Alexander Luckmann

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A gabled church building. The walls are stucco, the roof is shingled. There is a large gabled stained-glass window on the front façade. One enters from the side, up a few steps, under an entrance porte-cochère. Next to the big stained-glass window by the entrance is a large, thin brick belltower with a slanted top and a rounded arch at the top of which hangs the bell. A cross is mounted on the belltower. Photo by Tsungam via WIkimedia Commons

A church interior. To the right is a concrete altar up a few steps from a tiled floor. The altar is surrounded on at least two sides by benches and chairs, the side wall has large blue and green stained-glass windows. The sloped ceiling is panelled in wood. A cross hangs behind and above the altar. Photo via Pastoralverband Lippe, https://www.pv-lippe-detmold.de/detail/gottesdienstplan/?backPid=28&listCat=5

A photo of the altar behind a central aisle with pews either side. The pews in fact surround the altar from three sides. Photo via Forschungsstelle für Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhunderts eV, https://www.glasmalerei-ev-web.de/pages/b4393/b4393.shtml

A side view of the church, showing its location at the top of a small green slope. The side wall has large stained-glass windows by Hubert Spierling. Photo by Tsungam via Wikimedia Commons.

#205: Hermann Gehrig, St. Stephanus, Detmold-Hiddesen (1957-58)

thank you to mr. fat_ugly_rat for sharing this news

tweet screenshot from james @fat_ugly_rat on twitter: by the way Rehmet won White Settlement (Romney+29->Trump+29->21->Trump+24) by 9 lmao

i'm crying dude North Texas Republicans lost White Settlement

or, for example, George Costanza

Photo of Costanza in his Yankees office and under it a caption reading “Alexander Luckmann”

I got a new running watch for Christmas which I use not super often and every time I open its app I chuckle at my profile picture

We need to shut down the word "performative" until we can figure out what the hell is going on. Of course adopting symbols of protest and resistance is performative! Performance is a core strategy for mass movements!! That's why the call them demonstrations!!!

I really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially

The exterior of a seemingly round church or church niche. It is made of concrete with a repeated flame-like pattern. There are cutouts in the center of the same repeated pattern that, together, make a cross. Photo by Florian Monheim/Bilarchiv Monheim via baukunst-nrw, https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Kirche-Zum-Heiligen-Kreuz--3296.htm

A fish-eyed view of a church interior. The walls are of patterned beige concrete, the floor is of stone pieces, there are seemingly two rows of pews either side of a central aisle (in fact there are four), and small cut-outs in the wall through which light enters. The cross is behind the altar and is composed of the same cut-outs but in rainbow colors. Photo by Klaus Schachtschneider via Katholische Kirche Rath/Oberrath/Mörsenbroich, https://www.dem-leben-dienen.de/kirchorte/zum-heiligen-kreuz/

Another, this time panoramic view of the interior showing the multicolor cross and how speckled light enters the interior. Photo by Klaus Schachtschneider via Katholische Kirche Rath/Oberrath/Mörsenbroich, https://www.dem-leben-dienen.de/kirchorte/zum-heiligen-kreuz/

The church entrance, a dark cavern in a bowed structure with small cut-outs that angle in to emphasize the entrance. Photo by Nicolas Janberg via Structurae, https://structurae.net/de/bauwerke/zum-heiligen-kreuz

#204: Josef Lehmbrock, Church of the Holy Cross, Düsseldorf-Rath (1956-58)

A gabled church building. The walls are stucco, the roof is shingled. There is a large gabled stained-glass window on the front façade. One enters from the side, up a few steps, under an entrance porte-cochère. Next to the big stained-glass window by the entrance is a large, thin brick belltower with a slanted top and a rounded arch at the top of which hangs the bell. A cross is mounted on the belltower. Photo by Tsungam via WIkimedia Commons

A church interior. To the right is a concrete altar up a few steps from a tiled floor. The altar is surrounded on at least two sides by benches and chairs, the side wall has large blue and green stained-glass windows. The sloped ceiling is panelled in wood. A cross hangs behind and above the altar. Photo via Pastoralverband Lippe, https://www.pv-lippe-detmold.de/detail/gottesdienstplan/?backPid=28&listCat=5

A photo of the altar behind a central aisle with pews either side. The pews in fact surround the altar from three sides. Photo via Forschungsstelle für Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhunderts eV, https://www.glasmalerei-ev-web.de/pages/b4393/b4393.shtml

A side view of the church, showing its location at the top of a small green slope. The side wall has large stained-glass windows by Hubert Spierling. Photo by Tsungam via Wikimedia Commons.

#205: Hermann Gehrig, St. Stephanus, Detmold-Hiddesen (1957-58)

I was today years old when I learned that Louis van Gaal’s full name is “Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal”

Venn diagram of ‘social science airport book author’ and ‘epstein files’ getting more crowded

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I can kinda see that... like the Moore Ruble Yudell Faculty Club we have up at UCSB

gotcha, interesting!

