Renaissance life writing by Felix Platter, his father Thomas, and his half-brother Thomas
I almost skipped Catherine Nicholson's review of "Beloved Son Felix: Coming of Age in the Renaissance", but the picture was a painting of Felix Platter (1536-1614)—and I live 500 meters from Felix Platter-Spital. The reviewed book is a translation of part of a memoir the influential pathologist and ophthalmologist
Thin Skin
“If I’m thin,” said skin,“it’s because I have been cut.”The hands, who wanted nothingand were incapable of choice, didn’t feelresponsible. Earsweren’t
Still Life, Hilton Head
No, not a logon the bank that risesfrom the lagoon— an alligator!Just one shade brownerthan the pristine golf-course greenof this lawn-mown,laundered
Umberto Eco trent’anni dopo: le 14 spie del fascismo e il dispotismo del presente
di Gianni Giovannelli* Rileggendo “Eternal Fascism” di Umberto Eco dopo che sono trascorsi trent’anni …in modo che le cose presenti ci offendono, le future ci minacciano; et così nella morte …
Rileggendo Eternal Fascism di Umberto Eco dopo che sono trascorsi trent'anni - di Gianni Giovannelli - Effimera
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Presidential Library and Museum
The fountain stammers and falls,motion-activated, playing to the crowd.The tourists are already lined up,disgorged from the buses, on their cells.Nearby,
Coyotes
Last night I woke to the moonlit field striped with zigzag bars of shadow like a destroyer’s flanks, althoughit was a hunchback scream that called,
Bash Bish Falls | Aaron Poochigian
a poem
#Fascism isn't a new phenomenon but is has a #history and understanding it is necessary for #prevention & #resistance.
There is an often overlooked work by #italian #writer, #philosopher & #antifascist #UmbertoEco
First published 1995 in the #NewYorkReviewOfBooks http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/
There was no #gamification that time
There is a #wikipedia article on it & many opportunities to find it in different languages
#Antifa #antifascism #authoritarianism #dictatorship #resistance #philosophy
Ur-Fascism
I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.
The Divinity Within
a poem
Andrew Shields
Oss. Repressione - Rss Bot
Effimera - Rss Bot
Katika Kühnreich