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Die Ideologie und ihre Kritik. Ein Problemaufriss mit einigen Leerstellen und...
Der Kapitalismus ist in der Praxis konsequent, weil er muß. Ist er aber konsequent in der Praxis, dann ist er inkonsequent in der Ideologie. Bertolt Brecht Ideologie [ist] wie Mundgeruch immer das,...
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Towards a Politics of ‘Pure Means’: Walter Benjamin and the Question of Violence
1. On Benjamin’s Critique of Violence Walter Benjamin’s essay Zur Kritik der Gewalt or On the Critique of Violence was first published in 1921, in the journal Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft und...
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Nihilism, Destruction, Negativity. Walter Benjamin and the ‘Organization of...
Workshop at the Jan van Eyck Academie Academieplein 1 6211 KM Maastricht The Netherlands www.janvaneyck.nl http://materialisttheology.blogspot.nl PROVISIONAL PROGRAM Sunday, December 2, 2012, 11:00 –...
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Derrida & Sons: Marx, Benjamin, and the Specter of the Messianic
Without atheism messianism has no place. Ernst Bloch Taking its cue from Derrida’s late figure of a messianicité sans messianisme, a messianic without messianism, a structural messianism without...
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International Workshop “Aktualität | Actuality in Walter Benjamin’s...
This international workshop takes its cue from the (un)translatability of the German word Aktualität and proposes a shift of perspective from Benjamin’s contemporaneity, which has been widely...
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Walter Benjamin’s Fragment on the Method of Marxist Literary Criticism
Excerpt from Benjamin’s fragmentary introduction to his essay “The Paris of the Second Empire in Baudelaire,” written probably in June 1938, handwritten manuscript, published in German in Benjamin,...
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Walter Benjamin and the “Tradition of the Oppressed”
Thesis IX of “Über den Begriff der Geschichte,” Hannah Arendt manuscript, Walter Benjamin Archiv Berlin, Ms 466r; a reedited version of this thesis later became thesis XII. In his influential essay...
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Conference Call: Benjamin in Palestine
Who Owns Walter Benjamin? On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought Udi Aloni, “Angel under construction”, Jaffa, see also: http://localangel.udialoni.com/ Today Walter Benjamin has arrived in the...
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Workshop “The Tradition of the Oppressed”
The Tradition of the Oppressed 20 June 2015, 11:00 – 18:30 at MaMa Multimedia institute Preradovićeva 18 10000 Zagreb Croatia As the proverb has it, “tradition is not to preserve the ashes but to pass...
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Jan Sieber in memoriam
Jan Sieber, drawing by Tatjana Bergius, source: “Das Wissen der Arbeit und das Wissen der Künste,” ed. Marina Gerber, Daniela Fugellie, München: Fink, 2017, p. 21 Jan Sieber geboren am 25. Mai 1982 in...
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