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Empty Diagonal
Empty Diagonal

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Antoine d’Agata

Diagonale du vide

“If there is an artist capable of making these vacuums speak, it is d’Agata. To show what is not visible, to make present what can not be represented. There is a visual 'spectralism' about Antoine. It is about recording the spasms of humanity that is committing suicide, which has access to all the information needed to know what it is doing, and yet does nothing to revert the trend. We documented this suicide during a week of shared driving, of...
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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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Hinter einem Gemälde in der Antike steckt immer ein Buch
Hinter einem Gemälde in der Antike steckt immer ein Buch

Pascal Quignard

Die römische Malerei

Wie kann man ein antikes Gemälde entschlüsseln? Aristoteles erklärt in seiner Poetik, dass die Tragödie aus drei verschiedenen Bausteinen besteht: der Erzählung, dem Charakter, dem Ziel ­(mythos, ethos, telos). Absicht der Malerei ist es zu zeigen, wie eine Situation den Charakter offenbart. Es handelt sich darum, den mythos, den das Fresko erzählt, und das ethos der Hauptperson im Augenblick des telos oder kurz vor dem telos zusammenfallen zu lassen. Die beste Ethik ist entweder eine Folge des Handelns: Troja in...
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