Tobias Flessenkemper
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The century of camps, published in 2000, analysed the crimes of the 20th century. It is up to everyone alive today to make sure that the remainder
of the 21st century will be spared of such horrors.
of the 21st century will be spared of such horrors.
March 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The century of camps, published in 2000, analysed the crimes of the 20th century. It is up to everyone alive today to make sure that the remainder
of the 21st century will be spared of such horrors.
of the 21st century will be spared of such horrors.
@bundestag.de mit viel Gespür für gute Metaphern und republikanische Werte #fdgo
March 3, 2025 at 11:20 PM
@bundestag.de mit viel Gespür für gute Metaphern und republikanische Werte #fdgo
February 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
A sad tale of three ageing 20th century powers led by 70+ men trying to create an autocratic, anarchic, anachronistic & life-on-Earth-destroying entropy. People in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe & Oceania move away from the abyss of the imperial geriatric fight club & build a rules-based World.
February 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A sad tale of three ageing 20th century powers led by 70+ men trying to create an autocratic, anarchic, anachronistic & life-on-Earth-destroying entropy. People in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe & Oceania move away from the abyss of the imperial geriatric fight club & build a rules-based World.
How are they showing that the pursuit of peace based upon justice and international co-operation is
vital for the preservation of human society and civilisation? Today’s attack, orchestrated from Moscow using assets in Washington, unveils the dark convergence which anyone who wanted could have seen.
vital for the preservation of human society and civilisation? Today’s attack, orchestrated from Moscow using assets in Washington, unveils the dark convergence which anyone who wanted could have seen.
February 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
How are they showing that the pursuit of peace based upon justice and international co-operation is
vital for the preservation of human society and civilisation? Today’s attack, orchestrated from Moscow using assets in Washington, unveils the dark convergence which anyone who wanted could have seen.
vital for the preservation of human society and civilisation? Today’s attack, orchestrated from Moscow using assets in Washington, unveils the dark convergence which anyone who wanted could have seen.
From détente to system convergence of crime: Levinson dixit 1978 archive.org/details/vodk...
February 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
From détente to system convergence of crime: Levinson dixit 1978 archive.org/details/vodk...
Just read Eberhard Stammler’s (1915-2004) Verschwörung für die Demokratie (1966) “Denn das national-konservativ orientierte Bürgertum, daß durch seine innere Emigration die erste Republik verraten hat, ist im Begriff, auch gegenüber der zweiten zu versagen.“
February 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just read Eberhard Stammler’s (1915-2004) Verschwörung für die Demokratie (1966) “Denn das national-konservativ orientierte Bürgertum, daß durch seine innere Emigration die erste Republik verraten hat, ist im Begriff, auch gegenüber der zweiten zu versagen.“
Just read Fedor Vergins (DOB unknown) Das Unbewusste Europa (1931). A rather weird mix of arguments and pseudo-theoritic speculations, not free from the misogynic, racist and technocratic prejudices of the time. Yet, it contains some intriguing observations of Europe’s predicament.
February 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just read Fedor Vergins (DOB unknown) Das Unbewusste Europa (1931). A rather weird mix of arguments and pseudo-theoritic speculations, not free from the misogynic, racist and technocratic prejudices of the time. Yet, it contains some intriguing observations of Europe’s predicament.
Just read Richard Hughes’ (1900-1976) The Human Predicament (volume one): The Fox in the Attic (1961) “Hitler existed alone. […] The universe contained no other persons than him, only things; and thus for him the whole gamut of the ‘personal’ pronouns lacked wholly its normal emotional content.”
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just read Richard Hughes’ (1900-1976) The Human Predicament (volume one): The Fox in the Attic (1961) “Hitler existed alone. […] The universe contained no other persons than him, only things; and thus for him the whole gamut of the ‘personal’ pronouns lacked wholly its normal emotional content.”
The long 20th century
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
The long 20th century
Just read Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom (2024) Just read Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom (2024) “How does freedom figure in our lives? The connections between freedom as a principle and freedom as a practice are the five forms of freedom. The forms create a world where people act on the basis of values.”
January 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just read Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom (2024) Just read Timothy Snyder’s On Freedom (2024) “How does freedom figure in our lives? The connections between freedom as a principle and freedom as a practice are the five forms of freedom. The forms create a world where people act on the basis of values.”
