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Zur Praxis Harun Farockis
Zur Praxis Harun Farockis

Volker Pantenburg

Einfachheit ohne Vereinfachung

Berlin, Kantstraße 12a, Delphi Filmpalast, Februar 1982. Harun Farocki und Ronny Tanner haben einen Tisch und einen Stuhl im Foyer des Kinos aufgebaut. Ein Schild informiert: »Harun Farocki rührt die Werbetrommel für seinen Film Etwas wird sichtbar und somit an den Schlaf der Welt.« Der Raum ist gut gefüllt, Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer bilden einen weitläufigen Kreis um die improvisierte Bühne. »Kommen Sie etwas näher«, fordert Farocki das Publikum auf, »wir bevorzugen die leisen Töne. Treten Sie etwas näher, bitte. – Meine...
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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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The Dance of All Things
The Dance of All Things

Georges Didi-Huberman, Laurent Mannoni, ...

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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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