Like what? I'm curious!

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Thank you! I love Lehmbrock, who was also a Christian Socialist who curated the show "From Profitopoli$ to a city for people" against a capitalist city. Fabian Kröning is currently completing a dissertation on him at the University of Cologne, which I'm very excited about

The exterior of a seemingly round church or church niche. It is made of concrete with a repeated flame-like pattern. There are cutouts in the center of the same repeated pattern that, together, make a cross. Photo by Florian Monheim/Bilarchiv Monheim via baukunst-nrw, https://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/Kirche-Zum-Heiligen-Kreuz--3296.htm

A fish-eyed view of a church interior. The walls are of patterned beige concrete, the floor is of stone pieces, there are seemingly two rows of pews either side of a central aisle (in fact there are four), and small cut-outs in the wall through which light enters. The cross is behind the altar and is composed of the same cut-outs but in rainbow colors. Photo by Klaus Schachtschneider via Katholische Kirche Rath/Oberrath/Mörsenbroich, https://www.dem-leben-dienen.de/kirchorte/zum-heiligen-kreuz/

Another, this time panoramic view of the interior showing the multicolor cross and how speckled light enters the interior. Photo by Klaus Schachtschneider via Katholische Kirche Rath/Oberrath/Mörsenbroich, https://www.dem-leben-dienen.de/kirchorte/zum-heiligen-kreuz/

The church entrance, a dark cavern in a bowed structure with small cut-outs that angle in to emphasize the entrance. Photo by Nicolas Janberg via Structurae, https://structurae.net/de/bauwerke/zum-heiligen-kreuz

#204: Josef Lehmbrock, Church of the Holy Cross, Düsseldorf-Rath (1956-58)

A church and, to the left, a church tower. The church is rectangular and made of brick; there are narrow, horizontal slit windows near the top of the rectangular prism. The church tower is made of concrete and two sets of open grids rotated at 90 degrees. There is a parish center or other auxiliary building, low and one-story, in the background. The whole complex is raised above the surroundings. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

The interior of a church. The walls are of multicolored red and dark red brick; there are three rows of pews with two aisles; two bands of horizontal clerestory windows; and an egg-carton ceiling. Photo by Finke Maximilian via Wikimedia Commons.

The entrance area to the complex showing reliefs of animals placed in triangular cutouts of board-formed concrete. The whole is under a concrete covered walkway. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

An angled view of the church and tower complex showing, to its left, the parsonage. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

#203: Erwin Schiffer, Church of the Holy Spirit, Rösrath-Forsbach (1964-1968; renovated by Maria Schwarz, 1983-84)

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

This right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.

A church and, to the left, a church tower. The church is rectangular and made of brick; there are narrow, horizontal slit windows near the top of the rectangular prism. The church tower is made of concrete and two sets of open grids rotated at 90 degrees. There is a parish center or other auxiliary building, low and one-story, in the background. The whole complex is raised above the surroundings. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

The interior of a church. The walls are of multicolored red and dark red brick; there are three rows of pews with two aisles; two bands of horizontal clerestory windows; and an egg-carton ceiling. Photo by Finke Maximilian via Wikimedia Commons.

The entrance area to the complex showing reliefs of animals placed in triangular cutouts of board-formed concrete. The whole is under a concrete covered walkway. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

An angled view of the church and tower complex showing, to its left, the parsonage. Photo by Raimond Spekking via Wikimedia Commons.

#203: Erwin Schiffer, Church of the Holy Spirit, Rösrath-Forsbach (1964-1968; renovated by Maria Schwarz, 1983-84)

A church from across the street. There is a rounded concrete open tower in the front. Behind it the brick church consists of two volumes: a central gabled church with two side wings whose roofs slope down outward. There is a row of windows along the whole façade except for the very front of the central volume. Photo by ManfredK via Wikimedia Commons.

The interior of the church. There is a brick rear wall behind the altar, which is raised on a podium that in this picture has a piano on it. The whole space is extremely light, with light entering from stained glass windows along both sides and glazed top clerestory windows. Photo by Dr. W. Strickling via Wikimedia commons

A straight-on view of the exterior showing the central gabled and sloping side volumes of dark red brick, and to the left the slightly bluish-gray concrete open church tower. Photo by W. Strickling via Wikimedia Commons

#202: Otto Bartning with Otto Dörzbach, Church of the Savior, Marl (1956-57)

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists.

Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews.

All Black. All doing their jobs.

College football coach Lou Holtz, an old white dude in suit and tie, with the headline “hospice”

Big thanks to both @nickhasthoughts.com and @strofo-socl.bsky.social for sending this to me, the brand is clearly strong

Even after everything that's happened recently, I feel like some who've been in DC a long time are a bit slow on picking up on how that whole notion of DOJ being even partly independent of the White House is a dead letter.

Happy “Alexander Zverev is out of a Grand Slam” day to all who celebrate