Just read Gregor Hasler’s Der Berset-Code. Die Resiliez-Strategien von #AlainBerset (2024) "Nur das Negative sehen ist belastend. Das ist auch historisch belegt: In den meisten Fallen war Optimismus in der Geschichte der Menschheit die richtige und realistische Haltung.“
December 1, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Just read Gregor Hasler’s Der Berset-Code. Die Resiliez-Strategien von #AlainBerset (2024) "Nur das Negative sehen ist belastend. Das ist auch historisch belegt: In den meisten Fallen war Optimismus in der Geschichte der Menschheit die richtige und realistische Haltung.“
Just (re-)read F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby (1926) "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
November 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Just (re-)read F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s (1896-1940) The Great Gatsby (1926) "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Just read Simon Mundy’s Making it Home. Europe and the Politics of Culture (1997) “Nationalism is still the most powerful force in European political psychology and a version of it underpins all the structures which have been put together to supersede it.”
November 24, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Just read Simon Mundy’s Making it Home. Europe and the Politics of Culture (1997) “Nationalism is still the most powerful force in European political psychology and a version of it underpins all the structures which have been put together to supersede it.”
Just read Elias Canetti‘s (1905-1994) Die gespaltene Zukunft (1972). „Das Kommende ist anders da als je zuvor, es nähert sich rascher und es wird bewußt herbeigeführt. ... Die Wirklichkeit des Kommenden hat sich gespalten: auf der einen Seite die Vernichtung, auf der anderen das gute Leben.“
November 19, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Just read Elias Canetti‘s (1905-1994) Die gespaltene Zukunft (1972). „Das Kommende ist anders da als je zuvor, es nähert sich rascher und es wird bewußt herbeigeführt. ... Die Wirklichkeit des Kommenden hat sich gespalten: auf der einen Seite die Vernichtung, auf der anderen das gute Leben.“
Just read Eugene S. Schwartz’s (1917-?) Overskill (1971): "The computers and system analysis can “answer a fool according to his folly.” … they cannot deal with the qualitative and creative aspects of human & social life which must be called upon to re-create the present and fashion the future."
August 24, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Just read Eugene S. Schwartz’s (1917-?) Overskill (1971): "The computers and system analysis can “answer a fool according to his folly.” … they cannot deal with the qualitative and creative aspects of human & social life which must be called upon to re-create the present and fashion the future."
Just read Benno Gammerl‘s #Queer Eine deutsche Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis heute(2023):Die Geschichte fügt sich keinem übersichtlichen Handlungsbogen,dem zufolge die Stigmatisierung von der Emanzipation überwunden wurde&alles in Normalisierung mündete. Stattdessen:weder Ende noch ein glückliches"
December 7, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Just read Benno Gammerl‘s #Queer Eine deutsche Geschichte vom Kaiserreich bis heute(2023):Die Geschichte fügt sich keinem übersichtlichen Handlungsbogen,dem zufolge die Stigmatisierung von der Emanzipation überwunden wurde&alles in Normalisierung mündete. Stattdessen:weder Ende noch ein glückliches"
Just read Henry Farrell‘s&Abraham Newman‘s Underground Empire (2023): As Europe started mapping a possible route to a new world economy. That economy would not be a utopia, any more than Europe itself, with its bureaucracy, unacknowledged colonial legacies,& sundry nationalized cruelties is a utopia
December 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Just read Henry Farrell‘s&Abraham Newman‘s Underground Empire (2023): As Europe started mapping a possible route to a new world economy. That economy would not be a utopia, any more than Europe itself, with its bureaucracy, unacknowledged colonial legacies,& sundry nationalized cruelties is a utopia
Just read Sumathi Ramaswany‘s Worlding India. (2022): Empire of Geography‘s earth-writing is shown up for what it is - a fragile, all-too-human achievement which may be indispensable, but is nevertheless inadequate in face of other memories and other imperatives of being and belonging in our planet
December 2, 2023 at 11:49 AM
Just read Sumathi Ramaswany‘s Worlding India. (2022): Empire of Geography‘s earth-writing is shown up for what it is - a fragile, all-too-human achievement which may be indispensable, but is nevertheless inadequate in face of other memories and other imperatives of being and belonging in our planet