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Robert Heinze
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Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History

hist. of media & infrastructure

Oskar Negt-pilled

Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.

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Goldstein: You mention October 7. You’re a major figure in the field of postcolonial studies, an area that’s loomed large and been controversial the past few years. A consistent criticism of the field is that it perpetuates simplistic binaries — oppressor/oppressed, colonizer/colonized — especially when applied to Israel and Palestine. Mamdani: There’s something in that critique. But it fails to understand the strength of the postcolonial field, which is that the claim to independence should not be taken at its word. A lot of the colonial legacy survived formal colonialism. And a lot of the field is about the institutional and the ideological carriers of that survival. Earlier writers who focused on decolonization looked at how control of the economy did not really change with political independence. Then came a different group who wrote about political institutions and how the modes of governance didn’t change. They remained as they had been designed during the colonial period. And these scholars became interested in the university. The university claimed to be a global institution, a universal institution, an institution that stood for excellence. The first big debate which emerged in the African university after independence was a debate at the University of Dar es Salaam about excellence counterposed to relevance. Relevance is not universal in its claims. It’s particular, place specific, time specific. The single-minded pursuit of excellence can give rise to a World Bank/IMF-type cookie-cutter logic. Relevance gives rise to debates about the nature of the society you’re living in, its historicity. To return to postcolonialism, the critique was right insofar as it maintained that the more it became binary, the more postcolonialism “degenerated” into formulaic thinking. The middle ground got blurred.
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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A graphic from Bloomberg news showing how AI, Chips and Data Center companies circle around money between them, a closed circle turning around on itself to artificially prop up AI The painting „Roi d‘Hommes“ by Laetitia Ky: five black men stand around in a half circle, their comically long penises tied together in a knot in the Center
November 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Lol ich bin der linksextremste Deutsche, @zeit.de stehe gerne zum Interview als Bürgerschreck bereit
Der wirklich sau dummer Politische Kompass der Zeit zeigt an, dass 100% der Antwortenden rechts von mir stehen
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Is this any good?
A PowerPoint slide titled „Citizen and Subject: a colonial boomerang?“ showing portraits of Zohran (left) and Mahmood (right) Mamdani with the following quotes above their heads. Zohran: „So much of what is so difficult for many in this moment is the feeling that they are merely subjects. This is a movement to change that." Mahmood (from his book Citizen and Subject, page 48): „[I]t is not possible to understand the nature of colonial power simply by focusing on the partial and exclusionary character of civil society. It requires, rather, coming to grips with the specific nature of power through which the population of subjects excluded from civil society was actually ruled. [It] was incorporated into-and not excluded from—the arena of colonial power.“
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Poland not beating the allegations
Bonkers church in Wilanów, Warsaw, its a mass of concrete, columns arranged in a half circle with massive bars of concrete over the „Portico“ and a huge cupola. It’s facade is completely illuminated in bright purple while the cross on the cupola shines yellow. It’s massive and kitschy and still threatening
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I love that even in a cyberpunk dystopia it’s still just normal to have a small radio sitting around that you listen to for news and music
Loading screen in Cyberpunk 2077 shows a couch table with magazines and assorted drinks strewn over it. In the middle of the table is a red compact radio with a slightly futuristic design but entirely ordinary, with a loudspeaker on the left part and a knob, a display and some blue lines on the right.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Man kann das zu schwach finden, und ich bin der allererste, der bestimmte rhetorische Figuren in diesen Meldungen kritisiert, aber ich finde hier ausnahmsweise mal nicht, dass es der Zeit etwas besonderes vorzuwerfen gibt
Der von Kremlchef Wladimir Putin befohlene Krieg gegen die Ukraine hat die Sicherheitsarchitektur in ganz Europa untergraben. Bei den Bemühungen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Kriegs ist eine Frage, wie das Land vor möglichen neuen Angriffen Russlands geschützt werden kann. Europa und Russland setzen auf Rüstung Aber auch die europäische Sicherheit muss neu geordnet werden. Derzeit gehen die Militärplaner in Nato und EU davon aus, dass auf lange Sicht verstärkte Aufrüstung nötig ist, um Moskau von Aggressionen abzuschrecken. Russland rüstet in einem Maße auf, das nach Einschätzung vieler Experten über den Verschleiß im Ukraine-Krieg hinausgeht. Nach eigenen Angaben fühlt Moskau sich wiederum von der Ausdehnung der Nato bedroht. © dpa-infocom, dpa:251028-930- 218022/1
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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"Luddites destroying machine looms", engraving published in Penny Magazine en 1844. The picture shows two men in 19th century working man's clothes: boots, shirts and vests, in a room in which large machine looms are set up in a long row. One man is swinging a big hammer at a loom, the other tries to screw something off.
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Das Interessante ist, wenn man den Text etwas gegen den Strich liest, kommt man darauf, was die alles für wirklich interessante Fragen hätten stellen können. Z.B. wie Leitungsebenen der ÖRR eigentlich Kompetenz in Kulturfragen konzeptionalisieren.
Aus dem Welt-Artikel: "Mischke ist unsicher. So schildert er es im Gespräch mit dieser Zeitung. Was hat er mit Kultur zu tun? Doch Thalmann soll versichert haben, man suche keinen Moderator im klassischen Sinne. Vielmehr sei Mischke doch ein „Kulturmensch“. Schließlich sei er unter anderem in einer ARD-Doku zum 100. Geburtstag Franz Kafkas zusammen mit Daniel Kehlmann und Rüdiger Safranski aufgetreten. So erinnert sich Mischke."
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Ok vielleicht sollte man mal in Ludwigsburg etwas Stunk machen?
Strassenschild der „Auguste-Supper-Strasse“ in Ludwigsburg
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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A portrait of Barbara Ehrenreich probably in her sixties with shoulder long, grey hair, armed dotted shawl and black shirt, looking into the camera in a „told you so@ way
