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A season in (the vestibule of) hell
Submitted by matthew hyland on Thursday, 18 March, 2010 - 00:57
neinsager Update on local abominations, written for Wildcat (Germany): subject: History
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 - 14:40
James Heartfield Looking through the mists of obligatory sentimentalism that enveloped the 70th aniversary of the outbreak of WWII, James Heartfield remembers the pitiless subordination of people to production on all sides of that crisis
In Times of Crisis: Act!
Submitted by sgbohm on Monday, 9 November, 2009 - 13:17
Steffen Böhm
It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating' this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed. subject: Environment | Film | Financial Crisis | History | Politics | Psychology | Society | Theory & Philosophy | War on Terror
Nostalghia unto Death
Submitted by Nathan_Coombs on Saturday, 26 September, 2009 - 12:20
Nathan Coombs The famous Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky once described the experience of exile for a Russian as “nostalghia” – he insisted that the word not be translated into proper English, but rather retain the Italian translation of the Russian word "??????????." For Tarkovsky, who evinced a peculiar brand of medievalist Russian nationalism throughout his work, a Russian leaving their homeland would experience a form of spiritual and physical death; and, indeed, the central character, the semi-autobiographical poet, Andrei Gorchakov, does actually die at the end of his film Nostalghia. subject: Activism | Anarchist | AntiCapitalist | Art | Blogging | Books | Communism | Film | Globalisation | History | Immigration | Labour Struggles | Marxist | Nationalism | Politics
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 - 17:36
Benedict Seymour
Extrapolating from his talk on Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ recent film about 18th century folk legend Jack Sheppard, Benedict Seymour traces the intimate relationship between death, representation, fiction and speculation. Then, as now, the attempt to escape from capitalism’s calculus threatens to collapse into another moment of capture
subject: Art | Commons | Film | Financial Crisis | History | Law | Literature | Mute Vol 2 #13 | Socially Engaged
Dialectic of Anti-Enlightenment
Submitted by midnightbell on Sunday, 17 May, 2009 - 12:42
Neil Davenport Books reviewed in this essay are: Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer (1944) subject: History
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Submitted by mute on Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 - 17:22
William Dixon In his recent book Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-24, Simon Pirani scours the evidence to determine whether Stalinism was always a potential of Bolshevism, or if events precipitated the vanguard's split from the revolutionary masses. Review by William Dixon
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Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 10 February, 2009 - 17:08
David Graeber Anthropologist David Graeber argues that it is only with a general historical understanding of debt and its relationship to violence that we can begin to appreciate our emerging epoch. Here he begins to fill in our historical knowledge gap
subject: Debt | Financial Crisis | History | Money
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