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Posted On August 9, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore lebt und schreibt in dieser Gesellschaft. Heute:  Tötungen „im Affekt“ gehören anscheinend zur anthropologischen Norm von Homo Sapiens und scheinen „global“ verständlich. Christopher G. Moore zeigt, wie auch bei solchen „klaren“ Phänomenen die Kontexte zum Verständnis notwendigerweise mitgedacht werden müssen … Impulse Control & Crime Two unrelated Thailand crime stories shared a common theme this week—impulsive, violent behavior. In one case, a sixty-two year old mother confessed to the police that she hadRead More

Posted On Juli 26, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore lebt und schreibt in dieser Gesellschaft. Heute: Das Netz verändert die Welt, klar. Christopher G. Moore untersucht die Rolle privater Ermittler, die mittel Internet-Recherchen alte, ungelöste Kriminalfälle wieder aufleben lassen und dabei gut verdienen oder als selbsternannte Rächer unterwegs sind … The Online Sleuths and The Cold Case Mostly criminal justice has been assigned to law enforcement authorities. There has always been some exceptions, where outsiders supplement the public officials’ task in apprehendingRead More

Posted On Mai 31, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore  lebt und schreibt in dieser Gesellschaft. Heute über ein einfaches Thema mit sehr vielen Implikationen: Schweigen. Silence “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.” ―Charles de Gaulle There are two silences that concern me and should concern you. “You have a right to remain silent.” What usually follows is: “Whatever you say may be used against you in a court of law.” This right to be silent is enshrined in the 5th AmendmentRead More

Posted On Mai 17, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore überlegt, welche Rolle AI – Artificial Intelligence heute in unserem Leben spielt, besonders, was deren verbrecherischen Aspekte angeht: AI Overdrive and We are in the Way The nature of crime is relatively straightforward across all cultures. Criminals depend on others who fail to cross check for danger and assess the risk of what lies waiting in the shadows. We grow fat and complacent and lazy. Members of the criminal class calculate their chances of making themselves richer at our expense and move away from the crime sceneRead More

Posted On Februar 8, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore lebt in dieser Gesellschaft. Heute: Dass Franz Kafkas Rolle für den Kriminalroman eminent wichtig und noch nicht einmal ansatzweise analysiert ist, das wussten wir. Christopher G. Moores Kafka-Betrachtung im Kontext der aktuellen politischen Situation in Thailand ist höchst spannend: Kafka The Grand Master of Noir: A Lesson for Thailand The New Statesman had an article titled “Death by data: how Kafka’s The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state” by ReinerRead More

Posted On Februar 1, 2014By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore lebt in dieser Gesellschaft. Das organisierte Verbrechen ist systemisch da, wo es Profite gibt. Mensch oder Tier als Ware, tot oder lebendig … das sind keine sinnvollen Kriterien mehr. Es zählt der Kilo-Preis. A Kilo of Rhino Horn The price of looking the other way by state officials has a new measurement: the Rhino Horn Index. Like a Hollywood list for actors and directors, those in the know can scroll down and findRead More

Posted On Dezember 14, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Gute Kriminalliteratur basiert auf Realität; die lungert nun aber nicht so einfach in Raum und Zeit, sondern baut sich zusammen. U. a. aus Informationen. Christopher G. Moore über genau dieses Thema: Informationen Where do you get your information? There is has never been a time with more sources of information available for little or no cost to billions of people. An Internet connection puts you into a sea of information that your grandfather’s world would have found astounding. There is a dark side to the information revolution: misinformation, lies, fraud andRead More

Posted On November 16, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore heute über Zeit und timing, den Essentials von Literatur und anderen Künsten: Duration Time is etched into our culture. It is reflected in our language—losing time, wasting time, saving time and serving time are some examples. When someone breaches the law we punish them by confining them for a period of time, sometimes for life. Lawyer bill clients according to the time spent—another indication that time and money are things woven together. You can go out in a blaze of glory like Miles Davis, John Coltrane andRead More

Posted On November 9, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Wir denken bei Thailand automatisch an Sex-Business, Sex-Tourismus, Korruption und organisierte Kriminalität. Von außen. Christopher G. Moore lebt in dieser Gesellschaft. Heute eine Warnung vor den Chimären der Forensik, mit allen Implikationen für die Crime Fiction: Chimeras in the Forensic Lab It seems every week that scientific discoveries are upsetting conventional wisdom about our understanding of reality. The scientific shakeup of beliefs cascades through the culture, including (and especially) the arts. The latest example is our understanding about DNA and the genome. Remember the race to be the first toRead More