October 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Paul Rudd in Anchorman (without the meme text)
October 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Exhibit B
The image features a caricature of a group of policemen. They have mustaches and are wearing (probably French) uniforms. The background is dark and textured. The title text at the top reads "WALTER BENJAMIN" and the text below it reads "POUR UNE CRITIQUE DE LA VIOLENCE". Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Gemma3:12b 🌱 Energy used: 0.365 Wh
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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French book design remains undefeated
A hand holding two books. On top is a black book cover with a black and white photograph of a woman holding a radio. The person is facing slightly to the left, with their head tilted and a faint smile on their face. They are wearing a dark, patterned sweater. In their left hand, they hold a vintage radio, with the dials and controls visible. The background is out of focus. The text "MARC BLOCH REFLEXIONS D'UN HISTORIEN SUR LES FAUSSES NOUVELLES DE LA GUERRE" is printed below on the right side of the image.
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Marc Bloch knew what’s up (Bonus Points for mentioning Lefebvres Grand Peur, recently subjected to the dumbest AI treatment in „Nature“)
From Jacques LeGoffs Preface to Marc Blochs „The Royal Touch“: „d'un historien sur les fausses nouvelles de guerre.' In it, he shows how censorship, by subjecting the written word to repressive scrutiny and thus discrediting it, "leads to a wonderful renewal of the oral tradition, the ancient mother of legends and myths". War thus offers historians an unexpected opportunity to observe the past Middle Ages directly, as it were: "With a bold stroke that even the most daring experimenter would never have dared to dream of, censorship has made the past centuries disappear and returned front-line soldiers to the means of information and the intellectual state of earlier times – the times before newspapers, before printed leaflets, before books." However, the scepticism that grips historians in the face of the spread of false news does not extend to "legal, economic or religious history" and even less to the history of collective psychology: "The deepest layer of history could very well be the most secure." That is why the miracle-working kings will delve into "deep" history. Daher rührt auch die Erklärung des königlichen Wunders, die Marc Bloch am Ende seines Werks bietet: Es handelt sich um eine gigantische Falsch-meldung", ein Ausdruck, den er 1932 wieder aufnehmen wird, um das Phänomen zu definieren, das Georges Lefebvre in einem anderen großen Buch der Mentalitätsgeschichte untersuchte: La Grande Peur de 1789."
October 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Colonel Klink shouting "I am not a secret Nazi!"
October 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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image from above, changed so it reads "ihatelife.com", "fuck shit up" and "Just make it stop"
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Vulgar Freudo-Marxism is where it’s at
Baudrillard (a greying, balding, round guy) with an open blue striped shirt blowing smoke through his nose and looking cockily at the camera
October 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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No. No he does not and ironically, the whole point of the "Great Man Theory" (and it always was decidedly a great *man* theory, no matter how often you mention the one woman who is your political hero) is to support figures like him.
An Article Header in the Financial Times: "Trump and the Return of the Great Man theory: The president vindicates an unfashionable view of how history works"
October 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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#Allegories
My view of the Bluesky Account of the US Department of Education. It is blocked by a moderation list called „right wing extremism“
October 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Das erwähnt Sandkühler ja sogar im Artikel, mit unnötiger antikommunistischer Spitze
Erst 1976 behauptete der DDR-Historiker Burchard Brentjes, Amo sei den Herzögen von Wolfenbüttel als Sklave zum Geschenk gemacht worden. Diese nur schwach belegte Behauptung dürfte Rücksichtnahmen des Verfassers auf das antiimperialistische Selbstverständnis der SED geschuldet sein, die er selbst zu erkennen gab. Denn an anderer Stelle seiner Biographie Amos - der bislang gründlichsten Arbeit zum Thema - wies Brentjes darauf hin, Amo sei möglicherweise Angehöriger der damaligen ghanaischen Elite gewesen und zur Absicherung eines Handelsgeschäfts mit der WIC nach Europa geschickt worden. Das war frühneuzeitlicher Usus. Man hinterlegte gewissermaßen die Person einer solchen Geisel als Pfand, um den Geschäftspartner von derlei
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Leelo from the film The Fifth Element (a shot of Milla Jovovichs face in cute orange bangs, white shirt and plastic orange straps on the shoulders, holding up one arm with a plastic card on which MULTI PASS is written in large blue letters). The Meme text says MULTICRISIS
October 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Enttäuschung im digitalen Zeitalter
Skeet des offiziellen Accounts der SPD: „Wir wollen, dass denjenigen geholfen wird, die in einer schwierigen Lage sind. Und wir lassen nicht zu, dass auf diesen Menschen herumgetrampelt wird. Gerade deshalb - für alle, die sich anstrengen und trotzdem Hilfe brauchen - machen wir auch diese Reform.“ Die Ratio unter dem Skeet: 1 Repost, 79 Zitate, 201 Antworten, 0 Likes
October 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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???
A Google search for the word „Singlette“ shows three pictures of a sort of baguette in various iterations and a fourth picture of a woman in some sort of figure-shaping lingerie
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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I mean
„The same operation applies to the workforce and the production process: the destruction of any purpose behind the content of production allows it to function as a code and enables monetary symbols, for example, to escape into indefinite speculation, detached from any reference to actual production or even to a gold standard. The fluctuation of currencies and signs, the fluctuation of 'needs' and purposes of production, the fluctuation of… …labour itself — the interchangeability of all these terms, accompanied by unlimited speculation and inflation (we are truly in a state of total freedom — disaffection, disengagement, general disenchantment: it is still a kind of magic, a kind of magical obligation that kept the sign chained to reality; capital has freed signs from this 'naivety' to deliver them to pure circulation).“
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM