long live the 204th international

sim/e ꙮ 27 ꙮ they/them ꙮ germany

[miklep]

my growing collection of self-deprecating Freud quotes

from "new introductory lectures on psychoanalysis" (1,3,4,5), "formulations on the two principles of mental functioning" (2), "a general introduction to psychoanalysis" (6) and "beyond the pleasure principle" (7)

[cuties-in-codices]

muhammad's ascension to heaven (1. muhammad visits the hell for misers; 2. muhammad's encounter with an angel in the shape of a gigantic white cock who keeps track of time and calls the faithful to prayer; 3. muhammad at the gates of hell)

miniatures from a copy of mahmud al-bulgari's nahj al-faradis (the paths of paradise), a work dealing with the prophet muhammad’s mystical ascension to heaven, which takes him to both paradise and hell. on his journey, muhammad is mounted on the winged creature buraq and accompanied by the archangel gabriel/jibril. this particular (since dismembered) manuscript was commissioned by the timurid ruler abu said mirza and created by al-sarai in herat (timurid empire, modern day afghanistan), c. 1465

sources: Copenhagen, The David Collection, Inv. 13/2012, Inv. 14/2014; Christie's

[miklep]

Το Mετέωρο Bήμα Tου Πελαργού (The Suspended Step of the Stork), 1991, Theodoros Angelopoulos.

[miklep]

from: Under one small star, Wisława Szymborska (transl. from polish by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh)

[kanuorde]

We are all prisoners of our past choices

[kanuorde]

But of course it’s worse to be the prisoner of someone else’s choices

[miklep]

one of the biggest questions on my mind while reading history books about pre-modern societies that never really gets adressed at all is: why the fuck are all these people fighting?? i get that it can be in the interest of feudal and even prefeudal elites to wage never-ending wars, but before modern nation states, racism, etc evolved, how did they persuade a random soldier to risk their life for this? What was the actual everyday ideology that made these people wade through rivers of blood and piles of dismembered bodies hacking at each other with blunt weapons... or was there simply no ideology at all and it was purely done for the pay/out of desperation?

[miklep]

i hate how every movie from the eastern bloc with any political themes gets completely particularized and flattened by film critics. im not saying these movies do not also deal with their particular political circumstances. but western movies of the time get to be about all kinds of oppression, injustice, abuses of power etc, while eastern bloc movies that depict any kind of unjustified authority are all apparently nothing more than a straightforward allegory for the Dangers of Communism

[papayajuan2019]

i'll make it that deep

[sivavakkiyar]

Three from Mr. Keuner, by Brecht

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

"there are many different ways of being a person and most of them are fine" nonsense. there's only one right way to be a person and it hasn't been discovered yet. once the right way to be a person is discovered, the world's purpose will be fulfilled, and it won't need to exist anymore. this is the meaning of the messiah appearing in the end times: we are all noxious byproducts of the process by which the only acceptable person will be manufactured

[orangeretriever]

[party1971]

Krautrock is genuine magic, an occult spell cast on music in the late 60s and early 70s that infected it like a virus. A spell that continues to spread today, warping songs and restructuring them into vessels for the continued spread of its esoteric auditory lexicon. And the entire world becomes German witchcraft.

[miklep]

from: Communism for Kids, Bini Adamczak

[miklep]

They were communists. Who is to mourn them—as communists? Who if not the communists—whoever they may be?

from: Bini Adamczak, "Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future"

[miklep]

I just browsed through r/byzantium for a bit and its so insane how openly racist these people are... in theory its just a subreddit for posting about byzantine history but in every comment section people just openly refer to turkish people as "savages", fantasize about a reconquista of western anatolia, downvote anyone who says "istanbul" instead of "constantinople" and essentially parrot early modern central european propaganda about 👻The Turk👻 being the ontological enemy of western european morality. and not that factual accuracy even really matters when it comes to racism, but its also just so frustrating to watch people who claim to be interested in history be so ignorant towards the actual historical reality. the idea that the ""fall"" of constantinople was a tragic defeat of enlightened europe in the battle against religious fanatics could not be further from the truth. While central europe was heading towards a century of religious wars, the ottoman empire built europe's first society based on at least some semblance of religious tolerance. As Marc David Baer puts it in "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs":

The conventional claim of European history that Europeans first had to figure out how to live with people of different religions only in the sixteenth century, due exclusively to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, begins to seem improbable. In that story, only then was the concept of tolerance first debated and became a reality of daily life. Tolerance, modernity, and secularism emerged for the first time, we are told, in Western Europe only after the ‘wars of religion’ that raged roughly from 1550 to 1650. [...] But the historical record demonstrates that the principles and practices of toleration had already been established at the onset of Ottoman rule in Southeastern Europe in the fourteenth century, a fact made especially visible in Constantinople after the Ottoman conquest of that Byzantine city in 1453. Ottoman religious tolerance was based upon Islamic precedent already introduced to Europe in eighth-century Muslim Spain, and upon nomadic, pre-Islamic Mongol antecedents from the Eurasian steppe—that crossroads of Europe and Asia out of which the Ottomans grew. While full toleration did not exist in medieval Christian Europe, it did exist in medieval Islamic Europe, including in Ottoman domains. Ottoman tolerance is European tolerance.

I dont want to glorify any empire, all empires obviously are extremely violent by nature. But its just genuinely so sad to me as a history nerd to see how deeply european exceptionalism and racism run in history nerd communities.....

[evilnicegirl]

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again

[miklep]

Hugo Marcus might be one of the most interesting people Ive ever stumbled upon