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The Dance of All Things
The Dance of All Things

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...

Movements of Air

It would be futile to resist the feeling that the marvelous curls of smoke, photographed by Étienne-Jules Marey between 1899 and 1901, first elicit from us. We have the impression of witnessing a pure beauty in the process of making, unmaking, and remaking itself incessantly before our eyes. It is a supreme flow—images of flow and a flow of images all at once—from which approximately fifty instants have been randomly “drawn,” all formed differently and likewise admirable. Such simple beauty...
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Konstruktionen der Zeit
Konstruktionen der Zeit

Marcus Quent

Gegenwartskunst

Wer die Zeit auf ein Maß oder eine einzige Zählung reduziert, wird niemals einen Sinn für die Gegenwart der Kunst entwickeln können. Er überantwortet das, was er Gegenwartskunst nennt, vorab einem bloßen Nichts, über dessen Wiederholungen und Variationen die Geschichte wacht. Die Kraft eines Denkens der Zeit erweist sich immer daran, ob es fähig ist, die Spaltung der Gegenwart zu denken und davon ausgehend eine Konstruktion der Zeit zu entwickeln. Diese Spaltung muss so unversöhnlich vollzogen sein, dass sie der...
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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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