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Tag Archives: Walter Benjamin
Against the behemoth
The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-statism, Gustav Landauer, united states, Walter Benjamin
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Surrealism as seen by the other: Walter Benjamin
Since Bakunin, Europe has lacked a radical concept of freedom. The Surrealists have one. They are the first to liquidate the sclerotic liberal-moral-humanistic ideal of freedom, because they are convinced that ‘freedom, which on this earth can only be bought … Continue reading
Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld: An Invocation
From the CrimethInc. collective (19/08/2024). An Invocation The laws targeting queer and trans people that are proliferating across the United States are a symptom of a much deeper and more insidious reaction, the inevitable outgrowth of a deeply repressive and … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Cahun, Daniel Guérin, Guy Hocquenghem, Ian Young, LGBTQ+, Robert Desnos, Stefan George, Suzanne Malherbe, Walter Benjamin
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From Revolution to Destitution
We are confronted with an expansion of the revolution that reaches the point of becoming something else. Today’s uprisings point toward an anthropological and no longer merely a political revolution, in which Marx’s distinction between political and social revolution begins … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, autonomism, Colectivo Situaciones, Enzo Traverso, François Lyotard, Frantz Fanon, George Jackson, Guy Debord, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy, Karl Korsch, Marcello Tarì, Mario Tronti, Michel Foucault, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, revolt, revolution, Situationists, Walter Benjamin
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Yazan Alloujami: Gaza-on-the-Rhine, a history lesson
From lundimatin, #418, 04/03/2024 … To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it ‘the way it really was’ (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. Historical … Continue reading
The gilets jaunes: Those who walk away from capital
While the politicians and the media scrutinise the weekly accounting of the number of demonstrators with each Act of the yellow vests’ movement, closely seconded by sociologists and political scientists, the movement persists, defying all predictions. And even if it … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, france, gilets jaunes, Giorgio Agamben, time, Walter Benjamin
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Revolution imagined outside history
Utopia of a Tired Man Borges story Illustration by Federico Abuyé The chronicler, who recounts events without distinguishing between the great and small, thereby accounts for the truth, that nothing which has ever happened is to be given as … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, Jorge Luis Borges, revolution, time, Walter Benjamin
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Walter Benjamin: Messianism and Revolution – Theses on History
The essay that we share below, by Andrew Robinson, bears the virtue of clarity; like a collector, he assembles the bits of Walter Benjamin’s work on messianism and revolution. And yet because he writes as a collector of ideas, Benjamin’s … Continue reading
Ian Alan Paul: Fascism and the Spectacle of Death
From Ill Will (10/05/2025) Other languages: Türkçe, Français, Español I Wealth above, and death below: in recent history this arrangement has proven to be remarkably tolerable. Everyone of course is aware that ever more people are immiserated and discarded, that ever … Continue reading →