Debates

What does fascism look like from the standpoint of its racialized victims? My question here is inspired by Edward Said’s key 1979 essay, “Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims,” …
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Filippo Tomasso Marinetti, founder of Futurism in the early 20th century, figures as one of its “Patron-Saints” in Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimistic Manifesto (2023)[i]. This manifesto glorifies the techno-capital machine—“the engine …
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It has been said that history moves forward by its bad side. To radicalise this further, we could argue that history is advancing through its worse to the catastrophic side. …
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How would a contemporary Ophelia look in our age when patriarchy is replaced by a globalized perversion and when the confused fragments that compose our digital communication already look like …
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 When, after February 24, 2022, the first news began to arrive from Ukraine about the Russian invasion and the disasters for the Ukrainian population under the attacks of the Russian …
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All living creatures are timekeepers. Like clocks, we measure time through the bodies we inhabit. The human heart beats inexorably like a clock until at some point it stops, and …
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“Trauma” is a buzzword these days. Wherever you turn, someone is being traumatized by something. But just what is trauma and why is it such a hot topic right now? …
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Reflecting on the last fifteen months, it has almost become a cliché to evoke the end of history as we have witnessed the hollowness, and then collapse, of the fundamentals …
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There is absolutely no contradiction between a “pessimist” view of our world as a valley of tears, of our life itself as a decaying corpse of a dead god, of …
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“For all the victims of civil obedience”

Carola Rackete, Handeln statt Hoffen (2019)

In a 1964 radio broadcast with Hannah Arendt, Joachim Fest asks the German philosopher about the …
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