NB: A thought provoking essay – Telos was going in a Nazi direction ever since its leading lights became captivated by Carl Schmitt in the 1980’s. As to what makes self-styled radicals and democrats turn 180 degrees in their core values, haven’t we seen lots of it in India? How many Congress leaders joined the… Read More TELOS: A Journal’s Journey from Marcuse to MAGA
By Kate Manne Dr. Manne is a professor of philosophy at Cornell University. I keep thinking about an emoji posted in a group chat of more than 50 young men: a devil’s face (😈). And a text: “This is crazy work” — which I take to mean wild, out of bounds, outrageous. These and other… Read More Why do men in groups behave badly?
Roger Berkowitz Hannah Arendt’s homeland was populated with friends, most of them men—at least that is what her published correspondence would lead you to believe. The published letters between Arendt and her friends include books with Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Heinrich Blücher, Gershom Scholem, Kurt Blumenfeld, and Joachim Fest. The only woman whose correspondence with… Read More On Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy’s Decades-Long Friendship
It’s easier to blame brutes and sadists for extreme violence. But as we see in the documentary, modern genocides are fueled by people who are uncomfortably recognizable Omer Bartov Werner Best, a senior SS official and jurist who helped organize the Nazi death squads that murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews, is also known for… Read More How do human beings rationalize genocide? NAZA provides a chilling look
आर्यमान जैन और इरिना चीमा / Aryaman Jain and Irina Cheema देश में चल रहे युवा आंदोलन ने हम सब को शिक्षा और युवाओं के भविष्य पे सोचने को मजबूर कर दिया है। तत्कालीन मुद्दा NEET एग्ज़ाम में पेपर लीक का है लेकिन आंदोलन में दिख रही ऊर्जा बताती है की बात उस से ज़्यादा… Read More कॉकरोच के दौर में शिक्षा पर पुनर्विचार | Rethinking Education in the Year of the Cockroach
Philip Oltermann In a new book, German artist and writer Philipp Ruch argues that viewing the ascent of Hitler’s NSDAP through the prism of the Third Reich has distorted our understanding of fascism’s electoral breakthrough With your art collective Centre for Political Beauty you famously built a replica of the Holocaust memorial on a property… Read More ‘Hitler was a lazy criminal who slept in until noon’: why most of what we think we know about the rise of the Nazis is wrong
By Shoaib Ahmed Sayam / Global Southasia / sapannews.com This past June, an elderly man was found stranded in no-man’s land on the Bangladesh-India border. For 24 hours, he and his nationality were shoved from one flank to the other. In the sweltering heat, border officials of both countries kept grilling Shosti Chandra Barman —… Read More Who defines where home is? Confronting Partition trauma
It’s not just screen time: the problem with children’s media is that it has become relentlessly hectic, loud and bright Natalia Kucirkova Iam at the airport gate waiting to depart, watching passengers hurry past with rolling suitcases and paper cups of coffee. A small boy sits very still beside his mother. He holds an iPad… Read More The bombarding of childhood
Amar Kanwar’s film installations at London’s Serpentine North gallery Martin Robinson Amar Kanwar, The Peacock’s Graveyard, 2023. (Film still) Digital video installation, 7 screens, dimensions variable, 28 mins, 16 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. This is a transcendent show full of revelations, the kind of show that could change your life… Read More Amar Kanwar: This exhibition will change your life, if you let it
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed Stephanie Convery Sometimes books tell you more than the content,” says Tim White, as he lines up carefully dust-jacketed books and pamphlets in plastic sleeves on temporary shelves in Melbourne University’s Wilson Hall. He’s… Read More Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
