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Robert Heinze

How Walter #Benjamin explained #radio to kids, in the radio (translation in alt). This is such an absolutely wonderful piece, to accommodate a whole media theory in a short dialogue for a children's radio play. And how modern is this approach, centering voice and turning the passive act of listening, as Brecht would have it a bit later, into an active ‘finding your way around’.

From: Walter Benjamin, The Cold Heart, radio play for children: ‘Kohlenmunkpeter: Don't be fooled, dancing floor king. For sure there are roots. In the land of voices, there is also a Black Forest and villages, towns, rivers and clouds, just like on earth. Only...
...you can't see them on earth, you can only hear them. And so you cannot see on earth either, but only hear everything that happens in the land of voices. But as soon as you have entered, you will find your way inside just as well as here. Narrator: And if you need anything else - that's what I'm here for: the speaker. We from the radio know our way around Voiceland like we know the inside of our pockets."
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Christina Dongowski

Ich meine, das ist #Baudrillard, der schreibt, dass der grundlegende Fehler von #Marx und überhaupt jeder Form von politischer #Ökonomie sei, dass sie dem Kapitalismus bzw. den Kapitalisten eine Rationalität unterstellen, der dieser selbst überhaupt nicht folge bzw. die es grundsätzlich da gar nicht gäbe. (Ich kriegs nicht mehr richtig zusammen.) #Trump2 ist, denke ich, stellarer Beleg für sein Argument.
#barocktheorie #benjamin #kritischeTheorie

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joe•iuculano :mastodon:

Via #TheGuardian @ 1:06pm ET on Mar 10, 2025

A US envoy has said #Hamas proposed a five-to-10-year #ceasefire and a full prisoner exchange during backroom talks that have provoked angry responses from the administration of #Benjamin Netanyahu and his #conservative backers in #Israel and the #US.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

The Guardian · US envoy’s secret talks with Hamas anger Netanyahu administrationBy Andrew Roth
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Nonilex

Starving #piglet rescued from Danish #art exhibit

#Benjamin is among three other #piglets #rescued after being left to #starve in a #Danish art exhibition by Chilean artist Marco Evaristti.

The piece was designed to protest #Denmark’s pork industry. But come on, that is not okay.

A member of the artist’s team coordinated with an animal rights group to rescue them.

Copenhagen Organization Against the Suffering of Animals.

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Marty

I'm german, have been living since nearly 40 years in France, mostly in Brittany, now retired from University - continue independant and free research, speaking three languages, even if English isn't my most spontaneous tongue, I wanted to do this in english.
I came here like many others, I suppose, exhausted by hate speech on X, publicity, reels, influencers and a lot of other shit on facebook, instagram, etc., but I'm not really a fan of microblogging, that's why facebook did the job for me nearly 15 years. After a first account on mastodon.social @danahilliot with his long posts made me discover climatejustice.social - so it's not only the aims but also the possibility to develop an idea without cutting it in little pieces.
I'm interested in #decolonial #theories, #activism, #global thinking, because euro or occident centered ideas ar obsolete for me in all domains, social, economic, political, ecological and so on. After been formed by #Foucald #Benjamin, #Deleuze, #Derrida reading and studying in the 90ies, nowadays inspirations of mine are mostly Donna #Haraway, Ariella Aisha #Azoulay, Eyal #Weizman, Anna Loewenhaupt #Tsing, but I never stop discovering and go back to older reading periods.
I'm reading a lot (essays, fiction and non-fiction) and have now the time to do it, as I have the time for a lot of movies and other medias, any of them is influential in my thinking and writing.

#introduction#introductions#NewHere
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RTL Nieuws

𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗼𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗲𝗳𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘁: '𝗛𝗶𝗷 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗲 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝗲'

In het eerste seizoen van 'Winter Vol Liefde' was Benjamin één van de veelbesproken deelnemers, mede door zijn turbulente verhouding met Joshua. Wat begon als een veelbelovend avontuur, liep niet rooskleurig af. Dat hoofdstuk kreeg vervolgens een...

rtl.nl/boulevard/entertainment

RTL Boulevard · Benjamin uit Winter Vol Liefde vreesde deelname Gestalkt: 'Hij accepteerde geen nee'In het eerste seizoen van 'Winter Vol Liefde' was Benjamin één van de veelbesproken deelnemers, mede door zijn turbulente verhouding met Joshua. Wat begon als een veelbelovend avontuur, liep niet rooskleurig af. Dat hoofdstuk kreeg vervolgens een vervelend staartje, vertelt Benjamin in gesprek met RTL Boulevard.
#WinterVolLiefde#Gestalkt#Benjamin
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Christina Dongowski

#Barocktheorie #Benjamin #Hobbes #Sovereignty #Staatstheorie #politischeTheorie #politicaltheory
This is a really intriguing thesis or constellation Arthur Bradley is thinking through in this podcast about his book: the changing modes of the representability / spectability &theatricality of sovereignty or political power from the Baroque (although the term is not mentioned in the #podcast) to now as markers of modernity. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/

Apple PodcastsArthur Bradley, "Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy" (Columbia UP, 2024)Podcast-Folge · New Books in Critical Theory · 15.01.2025 · 58 Min.
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Christina Dongowski

#Barocktheorie: #Calderon s Das Leben ein Traum habe ich eigentlich mehr so aus Pflichtgefühl angefangen, um tatsächlich zu verstehen, was #Benjamin meint, wenn er diese für uns seltsame Form der Dramaturgie beschreibt, aber es hat sich als eine ziemlich unterhaltsame Lektüre erwiesen & das große moralische & politische Dilemma im Kern der Handlung finde ich auch ziemlich aktuell: Wie sinnvoll handeln vor einem realistisch als extrem düster einzuschätzenden oder absurden Erwartungshorizont?

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