Caspar Shaller
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Caspar Shaller
@casparshaller.bsky.social
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naively utopian & realistically apocalyptic journalist & historian Berlin & London Politics & Culture write @DIEZEIT @Wochenzeitung @jacobin @derfreitag @taz etc
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Private consumption in Germany has been hammered.
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The most frightening thing happening today is that 42 million people, including 16 million children, will be losing access to food assistance from the US government.
Actual letterboxed review of After the Hun
Me after getting back from London
I do wonder tho how long the German rich will continue to increase their wealth when the floor drops out from under the economy after decades of austerity that destroyed physical and human infrastructure
German elites' incomes however on a absolute tear - while real incomes for the rest of the population are down, public infrastructure falling apart abs country's economic base is going up in smoke. Good to know that the last 30 years of disastrous policies have been good for someone
On the one hand: Interesting just how long post-imperial Britain could cling on to its relative economic position. On the other hand: Yikes.

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Comments on articles about Mamdani in the liberal press are always just *chef's kiss*
This is truly trash coverage. He's running to be the mayor of New York City. This obsession with a country 7 timezones and thousands of miles away is deranged.
How very apt for this faux intellectual movie that a key hint in Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt is the German phrase "Wolff schreien", which literally means "cry wolf" - which is not actually a German expression
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wie viel tee muss man trinken um erkältung abzuwehren frage für einen freund der am wochenende was vor hat
that's obviously not what the article proposes, but its important to note that the design of institutions alone does not ensure democracic oversight, what's really needed is a strong political movement outside the institutions to keep them working for the people
There are even supervising councils that are supposed to represent civil society, but in reality its the big political parties and the Protestand and Catholic state churches that get the most seats
The German public broadcasting system is purposefully decentralized into regional stations that are legally seperate companies to avoid concentrating power in one spot and ensure diversity, but strangely enough they all end up sounding the same anyway
public media sounds great in theory, but these models should really study the pitfalls of European public broadcasting, services that are state funded (sometimes indirectly) and are supposed to be independent, but usually just act as a mouthpiece of the political elite
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I wrote for @theguardian.com on Jared Kushner‘s many financial conflicts emerging from his work on Trump‘s Gaza plan | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Diese Bücher erwähnen all den eigentlichen Kern der Meinungfreiheit nicht: Es ist ein Abwehrrecht gegenüber des Staates, nicht gegen Kritik von anderen. Es soll Bürger und Journalisten davor schützen ins Gefängnis zu kommen, staatliche Repression interessiert diese Cottage Industry aber nicht
Wie viele solche Bücher braucht es noch, bis die Meinungsfreiheit gerettet und der Markt gesättigt ist?
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„Die formulierten Thesen würden auf der Vorannahme basieren, dass in einem ‚muslimischen Kulturkreis‘ antisemitische Einstellungen ‚per se gegeben‘ seien.“ — Dafür gibt’s dann halt knapp neun Mil. Euro Förderung vom Forschungsministerium an Ahmad Mansour @correctiv.org
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Trotz Kritik: Forschungsministerium fördert umstrittenes Projekt gegen Antisemitismus
Forschungsministerium fördert Antisemitismus-Projekt unter Ahmad Mansour – internen Zweifel an Wissenschaftlichkeit zu Trotz.
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"Das übereinstimmende Fazit der vom Ministerium beauftragten Experten: Das Projekt sei „aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht förderungswürdig“.

Trotzdem erhält das Institut 9 Millionen Euro. Das lasse ich mal so stehen.
Von so detaillierter Auseinandersetzung wie die London Review of Books mit Mbembe betreibt kann man in Deutschland nur träumen, nicht mal als er gecancelt wurde hat sich jemand die Mühe gemacht
Kevin Okoth's long essay on Achille Mbembe is careful, testing and informative.
‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Achille Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’

Kevin Okoth on the political theorist: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I remember as a young child walking in a London park with my mother when an androgynous person with a shaved head and tattooed arms jogged past us. ‘Why do they need to make it so obvious?’ my mother said. I didn’t understand what she meant at the time, but I do now."
A tattoo can function in many ways: as a message for all to see or as a discreet code recognisable only to those who know its meaning.It can be an act of defiance as well as solidarity....