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the meaning of Israel; the mnemonic ethics of Europe (… perhaps as it has been with Nature, the answer is to monetarize the Holocaust: how much is it really worth, excuse for bad behavour or not?)

[Timothy Snyder:] Today’s Europe the Jews have served in the role of something like a collective messiah: for a long time they were a considerable irritant – they caused a lot of trouble, they introduced a lot of troublesome revolutionary or liberal ideas. But when they died – were exterminated en

no risks = no capitalism => the present corpocratic form of totalitarianism relies on the popular delusion that it is still capitalism (hence also a bureaucracy engaged in planned capitalism preaching the perfectability of the market system and continuing

… there is no deep epistemological chasm separating socialism (or at least social democracy) from liberalism. Both, however, are quite distinct from a public policy based obsessively upon mathematically calculated planning devices. The latter justify themselves to the extent that they can claim perfect or near-perfect knowledge of future outcomes (not

One of the most commonly asked questions by abusers is, ‘which coil is best for me?’

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society speaks – celebrity roast busters –

and contrary to Margaret Thatcher’s assertion that society does not exist, something seems to have stirred the ashes and provoked a moralising media Hydra. It is a monster that invokes its own monstrosity in naming those it condemns: who are horrible monsters, who leave us crying with rage, who

comme des fuckdown

Gayatri Spivak remarks with some justification in [A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present] that a good deal of US post-colonial theory is ‘bogus’, but this gesture is de rigueur when it comes to one post-colonial critic writing about the rest. Besides, for a ‘Third

it is not time for art; art has become time: it eats its young