Samantha Hill: "Für #Arendt war die politische Emanzipation der Bourgeoisie der Grundstein des modernen Nationalstaates, in dem die politischen Gesetze von den privaten Interessen der Geschäftsleute bestimmt wurden, die es für nötig befunden hatten, den Staatsapparat zu übernehmen, um das Militär für ihre kolonialen Unternehmungen einzusetzen. Diese Kooptation der Nation und ihre Umwandlung in einen Nationalstaat durch private Wirtschaftsinteressen war der Kern ihres Verständnisses. Und was sie betonte - und wofür sie kritisiert wurde - war das Argument, dass der Antisemitismus vom Nationalstaat politisch benutzt wurde, um seine politischen und wirtschaftlichen Interessen zu fördern.
"Arendt hat dieses Argument nie aufgegeben. Tatsächlich griff sie es in ihrem umstrittensten Werk, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), wieder auf, in dem sie Ben-Gurion vorwarf, einen "Schauprozess" zu veranstalten, um das Leiden des jüdischen Volkes auszunutzen, anstatt den wirklichen Verbrecher, Hitlers Cheflogistiker Adolf Eichmann, für seine Verbrechen zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Natürlich sei Eichmann antisemitisch gewesen, aber sein Hass auf das jüdische Volk sei nicht sein Hauptmotiv gewesen. Vielmehr sei es seine banale Hybris gewesen, die ihn dazu gebracht habe, in den Reihen des Dritten Reiches aufzusteigen. Das sei die Banalität des Bösen, und sie definierte die Banalität des Bösen als die Unfähigkeit, sich die Welt aus der Perspektive eines anderen vorzustellen."
In 1944, #Arendt "stressed that the return of the governments in exile corresponded to a restoration of national structures[:] collective security, sphere of interest, national alliances - which had played a decisive role in preparing for the war and bringing it about. "There is nothing to expect from restoration", Arendt concludes, since it is also the restoration of what led to the Second World War and the "German problem".
Autistische Menschen sind hier stark vertreten.
Such mal nach #actuallyautistic
(Du kannst Hashtags hier auch folgen.)
Es gibt auch eine Gruppenverteiler @actuallyautistic an den du posten und dem du folgen kannst, wenn du willst.
Queere Leute (aller Flavours) gibt's auch, wobei ich wenig Einblick habe, wie lesbische zu finden sind. @iyalei, kannst du weiterhelfen?
I've watched the last two Indiana Jones movies today. Crystal Skull and Dial of Destiny. I enjoyed them both, even under the weather. Yes I am feeling poorly.
One of two possibilities. Either I have a cold, which coincidentally began about 12 hours after the RSV vaccine, or I am having side effects from said vaccine.
Honestly, even if it is from the vaccine, I'm still glad I got it. Vaccines are important, especially at my age. And, no, they don't cause #autism.
I've had intermittent low grade fever, fatigue, stuffy head, and occasional cough. The fatigue could be #fibromyalgia , but the rest is definitely not.
I'm treating with generic Alka Seltzer Cold and Flu. That and bed rest. No big plans for #NYE are being ruined. Not to worry.
🙏 for mentioning the biography by Frances A. Underhill, 'For Her Good Estate'. I edited the expanded 2nd edition. The booksite at https://barnes1.net/FHGE/ includes a resource page with many free downloads, & an account of the Lady's insistence on choral music at #ClareCollege. Book sales support this! the hardback more so.
Eignet sich das #Fediverse, um Leseempfehlungen (Bücher) zu erhalten, bzw. gezielt Ideen für neuen Lesestoff zu suchen? Die #Bookwyrm Instanzen sind ziemlich klein (kaum 100 user), würde sich das trotzdem lohnen, sich da zu registrieren? Oder reicht es vielleicht schon, auf Mastodon bestimmten Hashtags zu folgen? #lesen#buchbubble#Frage
👋 Hello, new followers! We stopped posting on our fairly active Twitter account more than a year ago and moved here. We're the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, both a university museum and the official state art museum. We celebrated our 75th birthday this year, and we have a collection of over 18,000 objects: American paintings, decorative arts, works on paper, much more. Mastodon feels like a good place for us given our academic and public focus. ❤️
A new study shows that vaccinated children are less likely than unvaccinated children to develop Long COVID. Please get your family boosted with the updated COVID vaccine!
The Mad Scholars Anthology Project is finally happening.
Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Nuerodiverse Academy
Edited by Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai, this book contains chapters by numerous Mad Academics, including myself.
Published by Syracuse University Press
"...one of the most timely, conscious, and robust contributions to the field of Mad Studies that I have yet to encounter. The world needs this book, and it needs it right now." - Syracuse Reviewer
My chapter is called "The Subject is Mad" and flits about through various vignettes of madness from Academia to childhood, and explores how madness informs practices of reading, writing, speaking, and percieving.
Of my own chapter, a reviewer wrote, "It’s beautiful; it also gestures toward a variety of Mad epistemological interventions while leaning heavily into Mad stylistics. I appreciate the way they emphasize Mad community and ancestry."
Contributors:
SAV SCHLAUDERAFF
SHAWNA GUENTHER
REBECCA ELI LONG
JESS L. WILCOX COWING
SYDNEY F. LEWIS
LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARSINHA
MELANIE JONES
CACHÉ OWENS
SARAH CAVAR
RUA WILLIAMS
KELAN KONING
LIZ MILLER
SAMUEL Z. SHELTON
PAU ABUSTAN
A-M MCMANAMAN
JESSE RICE-EVANS AND ANDRÉA STELLA
SARAH SMITH AND GRACE WEDLAKE
SARAH ARVEY TOV
KIMBERLY FERNANDES
DIANE R. WIENER
HOLLY PEARSON
SHAYDA KAFAI
@FractalEcho wow - the above future publication about neurodiversity in academia will be of interest to the @actuallyautistic and also the @actuallyadhd and other ND folks, I believe!
I saw this in Carole and Tuesday, they were the only “natural” songwriters left because computers wrote songs for everyone at that point. I don’t know if that’s a realistic take, but it’s depressing nonetheless. Why can’t we have computers do things that take joy from us instead of the things that bring us joy? You know, like cleaning up dumps or solving problems we would rather not think about? Why are they taking the arts away?
the first thing I do when I get a new phone is turn off audio and haptic feedback ... the scene where O'Brien is trying to move the space station made me realize that #StarTrek would be hell for me @actuallyautistic
Every time I come across a good resource on topics like critical thinking, media and science literacy, misinformation, analytic techniques, etc. I'll add them to this pinned list
First up: I randomly first came across this free course/reference from the University of Hong Kong well over a decade ago and have retaken it several times since and I can honestly say it has changed my life. Don't let the abstract stuff fool you. You'll be surprised how useful it can be: