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This! October 20195 min read

[A monthly link list of recommended articles, videos, podcasts, photos, tweets … you name it]

an image or two from my Tumblr
an image or two from my Tumblr
an image or two from my Tumblr


[Videos]

Trouble 22: Crossing The Line

Greta Thunberg – How Dare You?

Baby Barn Owl hears thunder


[Music]

Thom Yorke – Last I Heard (…He Was Circling The Drain)

Negativland – Destroying Anything

Double Dee & Steinksi – Nothing to Fear [bandcamp: shortcode must include 'track', 'album', or 'video' param] – “Steinski’s legendary 2003 mix originally aired on Coldcut’s Solid Steel BBC radio show, newly remastered in 2019.”

Double Dee & Steinski – Lesson 4 [djfood] – “Over 30 years in the making, ‘Lesson 4′ by the original cut and paste duo Double Dee & Steinski, is finally coming to vinyl.” Listen to it here.


[Podcasts]

Fighting Fascism, Rejecting Liberalism: A Conservation with Natasha Lennard [igd] – “In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with radical journalist, writer, and teacher, Natasha Lennard, author of the new book from Verso Press, Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life. The book contains essays on both the personal and the political, while also covering social movements and struggles from Black Lives Matter, to Standing Rock, the J20, antifascism, and beyond.”

World on a Wire feat. Naomi Klein – “[Chapo Trap House is] joined by author Naomi Klein to discuss climate change, a green new deal and what it must include, and new developments in responses to ecological crisis from both the right and the left.”


[Articles English]

Global Protests Round-Up: Authoritarian Adaptation, Data Gathering, and the Role of Class [naked capitalism] – “In this post, I’ll first look at the scale of current protests, because there are rather a lot of them, so many that you would think this story deserves more coverage than it is getting. Next, I’ll look at protests from three academic perspectives: Non-Violence (Chenoweth), Data Gathering (Fisher, Andrews, Caren, Chenoweth, Heaney, Leung, Perkins, and Pressman), and Class (Dahlum, Knutsen, and Wig).”

No, Extinction Rebels, nonviolence is not the only way [roar] – “XR have achieved a lot, but as we pause after rebellion week, how do we deal with the ahistorical narratives and dodgy research pushed by the leadership?”

On Class and Climate Struggle: Decolonising XR [freedom news] – “How can XR use its resources in genuine solidarity? How do we shift from being an overwhelmingly white and middle-class movement to centring those who have been excluded?”

What is Zizek for? [currentaffairs] – “The celebrated “leftist” “philosopher” is a racist and reactionary whose intellectual product is worthless. The Left should have nothing to do with him.”

Jeremy Hammond Issues Statement Explaining Why He is Resisting the EDVA Grand Jury [freejeremy.net] – “Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.”

Extinction Rebellion Has a Politics Problem [current affairs] – “I do not think it is possible to find an apolitical solution to a political problem. More to the point, I do not believe that our current economic system is compatible with continued life on this planet. It is unrealistic and irresponsible to pretend that a proposed climate solution which keeps capitalism intact is any kind of solution at all. Put another way: There is no true green politics that is not a left politics.”

Shrinking glaciers: Mont Blanc [the guardian] – “A century after Walter Mittelholzer’s famous aerial mission, scientists repeat his journey to shed light on the impact of global heating”

Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions [the guardian] – “New data shows how fossil fuel companies have driven climate crisis despite industry knowing dangers”


[Articles German/French]

Carolin Emcke über die Formel “politisch korrekt” [süddeutsche] – “Politisch korrekt” ist das Morsezeichen der Denkfaulen, mit dem sich reflexhaft alles abwehren lässt, was eingeübte Überzeugungen oder Habitus infrage stellen könnte.”

Gefährlicher Konformismus [gdg] – “Der polnische Künstler Artur Żmijewski hat 2005 das berühmte Stanford-Prison-Experiment “überprüft”. Bei ihm werden die Gefängniswärter nicht zu Sadisten, sondern beenden die Versuchsanordnung. Was sagt das künstlerische Experiment über den Zusammenhang von Konformität und Macht aus?”

Simon Reynolds: Früher war mehr los im Club [zeit] – “Elektronische Musik zieht ins Museum, will plötzlich Kunst sein? Das beklagt der Popkritiker Simon Reynolds in seinem beachteten “Conceptronica”-Aufsatz. Total daneben.”

Kritik an Nobelpreis für Peter Handke: Kunst dient den Nackten [taz] – “Man kann nicht Künstler der Gepanzerten und Bewaffneten sein; Kunst gilt ausschließlich den Nackten. Darum bin ich Schriftsteller. Aber ich komme nicht von Homer, Cervantes oder Tolstoi. Ich komme aus Bosnien.”

Interview zu Online-Extremismus: „Wir müssen das als internationalen Terrorismus begreifen“ [netzpolitik.org] – “Das ist die Reduktion eines komplexen Themas. Ja, ein Teil der Szene ist rechtsradikal und gewaltbereit, auch die Identitäre Bewegung ist auf Gaming-Plattformen wie Steam vertreten. Aber die Leute werden nicht rechtsradikal, weil sie Gamer sind. Das sind gesellschaftlich isolierte Menschen, wie auch der Täter von Halle. Die entwickeln einen großen Eskapismus und Games können so eine Flucht aus dem Alltag bieten. Jetzt aber nur über Gaming zu reden, ist absoluter Quatsch. Wir müssen über rechtsradikale Ideologien sprechen und die verschiedenen Orte, an denen sie stattfinden.”


[Older articles, still great]

Patti Smith – People Have The Power

Die Route wird neu berechnet [soziopolis] – “Zweitens darf noch einmal daran erinnert werden, dass Bewegungen wie Black Lives Matter oder nicht auf die absolute Festschreibung bestimmter Identitäten zielen, sondern Bürger mobilisieren wollen, um elementare Rechte einzufordern.[11] Mobilisieren kann man aber nur, wenn man zunächst öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit auf gemeinsame Leidenserfahrungen lenkt. Und das geht wohl kaum, ohne im ersten Schritt auf die Identität, die einem (oft abwertend) zugeschrieben worden ist, Bezug zu nehmen.”


R.I.P.

Gott (Karel)
Ginger Baker
Elijah Cummings


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