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The farmers' movement, of the people, by the people, and for the people, may also have a few lessons in political wisdom for floundering opposition parties.
Featured in Wu Tsang’s Renewal of the Collective Two new films by the artist and her cohorts, on view at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, speak to joint struggles and why collaboration is key In the second volume of his Prison Notebooks (1926), Italian communist Antonio Gramsci suggests that critical consciousness stems from the understanding that one’s identity is shaped by historical processes ‘which [have] deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.’ The notion of an infinitely mutable mosaic of identities that we carry with ourselve...
Last week’s storming of the Capitol building was feral, not peaceable and, thus, not Constitutionally protected.
Abstract The article sheds light on Walter Benjamin’s and Antonio Gramsci’s treatments of elitist traditions. It provides a historical contextualization and brief comparison of the theoretical and political developments of the two contemporaries under this aspect. In the Origin of the German Trauerspiel (1924/25), Benjamin’s historical-philosophical aesthetics are enriched by a history of concepts which increasingly takes up socio-historical aspects. This approach goes beyond Benjamin’s programmatic formulations at the beginning of the 1920s, in which he regarded the work of art as a ...
Abstract This article compares the philosophies of history of Antonio Gramsci and Walter Benjamin and chooses a specific approach since the topic of “history” is an overarching meta-theme for both thinkers: After a general introduction, the category “Past and Present” developed by Gramsci in the Prison Notebooks is juxtaposed with Benjamin’s “Concept of History”. With one eye on the biographical experience, the “ensemble of the social relations” (Marx) inscribed in the human being is included and related to the historical process and, not least, to questions of historiograph...