The Political Theology of Jacob TaubesGilson Schwartz Apocalypse and End-Time: Jacob Taubes and Günther AndersBabette Babich Academia Judaica – São Paulo, Brazil, 26 April 16:00-18:00 [Zoom]
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Announcings
Short Book Talk
At Fordham University, Lincoln Center: “On Günther Anders’ Philosophy of Technology”
Günther Anders in Rotterdam
Post-Lecture post
IVAN ILLICH’S MEDICAL NEMESIS IN A TIME OF COVID: THE EXPROPRIATION OF HEALTH
25 February 2022 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, 16:00, Moscow time
Nietzsche: Looking Right, Reading Left
Retrieving Agamben’s Questions
There is tremendous disquiet all around — enough for a lifetime and a half, lived and unlived. But in this time of crisis, scholars otherwise keen to pick through Heidegger’s Nazi enabling complicity, attuned to what he said or wrote — or failed to say or failed to write — find themselves repeating currently standardContinue reading “Retrieving Agamben’s Questions”
The revolution will be televised.
The revolution will be televised. It is already underway. Already, the first generation of the Frankfurt School, including Günther Anders as well as the more prominent and well known Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse, foregrounded the role of media in all of its many guises, mostly broadcast, radio, newsreel, film, television, but alsoContinue reading “The revolution will be televised.”
Figure/Ground
Sometime late last year, a lifetime ago, I had a terrible dream. This was late 2019, before Covid-19. I was left with the unpleasant insight, sudden and cold and clear, that from a certain point of view, the great thundering concern with Thunberg, the rightful and important Dakota pipeline protests, agitation and despair in theContinue reading “Figure/Ground”
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