R.I.P. Peter Watkins, who among other things arguably made the greatest 'biopic' ever and the greatest 'political' film ever A true radical and visionary if ever there was one in the cinema

food for thought

It‘s still three years until the next national election, the Nazis are leading several polls, and you’ve got fascists in the middle of Berlin acting like this. Good luck, Germany, if you’re trying to attract a sufficient number of non-white migrants to boost your economy. Good luck: you’ll need it.

long shot perhaps, but if anyone happens to have a spare ticket for the sold-out Xiu Xiu show in Prague, sell it to me ppleeeeaaase 🙏🙏🙏

Germany’s Hand in Sudan’s War www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

long shot perhaps, but if anyone happens to have a spare ticket for the sold-out Xiu Xiu show in Prague, sell it to me ppleeeeaaase 🙏🙏🙏

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truth bombs 💣 hyperallergic.com/1050197/what...

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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called it 🤷 #NobelPrize

Was ich dazu noch sagen will. Hamza Kurtovic wurde in Hanau von einem rassistischen Terroristen ermordet. Ich traf seinen Vater ein paar Wochen nach dem 7.Okt 2023, als sich die dt. Politik überschlug, von allen Muslimen Distanzierungen vom Terrorismus (Hamas) zu verlangen/2

2 years into the full-scale, live-streamed Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Germany's support is still unwavering. Why? Weren't they de-nazified after ww2? Didn't they 'learn from their history'? No they didn't. This is the subject of my new video essay: https://youtu.be/DrxKR3UjJwk

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

Which genocidal racist is set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature this year?

That's the narrative they tell themselves but it falls apart pretty quickly Merkel: "Germany’s special historical responsibility for Israel’s security [...] is part of my country’s Staatsräson" Scholz: "Israel’s security is part of Germany’s raison d’état"

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Pynchon's Balkans

Pynchon's Balkans

Wait for the sudden change at the end, his roots vs. his wings:

Werner Herzog at Oktoberfest

you vs the guy she told you not to worry about

you vs the guy she told you not to worry about

Germany is fully committed to the genocide.

Exclusive: In early August, Germany announced a freeze on weapons exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza. But in the weeks since, hundreds of shipments bound to the Israeli F-35 fighter jet airbase have been shipped through Cologne. By @yossibartal.bsky.social thediasporist.de/the-bomb-on-...

Die "German Redemption Theology" (@a-d-n.bsky.social) muss unter allen Umständen erhalten bleiben, sonst funktioniert die Schuldabwehr nicht mehr. Ich schätze, sie werden es auf "ein paar extrem rechte Akteure" schieben und den Rest weiterhin als alles prima ansehen.

Performatively reading Schattenfroh in German

Love this.

Adorno & Horkheimer on the stupidity of cleverness

"Scholars for Truth about Genocide" sounds exactly like crackpot denialism of the Bosnian genocide sounded like.

I have polemicized that Habermas' life project was to cannibalize and aryanize the legacy of radical German Jewish thought. It's time to reclaim Adorno! blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

On Habeck ... "Much- lauded as ‘the speech of the year’ in the German public, he threatened ‘Muslims living here’ that ‘they must clearly distance themselves from antisemitism so as not to undermine their own right to tolerance’."

"In a new study of Habermas, he is quoted as saying that, at present, everything to which he dedicated his life is being lost ‘step by step’. He himself is leading the way for this loss.The story of Habermas is the story of ...

Have a look into the German abyss:

Regrettably, things are unfolding just as I predicted, if not worse.

I don’t know if you saw it Elia, but Adnan wrote this near a year ago, and it’s growing even more relevant day by day unfortunately 🫠 bsky.app/profile/a-d-...

Dating in Germany 😶 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I'm impressed by Tsangari's latest film, Harvest, a folk horror fable about the Highland Clearances, primitive accumulation in 18C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Marx actually talks about this in Das Kapital) Anyway, what's perhaps most remarkable is how they turned the pointless practice of filmmaking into something useful:

I'm impressed by Tsangari's latest film, Harvest, a folk horror fable about the Highland Clearances, primitive accumulation in 18C 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Marx actually talks about this in Das Kapital) Anyway, what's perhaps most remarkable is how they turned the pointless practice of filmmaking into something useful:

I remember this German professor getting upset about calling what happened in Bosnia a 'genocide'. You are only allowed to call it 'war crimes'

ha ha ha

Only in Germany