Ege Çoban Enflasyonun para politikalarından mı kaynaklandığı yoksa tedarik zincirlerindeki aksamalardan mı ortaya çıktığı, ekonomi disiplinindeki önemli tartışmalardan biridir. Mattick Jr., bu soruya Marksist politik-ekonomi eleştirisinin perspektifinden yeni bir okuma ile yaklaşıyor. Tedarik zincirleri temelli açıklamaya daha sıcak baksa da, ona göre günümüz enflasyonunu anlamak için ihtiyaç duyduğumuz şey üretim biçiminin bütününde gerçekleşen tarihsel d...| Terrabayt
A selection from Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940.[Incomplete] A Klee painting named Angelus Novus [editors note: see below] shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
"To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Walter Benjamin. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin died while fleeing the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is a monumental ruin, meticulously constructed over the course of thirteen years—“the theater,” as| Madness and Civilization, Cosmos and History: An Anthology
The connections and similarities between Bloch and Benjamin are still, I think, under-appreciated — reflecting the wider lack of interest in Bloch’s work. The two were contemporaries, knew one another and had a deep appreciation for one another’s work and methods. Just on the surface there are some interesting polarities — Bloch, the exegete; loquacious, … Continue reading Now Time and the Not Yet→| thelitcritguy
Listening, as Mladen Dolar suggests, ‘is “always-already” incipient obedience; the moment one listens one has already started to obey’. The form this obedience takes is inherently spatial but this…| The Place of Longing