Posted On Oktober 26, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore heute über Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller, die, wie es so schön heißt, in die Jahre kommen … The Graying of Word Weavers One of the questions commonly asked of a novelist is: Who is the audience for your novel? The realistic answer is: I don’t know but I guess I’ll find out. But you’ll rarely see that answer. Every novelist believes there is a huge audience on the horizon and with some hand waiving they will notice the object called a book and wish to own, read, andRead More

Posted On September 21, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore lenkt heute unseren Blick auf die spannende Frage, was man eigentlich mit delinquenten Greisen macht, die geriatrisch auffällig sind. Gleich erschießen ist so gesehen eine Option … In the Age When Old Men Are Shot In an AP wire report out of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, a hard of hearing 107-year-old man barricaded himself into a room with a weapon. The police dispatched a SWAT squad. One of the cops, Sgt. David DeFoor, who shot and killed centenarian Monroe Isadore, had been placed on administrative leave but notRead More

Posted On September 14, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Bücher, Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore diskutiert die Schnittstellen von Politik und Ästhetik, die für alle realitätsbearbeitende Literatur so wichtig ist anhand von Orwells berühmter Besprechung des Skandalromans jener Jahre: Henry Millers „Wendekreis des Krebses“. An Orwellian Look on Henry Miller George Orwell’s 1940 review of Tropic of Cancer is worth revisiting for several reasons. Not least of which is the critical lens that one novelist uses to examine, evaluate and analyze another novelist’s work. Reviews often reveal as much about the biases of the reviewer as they do with the book underRead More

Posted On August 31, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

… Diesmal beschäftigt sich Christopher G. Moore mit einem immer spanennden Thema – der Spieltheorie! The Prisoners Dilemma Psychology, economic, law and mathematics have interesting perspectives on the dynamics between two or more people who must decide to co-operate or betray the other person to minimize punishment. Here’s an example of how the Prisoners Dilemma works. Two suspects, Larry and Carl are arrested after a warehouse break in. The circumstantial evidence indicates they were the guilty party. Circumstantial evidence may be insufficient convict, and if both of the suspects co-operateRead More

Posted On August 24, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Was also haben Godot und Auftragsmörder miteinander zu tun? Und wer könnte auf die Idee kommen, das könnte tatsächlich so sein? Christopher G. Moore, unser Mann in Bangkok, klar: When Godot is an Assasin and You don’t have to wait The 2013 Thai Most Wanted Hitmen list has 100 names. The 2011 list had only 75 names. That’s a 25% productivity and employment increase in two years. If this were the economy, people would be in the streets celebrating. This list is not Thai companies on the stock exchange butRead More

Posted On August 17, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Vorbei im digitalen Zeitalter mit den gemütlichen Noir-Atmosphären? Nein, meint Christopher G. Moore, unser Mann in Bangkok – noir funktioniert auch futuristisch: Big Data Noir No noir story will match the ones told by Big Data. In the future, noir stories will emerge from Big Data only it won’t be fiction. Authors of crime fiction, noir, hardboiled, or otherwise, are like monks writing manuscripts before the printing press. Our end will be as noir as their end. Here’s the story of how that will come about. I’ve thought of writingRead More

Posted On Juni 29, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Die Rekonstruktion von Verbrechen kann für ihre Aufklärung wichtige Hinweise bringen, aber oft überwiegt das Spektakel und dann sind wir schon nahe an Shakespeare. Christopher G. Moore über eine bemerkenswerte Polizei-Praxis. Re-enactement of Crimes – Reality checks Theatre since the time of Greeks produced plays as a mirror to hold up to a society to see the reality of their existence. We are accustomed to the division of drama into the two different aspects of our lives—comedy and tragedy. We respond with laughter or tears as the emotional chords areRead More

Posted On Juni 22, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Where the Wild Things Are: Bangkok Bangkok this week has secured its reputation as the place (to borrow Maurice Sendak’s book title) Where the Wild Things Are. Wild things like in wild, feral animals are a good place to begin a Conrad-like journey into the heart of urban darkness. Noah, according the myth, collected a pair of each animal and loaded them onto an arc as he had advanced warning that a flood would wipe out life on the planet. This week a modern version of Noah was busted inRead More

Posted On Juni 15, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore über den coolen Schurken Mr. Carlo Konstantin Kohl aus Deutschland und wie er alle und jeden in Thailand und Australien lächerlich macht und damit zum Medienstar aufsteigt: Bangkok’s 300 Exits Some weeks provide an avalanche of events—enough to fill a book of essays. For example, a German national who’d finished serving a prison sentence in Australia for theft and drug law violations, escaped his private security guards at the Bangkok airport and had a two-day holiday in Bangkok before the police caught up with him. Carlo KonstantinRead More
Am 7. Juni vor 33 Jahren ist Henry Miller in Los Angeles gestorben. Christopher G. Moore hat die Memoiren des Fotografen Brassaï („Henry Miller: The Paris Years”) gelesen und blickt zurück auf Millers Frankreich-Aufenthalt, dessen stürmische Ehe mit June Edith Smith Mansfield seine und Beziehung zu Anaïs Nin. Re-imagining Henry Miller – In Bangkok and New York, Barney Rosset told me many stories about Henry Miller.  He’d published Miller and knew the author personally. My views about Henry Miller have been shaped by Barney’s recollections over the years. Richard Seavers alsoRead More

