Fragment from last night’s dream
We met again in the street where we last met. Neither of us could remember how long it had been. It was night again. You had aged a lot and I was a little younger than I had been. In…
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Keep your mind
Keep your mind in Hull and despair not. Prolapsarian, 2014
Eulogy for Ulrike Meinhof by Klaus Wagenbach – New Translation
This is a rough and ready, and perhaps too literal, translation of Wagenbach’s eulogy for Meinhof, which I don’t think has appeared before in English. It’s not particularly pretty, nor such an important text, but I thought I’d put it…
Thinking Need in California: The 1942 Seminars of the Frankfurt School and the Brecht Circle (Quotations in English)
Paper given at ‘Um Abschied geht es ja nun… Exil und Kein Ende’ July 2014, at Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Thinking Need in California: The 1942 Seminars of the Frankfurt School and the Brecht Circle (Quotations in German)
Paper given at ‘Um Abschied geht es ja nun… Exil und Kein Ende’ July 2014, at Department of Communication and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Birkbeck to end 24 hour building access
I got into university today to discover a sign in the library saying that Birkbeck College (one of the big universities that makes up the University of London) is no-longer going to be running its site 24 hours a day.…
Elbow-communism: a late night thought
I remember that during fourteen years of school someone would occasionally say, “did you know that it’s impossible to lick your own elbow?” This would normally result in everyone spending a few minutes trying to lick their own elbows. It…
Communist Fairy Tale: The Boy who wanted to Fight with a Dragon
Berta Lask, 1921, trans. Jack Zipes A boy and a girl walked together on a country road. They were carrying books and pencils in their knapsacks and heading toward school. Along the way the boy said, “We have our history…
Horkheimer’s Attack on Sohn-Rethel – A Translation
IntroductionIn a letter to Adorno, sent on 8 December 1936, Horkheimer mounted an attack on Sohn-Rethel, with whom Adorno had suggested collaborating. This argument is perhaps the most important and extensive critical early statement on Sohn-Rethel’s work and to my…
Job Interview (with a destructive character)
I have an interview this afternoon for teaching work in my department. I am considering turning up and answering all of the questions with quotations from Walter Benjamin’s The Destructive Character. I imagine it will go something like this: Are…