Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."

This sentence of American author Ralph Waldo Emerson outlines countries' policy-making vis-à-vis Syria. The balance of power is so sensitive and changes so quickly in Syria that countries are changing their plans at the same pace.

Launched in August 2012 and still going strong, the “Hysterical Literature Project” is a video art series by New York photographer/filmmaker Clayton Cubitt. It explores feminism, mind/body dualism and the contrast between culture and sexuality by asking women to read in a state of orgasm.