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A Sinister Assassin

Antonin Artaud’s very last work, prior to his death in March 1948, is the most extraordinary element of his entire body of work – and is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for contemporary artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud – through its fiercely exploratory, extreme and combative forms, along with its dissolutions and negations of forms, focused above all on the human anatomy, as well as on sonic experimentation and on provocations for innovation in...
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Artur Zmijewski

About ‘how we treat the others’

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A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen
Die Fabrikation der Fiktionen

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1929 ist ein reiches Jahr in einer Zeit des Umbruchs. Spannungsfelder der Globalisierung in der Kultur zeigen sich darin wie in einem Prisma: Bronislaw Malinowski veröffentlicht seine Untersuchung über die Trobriand-Indianer, Ernst Jünger »Das abenteuerliche Herz«, Kurt Kläber sein pazifistisches Manifest »Krieg«, Robert Byron »The Byzantine Achievement«, Erika Mann zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Klaus »Rundherum. Das Abenteuer einer Weltreise«, Winston Churchill den vierten Band von »The World Crisis«. Kemal Atatürk gibt eine türkische Version des Korans in Auftrag, die Londoner »Times«...
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