The following interview is a lonely summit among my journalistic publications. It was directed aggressively against the forced feminism of a very feminist-dominated paper; it is turned against the all-knowing superior attitude of so-called experts, and ironises their belief in science (philology, psychoanalysis). The double meaning of my proposed title, as it appears below, was itself – for the otherwise...

The following comprises two spectacular interviews with Jean Pierre Dubost, which I published in the Berliner Newspaper die taz in the 80s. Die taz was, in its early phase, very experimental, insolent, politically undogmatic; its exemplar was the Parisian daily Libération: Question every kind of power, battle against every dictatorship in the world (foremost the Stalinists over in the East),...

On Understanding and Speaking Proficiency Posting to Twitter, I’ve mentioned the “perverse e-communication.” I remain extremely doubtful, what exactly one should make of our new communications tools, although I resort to them with increasing frequency. As replacement for the telephone this form of contact/encounter/relationship might be sometimes good, sometimes bad. One might have reacted just as skeptically in a previous...