A Left-Wing Commodity Fetish The left-wing commodity fetish is the commodity form of emancipation. It refers to the transformation of emancipatory ideas into commodities. What once sought to change social conditions now appears itself as a product, a brand, and economic capital. The result is depoliticization: social change is replaced…WeiterlesenA Left-Wing Commodity Fetish
Kategorie: Civic diversity
Fremdvölkisch (en) Draft Nazi anti-Semitism differs from other forms of anti-Semitism in its biological racism, its totalitarian state ideology, and its industrially organized genocide (the Shoah). Nazi anti-Semitism occupied a specific ideological position within Nazism. At the same time, the Nazi system as a whole was based on a form…WeiterlesenFremdvölkisch (en)
Insidious Racism: Collective Frames of Reference, Perceptions of History Palang Latif Yegane Racism begins when people are no longer seen as individuals but are interpreted as supposed embodiments of a collective entity. It invokes a supposed equality within a community constructed on the basis of solidarity, in which the individual…WeiterlesenInsidious Racism: Collective Frames of Reference, Perceptions of History
The Message Capitalism as Anti-Love. This text is going by a coarse mapping of Rap Scenes in the German speaking countries! Critics argue that in much of contemporary mainstream rap, capitalism is no longer questioned but celebrated almost as a religion. The value of a person is measured almost exclusively…WeiterlesenSimulate and Waste Rap
And now don’t tell me that isn’t crap It has become one of the more predictable reflexes in German-language pop discourse to frame Die Toten Hosen either as betrayal or as popular authenticity. Both readings miss the point, and yet both reveal something. The shift from rehearsal room to stadium…WeiterlesenPunks different audiences these days
Can we compare German, factually very capitalist punk with American capitalist punk and British less capitalist punk—and understand the problem of capitalist punk as feeding on non-capitalist punk? A success across the board. The German punk scene appears as a particularly condensed site of tension: between anti-capitalist aspiration and commercial…WeiterlesenCapitalist Punk
“Anti-revolutionary striving” commented: German Punk as a History of Entrevolutionization In brief: On the FRG model of success, using Die Toten Hosen as an example The striking relative insignificance of Die Toten Hosen in the English-speaking world is not merely a marginal issue of cultural translation. It points to a…WeiterlesenGerman Punk as a History of Entrevolutionization
The Unmanageable Society of Monolothist Humans That crowds follow their own logics is one thing. That no one ought to teach or educate anyone is another — and perhaps the harder lesson to accept. Human civilizations have always been systems of power as much as of culture. They organize life…WeiterlesenThe Unmanageable Society of Monolothist Humans
Two fighting antispe rabbits, three skeletons, two of them reaching into a well at the center of the scene, two goats and a wolf, and a mountain, and again a flying king on a broomstick. In tuquise and fuchsia. Gewinnertum (lang: ger/en/es) Nichts hier mit den Dimensionen antihierarchischer Humankapitäler Leute,…WeiterlesenCapitales humanos antijerárquicos
I just replied this to a very insightful and open posting by Unparalleld Suffering on being alone as an ethical vegan: Please read this beautiful entry here > Unparalleled Suffering’s Opinions; I Thought Veganism Would Be Great For My Health. On the reality of being a lonely vegan > https://substack.com/home/post/p-166449082…WeiterlesenWhy we need to take our communication structures more serious