"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, above all, to make you see." -- Joseph Conrad (1897)
Thursday, January 27, 2005
The Scarecrow: Never Forget
The Scarecrow, at Comments From Left Field, on what we should remember about the horror of Auschwitz:
A warning from the past--that resonates deeply with our current political practices... also pair with Giorgio Agamben's "State of Exception" and Zizek's "Spectre of Ideology"--mixing with Fromm's understanding how humans develop a necrophiliac relationship with technology and Arendt's recognition of the banality of evil, mapping of the "origins of totalitarianism" and the broader "human condition" ...
The "Cunning of History" is a powerful, slim book that has only increased in importance--it speaks as a voice from the past about where the war on terror could lead.
I found my copy in a small antique store in the middle of a bunch of furniture--pure fate...
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Does studying the past prepare us to understand the present?
Abu Ghraib Understood in the Context Of Past Events
A warning from the past--that resonates deeply with our current political practices... also pair with Giorgio Agamben's "State of Exception" and Zizek's "Spectre of Ideology"--mixing with Fromm's understanding how humans develop a necrophiliac relationship with technology and Arendt's recognition of the banality of evil, mapping of the "origins of totalitarianism" and the broader "human condition" ...
The "Cunning of History" is a powerful, slim book that has only increased in importance--it speaks as a voice from the past about where the war on terror could lead.
I found my copy in a small antique store in the middle of a bunch of furniture--pure fate...
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