Anamnesis and remembrance reiterate the centrality of memory. Collective forgetfulness as sign of the times?
April 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Anamnesis and remembrance reiterate the centrality of memory. Collective forgetfulness as sign of the times?
Prophets, Peripatetics, even Perelman, have one thing in common: walking!
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Prophets, Peripatetics, even Perelman, have one thing in common: walking!
“[…]since you know as well as we do the right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
Why international law has mainly Roman, rather than Greek, geneaology.
Why international law has mainly Roman, rather than Greek, geneaology.
March 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“[…]since you know as well as we do the right, as the world goes, is only in question between equal power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
Why international law has mainly Roman, rather than Greek, geneaology.
Why international law has mainly Roman, rather than Greek, geneaology.
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” TLP, 6.4311.
Wittgenstein’s Ibn al-Waqt.
Wittgenstein’s Ibn al-Waqt.
February 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.” TLP, 6.4311.
Wittgenstein’s Ibn al-Waqt.
Wittgenstein’s Ibn al-Waqt.
“And that’s the gist of his plan: to effect in 2025 a decisive anti-Nixon Shock — a global shock that cancels out the work of his predecessor by terminating the Bretton Woods system in 1971 which spearheaded the era of financialisation.”
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Donald Trump's economic masterplan
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February 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
“And that’s the gist of his plan: to effect in 2025 a decisive anti-Nixon Shock — a global shock that cancels out the work of his predecessor by terminating the Bretton Woods system in 1971 which spearheaded the era of financialisation.”
unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
unherd.com/2025/02/why-...
View of the Tigris (1934), by the late-Ottoman trained Iraqi painter Abdulqadir al-Rassam (d. 1952). A seemingly ordinary landscape painting, yet gray skies forming, anticipating a gloomy future to come. Will the Tigris wash it anew? Incoming climate drought affirms otherwise.
February 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
View of the Tigris (1934), by the late-Ottoman trained Iraqi painter Abdulqadir al-Rassam (d. 1952). A seemingly ordinary landscape painting, yet gray skies forming, anticipating a gloomy future to come. Will the Tigris wash it anew? Incoming climate drought affirms otherwise.
