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Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri

Fascist Cultural Co-optation: A Curious Example(0)

January 25, 2023

With a few strokes of the pen, you can turn your cultural heritage into supporting your fascist agenda.

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Get Ready for a Bicycle Tour of Los Santos

If there were a standard protocol for this that works with any game, I’d buy a smart home trainer this instant.

Iron Dome

This Was Not a Good Week

Germania est omnis divisa in partes tres.

Video Games in der radikalisierten Gesellschaft

A Few Words on the Politics of Combating Extremism in Germany

There are three intrinsically distinct challenges for combating extremism in online media, and Germany is probably going to drop the ball on all three of them.

HRC

Basically, There Are Two Kinds of Hillary Haters

Welcome to the Paranoid Circle of Delusions and the Deplorable Steam Train.

Reddit Goodness: Realistic Company Slogans

“You’ve got questions? We’ve got blank stares.”

A Band of Brothers and Sisters

“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”

“Meanwhile, in Space”

Unloading supplies onto the International Space Station.

Resolutions / Vorsätze

Für das Jahrzehnt. Nichts für Zaghafte. / For the Decade. Not for the faint-of-heart.

Das Vierte

Transparenzgesetz: Große Mehrheit im Parlament für »Staats-Bierdeckelreform«

Apropos GEZ, GEMA, LSR, Telekommunikationsgesetz, Hartz etc. etc.

Where @astefanowitsch Gets It Right (Again), or: The Logic of Dominant Discourse

The discourse about power within every discourse about gender is moved squarely into the dominant discourse’s blind spot by the latter’s own operational logic.

Going Into Politics? You Might Want to Rethink that Undead Dreadlord of Yours

Except, of course, you’re on a Pirate ticket: then it’s not only okay, but expected.

What If

“It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”

Uploading Your Brain “The Winter Market”-Style? Not soonish!

PZ Myers is the wet towel in our echo chambers of grandiose ideas.

By 2179, Humans Still Haven’t Encountered a Species They Can’t Turn Into Coats, Shoes, or Handbags

From Alexander McQueen’s fashion collection “Plato’s Atlantis.”

Christian Wulff, Politik und Pressefreiheit: Deutschland und seine Traditionen

Es scheint, als gebe es unter Politikern einen argumentativen Trend bei der Rechtfertigung von Angriffen auf die Pressefreiheit, der sich linguistisch beschreiben und kodifizieren ließe.

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Book-Cut Storytelling: Carved Landscapes

“Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS.”