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  1. I started working on an essay called "Three fundamental disagreements with the tradition", re Marxism. the three are fetishism, barbarism, cannibalism. More personal than theoretical, or sort of in-between.

    So last night i got to reading the anthropology book from which Marx took the concept of fetishism for his famous commodity fetishism, Du cultes des dieux fétiches (1760) by Charles de Brosses, which is about black spirituality in West Africa. Wow, no surprises but it is a steaming pile of racist, white supremacist, colonialist trash... Such "anthropology" is inseparable from European slave traders in Africa, who coined the term, and their perspectives on Black spirituality and the Black societies they were dismantling through human pillage and trade. The irony is that that pillage plays a major role in the development of the wealth that will in Marx's time make the commodity-form so dominant in Europe's commercial centres. Understanding such a transition should be mandatory for any historical materialist...

    #writing #books #marx #fetishism #colonialism

  2. The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

    "As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

    Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

    #taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

  3. The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

    "As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

    Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

    #taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

  4. The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

    "As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

    Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

    #taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

  5. The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

    "As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

    Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

  6. The German state has bound its own re-birth into the “realm of civilized nations” through a particular protective relationship with the figure of the Jew, where (always Jewish) Israelis are a prime embodiment of Jewish life.

    "As long as the figure of the Jew remains a medium through which German post-unification identity is articulated and experienced, the performance of Jewish collective difference and political agency will be exclusively relegated to the State of Israel. The figure of the Palestinian, as well as Palestinians’ political subjecthood and demands for equality will, in turn, be addressed as either an annoyance to be ignored or a threat to be criminalized—rather than as a crucial prism through which the multiple layers of legitimatized moral violence in Germany have to be recognized."

    Hannah Tzuberi & Nahed Samour in 2022: contendingmodernities.nd.edu/t

    #taboo #fetishism #sacred #holly #Germany #guilt #philoSemitism #conflation #confusion #antisemitism #guilt #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael

  7. I will observe, but not comment further, on the ironic juxtaposition of #WalterBenjamin's name being right next to a private bank (any bank for that matter). That said, I was very happy to see #Benjamin's name several times while I had the good fortune to be in #Paris. Not only this street sign but in the #Museum of #Decorative #Arts, which had an exhibition about the birth of the #departmentstore, his words about #fetishism & the #flaneur were present.

    #Flaneuse
    #WalterBenjamin
    #LeBonMarche

  8. I will observe, but not comment further, on the ironic juxtaposition of #WalterBenjamin's name being right next to a private bank (any bank for that matter). That said, I was very happy to see #Benjamin's name several times while I had the good fortune to be in #Paris. Not only this street sign but in the #Museum of #Decorative #Arts, his words about #fetishism and the #flaneur were present.

    #Flaneuse
    #WalterBenjamin