Monatsarchive: Juli 2019

Empty salons. Corridors. Salons. Doors. Doors. Salons. Empty chairs, deep armchairs, thick carpets. Heavy hangings. Stairs, steps. Steps, one after the other.

SS administration building The crematorium.  The pyramid at the lower left is made of human ashes.

It was the paralysis of that public which failed to turn into a mob, a paralysis achieved by the fascination and fear emanating from the display of power, which permitted the deadly logic of problem-solving to take its course unhampered. … Weiterlesen →

‘Caught up in mere words a child is cut off from all reality: Kantian doctrine uproots him from the soil of his ancestors. A surplus of diplomas creates what we may call, after Bismarck, a “proletariat of graduates”. This is … Weiterlesen →

Thirty years ago Jameson felt novel, daring. Now we are living inside the future and many (most?) of us have largely forgotten what was, after all, a quite recent past. It’s anonymous here, sterile, stultifying.

The main characteristic features of a capitalist economy are the presence of a market that serves as the main mediator of relations of economic exchange in a society built of classes of private owners of the means of production and … Weiterlesen →

BBC: Russia’s RT banned from UK media freedom conference