„Worte sind wie Muscheln, in denen das Rauschen des Meeres der Geschichte gefangen ist; wer sie ans Ohr hält, hört weit mehr als nur den Begriff – er hört das Echo ungezählter Epochen.“
Walter Benjamin (*1892 - †1940)
#Etymologie #WalterBenjamin #Sprachwissenschaft #Kulturgeschichte

on the idea that promising species extinction is promoting greater investment in #AI, cf. #WalterBenjamin: “mankind… is now one for itself. Its self‑alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as aesthetic pleasure of the first order”": nay, financial value add.

If conversation is going to be more than just speaking in turns, it must make room for silence, to absorb meaning and reflect on it, even when that conversation is one-sided and internal to our minds. #Humanism #Philosophy #WalterBenjamin #HumanismChurch

O capital em crise e o futuro em disputa.
- bsoplvr
https://outraspalavras.net/crise-civilizatoria/o-capital-em-crise-e-o-futuro-em-disputa/
#CriseCivilizatria #Capa #Capitalismo #Crescimentobrasileiro #Crisefinanceira #Economiapoltica #Extremadireita #Produodariqueza #WalterBenjamin

이 생각을 나누며 함께 떠올린 글들 / Texts that came up in our conversation:

Walter Benjamin: Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen
Franz Kafka: Ein Bericht für eine Akademie

#WalterBenjamin #FranzKafka

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee-grounds cannot be a true philosophy.

- #WalterBenjamin

"İnsanlar kurtulmadıkça, ezilenler ezenlerden intikam almadıkça, kültür de bir barbarlık belgesi olmaktan kurtulamayacaktır."
#WalterBenjamin

Alman filozof, edebiyat eleştirmeni, kültür tarihçisinin aramızdan ayrılışının 86. yılında saygıyla..

Whilst with a group of #Jewish #refugees on #ThisDayInHistory in 1940, philosopher & social critic #WalterBenjamin killed himself. He was in #Francoist Spain with a visa for travel to the United States, but the #fascist government in Madrid decided to send him back to the #Nazis.

Literarischer #26September

„Die Maske des Erwachsenen heißt 'Erfahrung'."

#WalterBenjamin #GesammelteSchriften Tod 1940

"It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us."

✒ #WalterBenjamin passed away #OTD 26 September 1940, tragically taking his own life while fleeing the Wehrmacht. #Art #Culture #Philosophy

(20/30) ... ami Adorno et de lui expliquer la situation où je me suis vu placé. Il ne me reste pas assez de temps pour écrire toutes ces lettres que j'eusse voulu écrire."
- #WalterBenjamin

- Corse : #JeanNicoli mobilisé dans le Génie -> armistice : participe à la formation des 1ers groupes de […]