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God is dead, long live the T-Cell.

All praise be upon the T-Cell. 

Kiddush Ha-T-Cell.

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The other: ‘So any thoughts on how the global pandemic is affecting/aligning with the human struggle for recognition?

whenyouarenothing: Self isolation yields one immediate surplus understanding: there is very little ‘self’ without its counterpart ‘the other’. A reevaluation of ‘the other’ in the ‘self’, may lead to an understanding that any struggle for recognition starts with the struggle for recognising oneself. Step inside this temple of the world, but read the inscription atop the gate: gnothi seauton.

The other: damn, I don’t even know how to respond to this other than to say: clap, clap. 

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QUARANTINE TIME IS READING TIME. EMERGE less ignorant.

Books/Essays, Theory:

Karl Marx- Friedrich EngelsCommunist Manifesto(Fundamental piece for the social sciences, social movements of the 19/20/21 centuries

Karl Marx-The british rule in Indiahttps://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm

Sohrab Sepehri - The oasis of now.

Peter Sloterdijk - After God

Antonio Gramsci-gramsci-prison-notebooks-vol1

Secondary literature on Gramsci'sConception of Hegemony Gramsci

Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud-Hegel, Nietzsche and Freud on Madness and the Unconscious

Foucault-The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3) Michel Foucault, James D. Faubion, Robert Hurley, Colin Gordon, Paul Rabinow-Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 Volume 3_ Power-The New Press (2

Zygmunt Bauman-(Themes for the 21st Century Series) Zygmunt Bauman-Globalization_ The Human Consequences-Polity Press (1998)

Hannah Arendt-Arendt-Eichmann-in-Jerusalem

Giorgia Agamben and Walter Benjamin-Bare-Life-and-Historical-Materialism-in-Agamben-and-Benjamin

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a young poet

Rainer Maria Rilke - Stundenglas

Walter Benjamin-The reproduction of the artwork in the 21. century

Guy Debord-Society of the spectacle

Carl Schmitt- Carl Schmitt-The Nomos of the Earth -Telos Press Publishing (2006)

Carl_Schmitt_The_Concept_of_the_Political_Expanded_Edition____2007

Heinrich von Kleist - Penthesilea

Stefan Zweig - Magellan

Luis Borges - the Library of Babel

Renzo Novatore - Towards the Creative Nothing

Renzo Novatore - in the circle of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche-Genealogy of morals

Friedrich Nietzsche-Friedrich_Nietzsche - Human_All_Too_Human_A_Book_for_Free_Spirits_(1996)

Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsches critique on religion

Kenneth Waltz-Kenneth N. Waltz-Man, the State and War-Columbia University Press (2001)

Lucien van der WaalLucien Van Der Walt and Michael Schmidt Black Flame vol 1

Eduardo Galeano - Open_Veins_of_Latin_America

Wolfi Landstreicher-wolfi-landstreicher-critical-thinking-as-an-anarchist-weapon

Wolfi Landstreicher- wolfi-landstreicher-the-network-of-domination

Ludwig Feuerbach-Ludwig Feuerbach's conception of the religious alienation of man and Mikhail Bakunin'sphilosophy of negation

Emma Goldman - philosophy of atheism

Voegelin - on modern gnosticism

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‘The idea of a god who creates the universe in order to create his own gallows’

A very short introduction to Christianity. 

Thoughts co-sponsored by Luis Borges -  Biathanatos

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Renzo Novatore’s eulogy on Bruno Filippi

Who was he? Where was he going?

Fools! And where have you gone? Where are you going?

He was broken while breaking the chains that you, united in a cowardly and hateful way in your manifold quality as dangerous lunatics, riveted logically and morally to his twenty year old rebel wrists in order to crush his Uniqueness, his mystery, because he was incomprehensible to you, precisely as the complicated mind of one who feels complete in himself must be. Bruno Filippi hated. But the forces of Hatred did not crush the powers of Love within Him. He immolated himself in a fruitful embrace with death because he madly loved Life. We have the need and the entitlement to say of him that which was said of the D’Annunzian hero: “That the slaves of the marketplace turn around and remember!”

- In the Circle of Life In Memory of Bruno Filippi

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Adorno. In the year 50 A.A. after reminding people that 'A wronged life cannot be lived rightly.'

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“If man had no eternal consciousness, if, at the bottom of everything, there were merely a wild seething force producing everything, both large and trifling, in the storm of dark passions, if the bottomless void that nothing can fill underlay all things, what would life be but despair?”

- Albert Camus, quoting Kierkegaard in “Sysiphos”

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Mourning 50 years of Adorno's absence.

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“…the bitch that bore him is in heat again.”

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TheWholeDaDaistManifesto on a

Buffalo

Shoe

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Weltfragment

Reviled   by   critics   as  “a   poison-‐chest   of humanity,”   “the   helpless   stammering   of a   profoundly   sick   individual   with   a   pronounced   tendency  toward   coprolalia,”   “a   yawning   chasm   of   compost,”  

it   at-tracted   the   attention   of  

Bertolt   Brecht

*hyperion - on the future of aesthetics.

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‘We latter-day men feel just the contrary,— the richer man now feels himself inwardly, the more polyphonous is the music and the noise of his soul the more powerfully the symmetry of nature works upon him; we all recognise with Goethe the great means in nature for the appeasing of the modern soul; we listen to the pendulum swing of this greatest of clocks with a longing for rest, for home and tranquillity, as if we could absorb this symmetry into ourselves and could only thereby arrive at the enjoyment of ourselves. Formerly it was otherwise; if we consider the rude, early condition of nations, or contemplate present-day savages at close quarters, we find them most strongly influenced by law and by tradition(...)’ 

Human, all-too-human by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (who else?)

(c) Manifesto, by Julian Rosefeldt

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Everything.

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National security adviser 'Cato the Older' listens during a colloquium at the Senate; a detail of his notes, right, on Marsday. (AG Photo/ Publius Scipio Nasica)

'Ceterum censeo Venezuelam esse delendam'

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International Holocaust Remembrance Day Zum Holocaustgedenken.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, National Socialism bred racial delusion, bred hate, but if I can tell you how I think about it, then my answer is as follows:” 

and, in other words, ensures that the negative selection of a nation comes to the helm. This is the real danger. But against that, ladies and gentlemen, no one nation is protected and in this sense I dare to say that, in principle, every nation is capable of the holocaust (holocaustfähig). ”

Viktor Frankl, Austrian existential psychologist, holocaust survivor, hopemaker, eternal optimist. KIDDUSH HASHEM.

27. Januar -Der Tag des Gedenkens an die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus- 

27. January- International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For Europe and its future.

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Post-Auschwitz is a global humanism.