Que video de leitura e discussão maravilhoso esse do João Carvalho com o Alexandre Linck!
Como sou lerdo, assisti pela terceira vez.

"POR QUE A GENTE NÃO CONSEGUE MAIS TRANSMITIR NADA?"
https://youtu.be/r2dfYVIUdas

#quadrinhosnasargeta #assimdisseojoao #historia #sociologia #filosofia #walterbenjamin

https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-will-take-on-joe-rogan-for-podcaster-supremacy-2000744221

“For decades now, Americans have been told that we should trust the system, but our children are sicker, chronic disease is exploding, and the answers that we’ve been given aren’t working,” Kennedy says in the teaser video. “Many of us have come to the conclusion that government actually lies to us.”

The video strikes an incredibly dark and conspiratorial tone, more in line with outsiders who complain about the system than someone now deeply entrenched with it. The whole thing comes off as very weird, given the fact that Kennedy isn’t resigning his position as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. He’s just adding “podcaster” to his list of duties.

#MAGA #rfk #fascism #walterBenjamin #aesthetics #USPol #classwar #spectacle #situationist

"It is the tradition of the oppressed in which the working class enters the stage as the final enslaved, avenging and liberating class... For both are nourished by the true image of enslaved ancestors rather than by the ideal image of liberated descendants. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution this awareness was still alive. The motto “no glory for the victor, no sympathy for the defeated” is so poignant because it expresses solidarity with the dead brothers rather than with future generations" - Walter Benjamin

https://kolektiva.media/w/u8tJSLGeBs9xBYGh7hdZEb

#anarchism #WalterBenjamin #RudolfRocker

I have for a while been a bit bummed that I would never get to see Angelus Novus in person. As a child I lived right next to the Israel Museum and went frequently, but of course I didn't know about @WalterBenjamin. And now there is no way am I setting foot in Israel again—barring some fundamental, and sadly increasingly unlikely, changes. And now this! Well, I guess at least I don't have to be tempted to go visit the U.S.?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/arts/paul-klee-angelus-novus-israel.html

#WalterBenjamin

The life and works of #WalterBenjamin can open up new spaces to think through #history and #concepts to inform the contemporary moment.

📷 Walter Benjamin Memorial, #Portbou
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Benjamin_Memorial_Portbou_003.jpg

"In his #novel #AFoolsKabbalah, #SteveStern #writes in a manic whirl of disturbing and hilarious images as he follows the great historian of #Jewish #mysticism #GershomScholem on his journey to gather up the remains of a vanished civilization."

"Steve #Stern’s new novel, A Fool’s #Kabbalah, is a #comedy about #tragedy and a tragedy about comedy. It is a #mystical #fable of real events and a realistic account of mysticism. There are Jewish #jokes and Jewish jokesters and #Nazis who torture and kill the jokesters. #Kafka, Kabbalah, #Zionism, and the #shtetl of #Zyldzce (pronounced, perhaps, as “zilch”); #WalterBenjamin, #HannahArendt, love for a #rabbi’s beautiful daughter, and an #occult midnight marriage to an unearthly albino girl in a white gauze dress; shit jokes, fart jokes, raw misery, deep #philosophy, brutal #history and brutal #fantasy, broken hearts and heartfelt joy—these exuberantly disparate topics are somehow, improbably, made to cohere."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/04/09/the-possibility-of-humor-fools-kabbalah-steve-stern/