1990
„
Überfließende Himmel verschwendeter Sterne
prachten über der Kümmernis. Statt in die Kissen,
weine hinauf. Hier, an dem weinenden schon,
an dem endenden Antlitz,
um sich greifend, beginnt der hin-
reißende Weltraum. Wer unterbricht,
wenn du dort hin drängst,
die Strömung? Keiner. Es sei denn,
dass du plötzlich ringst mit der gewaltigen Richtung
jener Gestirne nach dir. Atme.
Atme das Dunkel der Erde und wieder
aufschau! Wieder. Leicht und gesichtslos
lehnt sich von oben Tiefe dir an. Das gelöste
nachtenthaltne Gesicht giebt dem deinigen Raum.
“
Gedichte an die Nacht
R.M. Rilke
The Echo of Our Voices – Nick Brandt
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THE ECHO OF OUR VOICES is the fourth Chapter of The Day May Break. It was photographed in Jordan, which is considered the second most water-scarce country in the world. The photographs feature refugee families, who fled the war in Syria, now living in Jordan. Living lives of continuous displacement largely due to climate change, they are forced to move their homes up to several times a year in search of agricultural work, moving to wherever there has been sufficient rainfall to enable crops to grow.
The stacks of boxes that the families sit and stand together on aim skyward – a verticality implying more sense of strength or defiance – and provide pedestals for those that in our society are typically unseen and unheard
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The Echo of Our Voices
Incentivising War Crimes: The High Cost of International Humanitarianism – Thomas Wells
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But rebels have ways to push governments over the edge into the moral abyss, and a clear incentive to do so. They can set out deliberately to provoke such a moral breakdown by escalating their guerilla war tactics to the point where the domestic political pain for the government is so great that they will do almost anything to end it. Thus, after Hamas’ performatively brutal assault on Israeli civilians in October 2023, Netanyahu’s government threw out Israel’s usual restraints on the use of its overwhelming military force – and Hamas had achieved its goal. Positive international attention has flowed to Hamas by the mechanism of sympathy via antipathy, while Israel has lost international standing, connections, and alliances it spent decades building up. The deaths and maimings of Palestinian civilians are merely a means to an end, a price Hamas is willing to pay. The supply of angry young men to recruit from has never been higher.
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Incentivising War Crimes: The High Cost of International Humanitarianism
confronting the Golem – Michael Liss
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In 16th century Prague, so the legend goes, the sage Rabbi Judah Loew, Talmudist, philosopher, mystic, mathematician, and astronomer, searching desperately for a way to protect his community from violence, took a figure made of soil or clay, and, through sacred words, animated him. The product of his efforts, a Golem, served as an unflagging, inexhaustible bodyguard until, soulless and untethered as he was, he grew so powerful that he menaced the people he was charged to protect, and the Rabbi was forced to deanimate him.
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That “war” has many fronts and many tools, but, for this essay, we are going to have to talk about money. Money is not merely the lifeblood of politics; for those entities and organizations that rely on the government to provide support, it is essential to their existence. Trump’s withholding of cash from disfavored entities and organizations is one of the most effective weapons conservatives have ever had—with just the flash of a conscienceless pen, swift, brutal, and lethal.
The result? Mass firings at critical agencies, the termination of long-time programs that even Republicans used to praise as serving the country’s interests, and the zeroing out of agencies upon which the public relies. For those programs too big to kill in one shot, skeleton crews man centers with immensely long wait times designed to get people to hang up. With three-plus years left in his term to starve and pummel the rest, few if any will ever be resuscitated. Many Trump supporters are counting on this—I recall one office-mate who was convinced that DOGE had found so much “waste, fraud and abuse” that checks for $5,000.00 were about to arrive in every good Trump supporter’s mailbox. Have faith, and faith shall be given to you.
On Trump, I don’t and I can’t, but, if you do, you align with a great many Americans. We can argue about who the majority would choose, but the majority did choose in 2024, and what we have is a Republican President, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House. In a government where Congress eschews its traditional role in favor of deference, and SCOTUS supports a Unitary Executive, we may rage against the machine, but we have no way of turning it off. The Golem is out.
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september 30th
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Ich denke, vom Abschiednehmen von Träumen. Von der Einsicht, daß Sehnsucht auch eine Beschränkung der persönlichen Entwicklung sein kann. Wie Christian Rüping, der Regisseur es im Text formuliert: „Es war, was es war. Leben mit dem, was ist. Aushalten, daß nicht geworden ist, was nicht war.“ Man kann nicht immer seinen Träumen nachjagen. An einem gewissen Moment muß man erkennen: Es geht nicht. Es hat nicht stattgefunden. Und dann kommt die Trauer. Und danach hoffentlich der Trost!
So ist es jedenfalls an diesem wundervollen Theaterabend
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september 26th
sunflowers incl. – september 25th
september 23rd
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