Posted On Mai 25, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Leselisten – nicht zu verwechseln mit Buchtipps – sind höchst subjektive Vorschläge, Leselisten können ganze Welten aufmachen und sagen viel über den Empfehlenden – hier eine von Christopher G. Moore. 16th Birthday Reading List Dear Hunter, Your mother, Susan, who is a long-time reader of my books, asked me to suggest a reading list for your 16th birthday. What books would I recommend for a 16-year-old? Every author and reader would suggest a different list of authors and titles. Choices such as these will be contentious. No list is ever complete.Read More

Posted On Mai 11, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore über junge Männer, Waffen und Testosteron, mit anderen Worten: I am Awesome Some criminals start out young as they embark on a life of crime. Many reasons can be found to explain why someone turned ‘bad’ and adopted the life of an outlaw. One of those reasons is financial. The criminal wants a certain life style that takes money. He has a choice—find a job, save up for the car, the condo, the holidays, to support his partner and dependents. Or if his plans are grand, thenRead More

Posted On April 27, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Der dritte und letzte Teil des von Christopher G. Moores „global crime“-Essay dreht sich um Zensur, ein tückisches Thema, weil es direkte und indirekte Zensur gibt. Dispatches from the frontline of Crime Fiction’s Extremistan – Part 3: Censorship What controls Extremistan authors, what keeps them off the grid is an effective system of censorship backed by punitive laws. Unless you’ve lived outside of North America or Western Europe, you won’t have experienced the ‘eye’ of authorities (and their true believers or paid for shills) monitoring all communications, including books forRead More

Posted On April 20, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Lesen Sie heute den zweiten Teil von Christopher G. Moores 3-teiliger Tour de Force durch die global-crime-Landschaft. Dispatches from the frontline of Crime Fiction’s Extremistan, Part 2 What is the limit of our knowledge about the library of crime fiction novels written, published and read each year inside Extremistan? There are no shortage of people claiming knowledge about a library that may not be Borges’ infinite library, but a library with shelves filled with books that are inaccessible to most readers. The point is we are having a debate whereRead More

Posted On April 6, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumne

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Christopher G. Moore beginnt einen dreiteiligen Essay über “global crime”-fiction: Dispatches from the frontline of Crime Fiction’s Extremistan: Part 1 This is the first of a three-part series about Crime Fiction’s Extremistan. A discussion has started at Detectives Beyond Borders about the future of crime fiction. The controversy started with an exchange at the South African blog Crime Beat with crime fiction reviewer Gunter Blank who views crime fiction in the USA, Sweden, Germany as having gone into a recycling phase where nothing but repetitive motifs and themes are appearing.Read More

Posted On März 30, 2013By Peter MuenderIn Bücher, Crimemag

Peter Münder: Christopher G. Moore im Triple-Pack

Untergetaucht im asiatischen Bermuda-Dreieck – Christopher G. Moore, unser Mann (Views from Bangkok) in Bangkok, hat seinen neuesten (noch nicht übersetzten) Krimi in Rangun angesiedelt, wo neue Goldgräber-Zeiten angebrochen sind. Sein Private Eye Vincent Calvino gerät dort zwischen alle Fronten. Dazu noch Anmerkungen zu zwei von Moore edierten Anthologien: „The Orwell Brigade“ sowie „Pnom Penh-Noir“. Von Peter Münder Warum sollte Vincent Calvino, in Bangkok tätiger Privatdetektiv, dem aufgeblasenen amerikanischen Nachtclubbesitzer Alan Osborne den Gefallen tun und in Rangun nach dessen in der Drogenszene untergetauchten Sohn Rob forschen? Der hatte dieRead More

Posted On März 30, 2013By Christopher G. MooreIn Crimemag, Kolumnen und Themen

Christopher G. Moore: Views from Bangkok

Manchmal ist es nützlich, einen lakonischen Reality-Check zu machen, um Literatur und Wirklichkeit sinnvoll sortieren zu können. Christopher G. Moore über einschlägige Fakten: The Rate of Murder You’ve decided to write that crime novel. The one book once released into the world will liberate you from the day job, put you on Charlie Rose, the NYT bestseller list, interviewed by the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, and stacks of invitations to the best parties in New York, London and Paris. You’ve heard that international settings are in vogueRead More