his habit. Looking was a late-night searching for...

  • A look at the history of Caribbean cuisine

    A blog for Code Noir

    Whether culture, tradition or simple sustenance, food is a central part of human life. It also carries great symbolic value. To share a meal goes beyond the food itself; it extends to an experience...

  • The Hard Surrender of The Navy Terrain

    As someone who is not born or raised in the Netherlands, I thought the Navy Terrain was just a public park and historic museum at first. Considering the eventful history of the Navy Terrain and what...
  • Previously on view in the Amsterdam Biennale: Hugo Herrera Tobón, Natalia Domínguez Rangel

    Bogotá Pavilion

    The Bogota pavilion by curators Hugo Herrera Tobon and Natalia Domínguez Rangel opens 5 December 2009 in the Amsterdam Biennale 2009 at Mediamatic and on view until January 3, 2010. With artists...

  • Het Middel

    Een aan het genre ontstegen ideeënroman

    Dirk van Weelden, Het Middel Pagina's: 256 ISBN: 9789045701271 Prijs: € 18.90 Uitgeverij Augustus 2007

  • Scentless Apprentice Radio Show

    Scentless Apprentice is the first aromatic radio show, anywhere, ever! Come to Mediamatic and listen to the live show  featuring a concoction of interviews, true stories, tall tales, and cultural...
  • Mediamatic Biotoop Dijkspark

    Visitor Information

    You can visit Dijkspark and the Casting Doubts installation daily. The seedcard however are only for sale during opening hours of Mediamatic ETEN, which you can find here . The Casting Doubts...
  • Press release June 19th, 2008

    We are liquidating our library

    in protest of the cultural funding stalemate

    Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#4 Volker Grassmuck 1 Jan 1991

    Otaku

    Japanese Kids colonize the Realm of information and Media

    The rise of the Otaku generation is one of the most striking phenomena of contemporary Japan. In the last Mediamatic Issue (volume 5#3), Gabin Itoh, editor of the Japanese magazine Log In, already...

  • Joodse Huizen

    herdenking van Joods Amsterdam

    Het project ‘Joodse Huizen’ verbindt Amsterdammers van nu met de Amsterdammers van toen. Zij geven een gezicht aan de namen van alle in de oorlog omgekomen Joodse Nederlanders. Op 4 mei 2011 werden...
  • Mediamatic Magazine vol 5#3 Auguste de Villiers de L'isle Adam 1 Jan 1990

    l'Affichage Céleste

    Eritis sicut dii

    Strange as it may seem, and tend as it may to make financiers smile, my story concerns: Heaven!

  • Balanophagy

    Clean Lab team lives the Balanoculture

    “Balanophagy” comes from ancient Greek and stands for the practice of eating acorns. The Clean Lab Team is working on bringing the forgotten practice back to the table.

  • Medusae

    Jellyfish, one of the oldest living organism in the world, has existed in the world for at least 500 million years. However, we still know so little about them! This blog is a compilation of the...
  • 1 Jan 2003

    Michael Benedikt

    Poet

    Contemporary US poet Michael Benedikt has published five collections: The Badminton at Great Barrington; or Gustave Mahler & The Chattanooga Choo-Choo (Univ. Pittsburgh Press, 1980); and with...

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