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
Schlagwort: conflict and critique
First Nature First Nature morally doesn’t count in arbitrary currencies only in deprivation consequences of destruction „Nature“ doesn’t count in wealth or resource like the second nature does, its politics solely base on that Third nature now Is first nature becoming the inescapable house of second nature being clearly subordinate…WeiterlesenFirst Nature
Systemic rebellion stays, does it? Why some forms of “systemic rebellion” become export-neutral. Why certain contradictions only become visible within specific cultural contexts. What next #punk 2026 A band like Die Toten Hosen can be accepted enough to circulate, but not engaged deeply enough to be challenged on its own…WeiterlesenSystemic rebellion stays, does it?
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
Hunting: “Wald vor Wild” in German context and the Green position What about the inner critique within German Green aligned circles, do they make this an (urgent) topic? Does the animal rights community press for changes? Who exactly does what and how? The idea of “Wald vor Wild” In parts…WeiterlesenHunting: “Wald vor Wild” in German context and the Green position
Antisperabbits target the fleeing royal couple, two skeletons sit upon an old tree, a hut, forest, mountains, hills, landscape. Die Selbsttäuschung oder die Scheinrevoluzzer Der Scheinrevoluzzer verkauft Dir linkskonservative Träume In denen der Mensch weiter die Welt instrumentalisiert So instrumentalisiert er auch jeden revolutionären Anspruch Und bildet sich ein, die…WeiterlesenSpeziesisten täuschen (1)
Halvard-Halvardson – The typische DACH „Tierbefreier*in“. „Eure ewige Objektifizierung tut weh, ihr scheint es so zu wollen!“ schließt Halvard. Halvard beobachtet: Manche Menschen meinen, sie seien die „ultimativen Tierbefreier“. Sie retten Tiere, posieren als gut und lieb – und doch sprechen und schreiben sie weiter in den alten, miesen speziesistischen…WeiterlesenYour constant objectification hurts
The stench of coloniality and of ethnic, religious, ideological, or whatever-kind-of supremacism clings stubbornly to the notion of “compassion,” where the starkest forms of injustice scorch the earth in their most grotesque expressions. Don’t call it what it is? Why wouldn’t you? Clinging to the idea of Homo sapiens in…WeiterlesenCompassion is not a sense of justice
Consumerism wins either way. A modernity that unites and everyone can apply to their standards. The only difference is, you now get the hilarious warring forms too. Paradise has long been lost and the attempt to reestablish it can simply not be corrupted. How to sell it then if you…WeiterlesenThe vicious circles
The German far right individuals call their foreign support now „loyalists“ that they want to „leave Germany immediately“, they will keep the most stupid ones so to say. Meaning those who maintain a „loyal“ standpoint. I’ve personally given up on anything that has to be seen as going into the…WeiterlesenWay out to the right