Six Notes on Reading ‘The Destructive Character’ in Palestine
Conference paper at Walter Benjamin in Palestine: On the Place and Non-Place of Radical Thought, December 2015, International Art Academy of Palestine and Birzeit University.
Jacob Bard-Rosenberg
A letter against bombing Syria
I don’t normally write to my MP but today I made an exception. This is what I said: Dear Ms Harman, As one whose hands are so blood-soaked already I can only imagine that you face the prospect of another…
Adorno’s Dream: Interpretation After Auschwitz
Lecture at Marxism in Culture Seminar, November 2015, University of London.
Angelic Satire: Marx on Movement and Benjamin on Standstill
Paper given at Historical Materialism Conference, November 2015, University of London.
For SOAS
Some students meet a picket line and scream at us “why are you stopping us getting an education?” as though education is a thing within the university that we prevented them getting to. And how you get to it doesn’t…
Space Invaders
Shouldn’t Space Invaders have been called “Earth Invaders”?
Uromi (a new Adorno translation)
This is a translation of a miscellaneous late fragment published in Volume 20 of the Gesammelte Schriften. If you spot any errors please let me know. I read the word “Uromi” in a death announcement for a very elderly lady.…
Bats
Make bats by putting rats in cocoons!
Corbyn, communists, and social media (a dialectical commentary)
My newsfeeds are full of communists and anarchists who think it’s of great significance that Jeremy Corbyn has opinions different to theirs. A dialectical commentary: 1) if when faced with opinion you respond with opinion, as though the two were…
Conversation at Tesco
Camberwell Green, yesterday. She: Do we get extra pay for working bank holidays? He: yes, but only if it’s on you’re normal shift patterns. You get time and a half. Or you can take a day off. But if you…