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Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.
Capitalism sucks. Tag everything.

Dan-el Padilla Peralta

Junk Philology. An Anti-Commentary

whole blocks of avenues in all directions | The verse snaps tight around the dynamic contrast of geometric uniformity and omni-directional spread, with north-south avenue grids stretched across the crest of human sound. From solid blocks to liquid (“we got a drink”) to gas “(As if the fog lifted”): the metamorphosis of phase-states. But when I read BLOCKS, I hear Lil Wayne: “tha block is hot, tha block is hot… Dodging cops and burning blocks.” And I remember the boys...
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Eric Baudelaire

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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Kritik der Kritik revisited
Kritik der Kritik revisited

Sylvia Sasse

Subversive Affirmation

Subversive Affirmation ist keine affirmative Kritik. Subversive Affirmation ist ein künstlerisches und aktivistisches Verfahren, das die Kräfte des Affirmativen nutzt, allerdings nicht nur, um Negation als einzige Praxis von Kritik abzulösen, sondern um alle Varianten von Zustimmung, auch ihre zerstörerische und (auto-)repressive Kraft, zu erkunden. Subversive Affirmation will weder negative Kritik noch kritiklose Affirmation sein. Das klingt paradox, und in dieser Paradoxie liegt der Erkenntniswert. Denn subversive Affirmation ist eine performative Kritik, die den möglichen Kippmoment von blindem ­Konformismus, von...
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