Strypey · @strypey
2511 followers · 26199 posts · Server mastodon.nzoss.nz

"Where Walter Benjamin claims that, since history is written by the victors, every document of civilisation is a document of barbarism, Graeber and Wengrow seek to re-write certain foundational documents. However, while Benjamin writes against the grain in the name of the oppressed, the proletariat, Graeber and Wengrow appear to do so in the name of ‘freedom’."

overland.org.au/2021/12/playin

#danielzola #history #anthropology #walterbenjamin #davidgraeber #davidwengrow #freedom #civilisation

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Richard · @EpitomeScaling
46 followers · 103 posts · Server bach.social

I have often paraphrased something that said, that the law itself exists only to protect those in power. Marry that with ’s notion of a consumerist driven post-totalitarianism and we arrive at the reality of our present moment. The parts that are all filled in are those individuals’s whose God is their salary. God is an unwritten god. God is bigger than what one can find in a book.

#walterbenjamin #vaclavhavel #theology #philosophy #climatechange #law #totalitarianism #capitalism

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pagina-DH · @paginaDH
37 followers · 22 posts · Server fedihum.org

Ein „sonderbares Gespinst aus Raum und Zeit: einmalige Erscheinung einer Ferne, so nah sie sein mag“. Selfie im Spiegel oder ein Ölbild das beim Verfassen eines neuen Romans im Garten zeigt - den Laptop im Schoß. Ein wenig beunruhigend, wie leicht es fällt, Abbildungen unserer Kunden per prompt zu erzeugen, die im Stil einer Epoche und einer gehalten sind.

#walterbenjamin #albertbitzius #kunstlerpersonlichkeit #midjourney #ai #paginadh

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Allyson Shaw · @AllysonShaw
629 followers · 543 posts · Server wandering.shop

Just seeing if it works to put hashtags in comments to make a post searchable by hashtag?

#bookstodon #tbr #bookshelf #books #bibliophile #currentlyreading #substack #blog #walterbenjamin

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Richard · @self
170 followers · 385 posts · Server richard.directory

I so, so, so often repeat and paraphrase who wrote that the purpose of the law is violence to protect those in power. Perhaps I would be more inclined to meditate on Benjamin's many other brilliant thoughts, but I think of that idea specifically almost daily. It doesn't help that the vast majority of the public are such willing participants in the boat and pony show. All day, every day, people are lined up to protect the powerful in spite of their own best interests.

#walterbenjamin

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A. Jay Adler · @A_Jay_Adler
83 followers · 550 posts · Server masto.ai

'Cool is implicitly political: “The flaneur with his ostentatious composure protests against the production process” (Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project.)

'Politics are hot. The politics of cool are outside politics: Cool feels outlaw.'

ajayadler.substack.com/p/cool-

#cool #culture #art #walterbenjamin #writing

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A. Jay Adler · @A_Jay_Adler
83 followers · 536 posts · Server masto.ai

My meditation on cool. It'd be -- well, you know -- if you read it.

"In the midst of socially mediating, I came across the observation, from some generational instance younger than my own, that back in the early 90s people of his kind thought the rock band Steely Dan was uncool.

"I steadied myself. I read on."

knights

ajayadler.substack.com/p/cool-

#writing #baudelaire #walterbenjamin #medieval #cultue #cool

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Richard · @self
7 followers · 4 posts · Server richard.directory
SweetSumo · @SweetSumo
112 followers · 1899 posts · Server octodon.social

Portrait de l’artiste en travailleur. En éboueur.
La bourgeoisie veut juste que ce soit propre et agréable pour elle, dans ses rues le matin ou lorsqu’elle sort le soir. Elle n’a pas envie d’en savoir plus sur tes conditions de travail. Elle n’a d’ailleurs pas particulièrement envie de savoir que tu as une existence en dehors du fait que tu sers à son confort quotidien.

mamot.fr/system/media_attachme

#retrait #retraites #artistes #walterbenjamin

Last updated 2 years ago

Richard · @richard
282 followers · 384 posts · Server cylon.space

I just realized that if we combine two teachings: that Václav Havel warned post-totalitarianism would centralize consumerism as the method of rule and that Walter Benjamin taught that law is* violence, then we can easily come to the conclusion that *consumerism equals violence*, which is something we see all the time in reports on human rights and climate.

#walterbenjamin #violencestudies #vaclavhavel #consumerism #violenceresearch #humanrights #climate #climatechange

Last updated 2 years ago

Wir freuen uns sehr über das Lob für unseren zu und seinem «Passagenwerk» von Maximilian Peukert im duz Magazin (@duzRedaktion).

Zum Podcast: rosalux.de/mediathek/media/ele

#tldrPodcast #walterbenjamin

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Matze Schmidt · @matzeschmidt
20 followers · 731 posts · Server masto.ai

Zur politischen Ästhetik des Krieges

und zur "Gewaltstheorie" respektive zum : n0name.de/matzeschmidt/epapers/matzeschmidt-panzermitraubtiername.pdf

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#rustungskapital #leopard #ruestung #friedrichengels #walterbenjamin

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Dziga Vertov 2 · @DzigaVertov2
79 followers · 907 posts · Server mas.to
Matze Schmidt · @matzeschmidt
21 followers · 651 posts · Server masto.ai

Panzer mit Raubtiernamen

Ein Projekt der Normalisierung

Ein langer thread !

Foto: Panzer mit Raubtiername („Leopard” auf der Rue Royale/Koningsstraat, Brüssel), 2019.

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#leopard #panzer #waffe #waffenproduktion #ruestung #rustung #deutschland #walterbenjamin #aesthetik #asthetik

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Dinamo Press - Rss Bot · @dinamopress
525 followers · 4154 posts · Server mastodon.bida.im

RT @MattFlisfeder@twitter.com

: "Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well. Where thinking suddenly stops in a configuration pregnant with tensions, it gives that configuration a shock, by which it crystalizes into a monad... 1/2

🐦🔗: twitter.com/MattFlisfeder/stat

#walterbenjamin

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