Their campaigns have in many respects been complementary. Both candidates embrace the slogan “ni droite, ni gauche,” popularized by the interwar fascist leagues. Macron, bauble of the extreme center, seeks to substitute for the traditional right-left divide a vision that opposes globalizing, educated, cosmopolitan professionals to backwards, bigoted, and unenlightened nationalists: Le Pen’s worldview in …
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Terrible news from Britain this morning, The so-called #Brexit really feels like the beginning of the end of something great. The European Union, with all its flaws, is still a great idea I strongly believe in; it has brought stability and possibility to European peoples in a way no conventional nation-state could before. To see it …
‘Most People’ is Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’s contribution to a upcoming charity compilation Refugee that will benefit the Malta’s Migrant Offshore Aid Station. It’s also Will Oldham’s contribution to the whole refugee debate, in a sense. Refugee, a project by Scottish folk singer Robin Adams, will be released on June 3rd via BRAINFOG RECORDS.
Interviewer: You once said that “those things about which we cannot theorize, we must narrate.” Umberto Eco: It is a tongue-in-cheek allusion to a sentence by Wittgenstein. […] I simply believe that at the end of the day a story is always richer—it is an idea reshaped into an event, informed by a character, and sparked …
If there’s one lesson the war on terror should have taught the West by now, it’s that a powerful country’s fear is a terrorist’s greatest weapon. If a population gives in to this fear, it strangles itself through paranoia and violence. It destroys what is best inside itself. Molly Crabapple (via kevissimo)
In a way, the economics have almost become secondary. But still, let’s be clear: what we’ve learned these past couple of weeks is that being a member of the eurozone means that the creditors can destroy your economy if you step out of line. This has no bearing at all on the underlying economics of …
A generation that had gone to school in horse-drawn streetcars now stood in the open air, amid a landscape in which nothing was the same except the clouds, and at its center, in a forcefield of destructive torrents and explosions, a tiny fragile human body. Walter Benjamin, on the generation that survived the First World …
Just discovered this banger from Camilla Sparksss (“the fantasy ego" of Barbara Lehnhoff, Peter Kernel, a Swiss-Canadian art punk band I love.) Her new “album For You The Wild” releases April 7th. Any commentary to daily events in this region is purely coincidental. Or not. I’ll decide when I enter the real world.
But two things make Mitt’s Grand Gaffe Tour an exception to this rule. First and most important, talking up the innate superiority of the Israelis over the Palestinians isn’t, by any definition, a gaffe. That’s real, with real geopolitical consequences. He didn’t misspeak (and I’m not sure one can “misspeak” about such things anyway), and …
Noise and Resistance is a documentary by Francesca Araiza Andrade and Julia Ostertag about anti-racist, anti-sextist, anti-capitalist, punk and/or DIY-subcultures across Europe. Looks really interesting. Zebra Kino in Konstanz shows it on Thursday 6.10. & Saturday, 8.10.2011 at 28 pm and Friday, 7.10. & Monday, 10.10.2011 at 10:15 pm.(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
CLARITY AND CHAOS 