Re: Germany's geopolitics

2023-03-07 Thread Pit Schultz
[Entering a more reactive mode, knitting in some threads, which means more dodging, deadening, indecision. 5 pg tl;dr. Ymmv.] Close until Opened Confessions of Dialogical Aporia on the War in Ukraine A) To distance oneself from the war in Ukraine as it unfolds, while focusing on the risks of i

Re: Germany's geopolitics

2023-02-28 Thread Pit Schultz
Tentative Annihilationism As written before, the main global conflict today is between the US and China, and the bridging role of Europe, and within the "dynamo" of Germany and France, would be to take a more decisive stance towards China (and thus towards the BRICS and the Global South), of cours

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-15 Thread Pit Schultz
Black Soil It is probably a matter of thinking the hows and whys synthetically, along a "golden path", dependent on an unlikely but still highly desirable outcome, not without invoking a disappearing horizon of timeliness. Rather than giving up in the face of apparent complexity, the interconne

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-14 Thread Pit Schultz
here are two texts i found recently quite useful, for the missing footnotes. maurizio lazzarato known to many from his thesis on "immaterial labour", has written about the financial war machine, debt, violence and the urgency of revolution and published this text last june, translated by a taiwane

Re: Stormy weather?

2023-02-13 Thread Pit Schultz
- proxy vs. direct. this is most likely not a war in a series of others, but probably a new type of war that has the potential to recalibrate the world order by risking to lead to another world war. it has elements of colonial wars but implicitly sets the engagement of geopolitics (geographic dete

flash back

2022-03-20 Thread Pit Schultz
hi nettimers, really sorry for making you feel cluster-mailbombed in these stressful times. some of the earlier versions of my posting obviously didnt get through, so i assumed they're not in the queue with noone hand-editing raw mail spools like we did in ancient times. take care /p ps. btw, ma

Re: What is Eurasianism?

2022-03-19 Thread Pit Schultz
re: eurasianism „Poor Schmitt: The Nazis said blood and soil — he understood soil. The Nazis meant blood’’ 1) As important it is to stay up to date with "contrarian" world views, such as Thiel, Dugin, Land, Galkovsky - instead of cancelling and banning them from the reading lists, whatever is lef

Fwd: What is Eurasianism?

2022-03-19 Thread Pit Schultz
re: eurasianism ‘Poor Schmitt: The Nazis said blood and soil — he understood soil. The Nazis meant blood’’ 1) As important to stay up to date with "contrarian" world views, such as Thiel, Dugin, Land, instead of canceling and banning them from the reading lists, whatever is left of the left woul

Re: What is Eurasianism?

2022-03-19 Thread Pit Schultz
re: eurasianism ‘Poor Schmitt: The Nazis said blood and soil — he understood soil. The Nazis meant blood’’ 1) As important to stay up to date with "contrarian" world views, such as Thiel, Dugin, Land, instead of canceling and banning them from the reading lists, whatever is left of the left woul

Re: What is Eurasianism?

2022-03-16 Thread Pit Schultz
re: eurasianism „Poor Schmitt: The Nazis said blood and soil — he understood soil. The Nazis meant blood’’ 1) As important it is to stay up to date with "contrarian" world views, such as Thiel, Dugin, Land, Galkovsky - instead of cancelling and banning them from the reading lists, whatever is lef

Towards a Non-facebook

2018-05-24 Thread Pit Schultz
Towards a Non-facebook a pretext The current facebook debate is a chance to get your act together and get organized - just a little. What does it mean to get dis-, re- or co-organized? To the worse, or to the better? A further 'balkanisation', a migration to the cryptoanarchist waste of resource

Re: Locating ArtScience

2017-12-15 Thread Pit Schultz
just wanted to mention two recent works, which can function as a comment regarding the disciplinarity, relevance and reach of the works deriving from the exploitation of the intersections of art and science. 1) the cigar shaped asteroid which took a strange trajectory recently. based of radioscop

Re: Armin Medosch (1962-2017)

2017-02-24 Thread Pit Schultz
actually i avoid obituaries and funerals. they are more about the people who stay than the people who go. and they are about status and memory. how many people will show up, how many people will give a speech. damn it. in this case, i have to write, expecting that Armin Medosch would have done the

Re: notes from the DIEM25 launch

2016-02-13 Thread Pit Schultz
so here i are my 2cents.. after a while. take it a duty free molotov cocktail without the lighter. yes, i listened to the stream, there were a few public and private screenings, for a lower entry cost. and indeed my expectations must have been too high, even if this volksbuehne event format succes