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ANTHROPOLOGICAL MATERIALISM

Tagged: Philosophy of Language

Anthropological Materialism / Experience / Materialist Theology

Schweigen, Streiken, Vergessen. Mit Walter Benjamin für eine Dialektik der Aktivierung durch Passivierung

“Die grössten Ereignisse – das sind nicht unsre lautesten, sondern unsre stillsten Stunden.” – Friedrich Nietzsche “durch Passivsein zu siegen. Durch Erleiden Macht zu bekommen.” – Bertolt Brecht   Als man Kierkegaard 1843 den Zug zeigte, der ihn nach Berlin...

Anthropological Materialism / Art/Technique / Ideology

Technique as a Pure Means. On Walter Benjamin’s non-instrumental concept of technique between his early metaphysical and later anthropological materialist writings

In this paper I will outline a central aspect of Walter Benjamin’s concept of technique throughout his work, namely its non-instrumental character. In order to do this, I will look at a shift that occured in Benjamin’s thinking around the...