The End of Staatsräson:

Für die @fr-zeitung.bsky.social habe ich dieses Mal über das Ende der Staatsräson geschrieben: www.fr.de/zukunft/stor...

Balkan film of the year incoming inreviewonline.com/2026/05/26/t...

Euroslop supremacy thefilmstage.com/cristian-mun...

Eastern Europeans with dreadlocks...if you know you know artreview.com/why-olga-tok...

I'm going to the Deerhoof gig in Prague tonight. Who up?

How fucked is the German art world? "Anduril the Trump-aligned AI defense company has entered the gallery"-fucked

“…these Germans demonize migrants as both inferior and threatening in a racist tradition stretching back to the colonial era, linking past and present in a manner that makes one wonder whether they have learned anything from their history.” @dirkmoses.bsky.social in thediasporist.de/education-ag...

"This hostility to universal citizenship is, I submit, the main characteristic of fascism. And the rejection of even a tempered universalism is what we now see repeated under democratic circumstances" (G.M. Tamás, 2000)

I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o...

It gives me no pleasure to say that I've been completely vindicated on this. Where are the haters now? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Da hänge ich noch diesen Text dran: criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu..., der m.E. gut erklärt, wie die "Vergangenheitsbewältigung" zu einem neuen Gründungsmyhtos wird, was dann auch das oben angesprochene "wir" konstruiert.

A Nazi lover and former Monsanto lobbyist who dutifully did his part to dismantle Bosnia on behalf of the West and Greater Croatia; now likely to be succeeded by someone doing the same for the West and Greater Serbia.

A Nazi lover and former Monsanto lobbyist who dutifully did his part to dismantle Bosnia on behalf of the West and Greater Croatia; now likely to be succeeded by someone doing the same for the West and Greater Serbia.

The making of Michael Olise, football's quiet genius Ahead of tonight’s semi final second leg, I spoke to Olise’s former school teachers, coaches and teammates about his rise to the top, why he was let go by #CFC + #MCFC and what makes him so special www.nytimes.com/athletic/725...

"Millions of people around the world came to invest their faith in the American dream; the dissolution of this ardently imagined homeland leaves a great part of humanity spiritually and ethically adrift." www.equator.org/articles/gho...

The coming global food crisis archive.ph/NZVsk

omg archive.ph/pHiCz

An irony of history: Viktor Orban used to admire G. M. Tamas and even named his only son after him - the person who went on to become Orban's most vocal critic www.spiegel.de/politik/ausl...

Good riddance, sucker

"Hormuz has made the end of American hegemony imaginable" www.equator.org/articles/the...

Thomas Bernhard in the original German... which I am sure most anglo Bernhardians have read

R.I.P. Jürgen Habermas. My intellectual obituary from 2024: criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

Ok, last one from me: “Džeko and Tito after the Fall of Italy”

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the logistics of shipping oil and the economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz substack.com/@turbulencep...

Die Macht der Gefühle [The Power of Emotion] by Alexander Kluge (1983) youtu.be/ToosY-53zB4?...

Alexander Kluge and Khavn (2024)

Has anyone else ever dared to challenge Benjamin's interpretation of Angelus Novus? open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Ein Film beginnt dort, wo jemand nicht mehr schweigt. Der Regisseur Jean-Pierre Bekolo erinnert sich an ein Treffen mit Alexander Kluge.

Alexander Kluge's dctp is an incredible archive. Here's an interview with Wang Bing from 2002 about West of the Tracks (German dub, unfortunately) www.dctp.tv/filme/10-vor...

All feelings believe in a happy ending (Alexander Kluge)

How to make it to 94: walkability

Listen here, Sebaldheads archive.ph/kMb5m

Alexander Kluge (1932–2026): Nachrufe, Standpunkte und Reflexionen. Eine Artikelsammlung serdargunes.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/a...

Alexander Kluge und Theodor W. Adorno während Adornos Selbstporträt 1963.

The Thinker

„Es ist ein Irrtum, dass die Toten tot sind“: Alexander Kluge, dessen Tod heute gemeldet wird, als er vor 30 Jahren die Trauerrede für Heiner Müller hält — RIP youtube.com/watch?v=OOl1...

Alexander Kluge (1932-2026)…

RIP Alexander Kluge. Sein wahrscheinlich größtes Projekt war die ambitionierte TV-Plattform dctp. Auf der Webseite kann man viele der Sendungen streamen, neben thematischen Programmen auch Gespräche mit Künstlern wie Laurie Anderson, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog und Christoph Schlingensief.

posted that for the anglophones so here's one for the germanophones

rip kluge

Re: Steinmeier on international law -- there is a narrow window in which German establishment types muster the courage and decency to publicly declare basic sensible things and that is in the months prior to retirement.

*eternal scream*

Am I losing my mind