A Positive Concept of Barbarism: Benjamin and the Consequences
Sami Khatib revisits Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis of the “poverty of experience“ and its corresponding plea for an impoverishment of doxa.
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Sami Khatib revisits Walter Benjamin’s diagnosis of the “poverty of experience“ and its corresponding plea for an impoverishment of doxa.
I THE DOMINANT TREND WITHIN the American avant-garde tradition has been the evolution of the subjective cinema. There is strong evidence of a shift in the late 1950s from the…
A new docudrama starring Tom Schilling revisits the life of Bertolt Brecht and how he became one of the most iconic playwrights of the 20th century. But in a #MeToo era, his style with women doesn't feel as noble.
(1898-1956) German, Marxist playwright. Brecht was anti-Aristotelian : He was critical of catharsis as a mode of response to drama, considering it count...