“A first name is a talisman. It is the memory of the path traveled by all the others before oneself. That they endured so much pain before us lightens our own suffering. Therefore, yes, I affirm it: the well-named child is saved forever.” - a text accompanying Rayan Yasmineh’s art in our Reader 6
“It was always an illusion that publicly funded culture in Germany had nothing to do with ‘state culture’ (and, by extension, ‘reason of state’). Today, the lines of conflict between a liberal and an authoritarian understanding of cultural policy are plain to see.”
“I often ask myself whether all the cities of the earth, gathered in their civility and grace, could erase what my eyes have witnessed. I smile often. I offer careful English, rounded and polite. I watch faces shift when I say that I am Palestinian. That I am from Gaza.”
«Einen echten Kontrast bildeten derweil die Wortmeldungen englischsprachiger Linker, denen der deutsche Philosoph eine blasse Erinnerung auf Seminarplänen schien – war Habermas nicht auch in der Hitlerjugend gewesen und lag bei Gaza arg daneben?» – Nachlese zum Tod des großen Denkers der BRD.
If Péter Magyar’s Tisza party unseats Viktor Orbán after sixteen years of popularly legitimized autocratic rule, it will end a regime that has steadily narrowed democratic life in Hungary. The route out of Orbánism, however, comes at the cost of diminishing all non-right-wing political options.
«Tod dem Schah» riefen in den 60ern Iraner:innen, die gegen die Diktatur ankämpften. Nach dem Januar-Massaker der islamischen Regierung an Protestierenden und mitten im US-israelischen Luftkrieg wünschen viele Exilierte sich den Schah zurück. Wie konnte die iranische Diaspora so nach rechts driften?