Society
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Wir sind unschuldig
The text at the bottom of Marx and Engels monument in Alexander Platz in Berlin reads…
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Mass reproduction & reproduction of the masses
In “Illuminations“, pg. 251, Walter Benjamin makes the following remark: “Mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction…
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Deflation of human agency
One of the premier Art Deco buildings in London, the famed Senate House (above) keeps resonating…
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Ascesa & Declino: “All that is solid melts into air”
In his marvelous study of modernism “All that is solid melts into air“, Marshall Berman claims…
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Dialectic of the Enlightenment?
Syncretism is the true currency of our time. Living in London, this is more than an erudite…
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Uberize the economy and the social fabric
The Emerging Platform Economy is the new way to do business. Legacy business models are asymptotically…
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Chomsky & Hobsbawm or: Homage to Catalonia
Let’s start again with late Tony Judt’s comment about Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, where one can read…
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On mandarins and epistemological fallacies
Reading late Tony Judt’s appraisal of Eric Hobsbawm autobiography, one meets a very interesting remark: Eric…
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“To enquire and to create”
There used to be an old concept in classical philosophy, the concept of the full and…
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“The Look of Silence” and Antonio Gramsci
Watching the stunning documentary “The Look of Silence” by Joshua Oppenheimer is a moving experience. Of…
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