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small leaps

“The concept of progress is to be founded in the idea of catastrophe. The catastrophe is that it goes on “like this”. It is not what is imminent in each case, but what is given in each case. Strindberg’s thought: hell is not something that is in store for us – but this life here. Salvation adheres to the small leap in the continuous catastrophe.”
(Walter Benjamin)

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Macdonna

Once upon a time, the Madonna saved the city from the plague, and a church was built in her honour. Then the Americans saved the country from the Germans, and McDonald’s made its way into Venice. (Donna Leon:Die Dunkle Stunde der Serenissima; Diogenes: 328)

Value of Money

While money remains a tool, making exchange possible and easier, it is also gaining independence, the ultimate transformation is the fetishisation: money is valued for the sake of itself, without having a genuine own, inherent money. A great many coins would have to be melted down to forge a frying pan from the metal; a…

living today

derweil es immer offensichtlicher ist, dass wir ueberall und immer wieder und von recht vielen menschen auf den arm genommen werden, ist es schoen, einmal in den arm genommen zu werden … auch wenn es sich dann herausstellt, dass man doch wieder nur auf den arm genommen wurde.