“Hannah Arendt employed this memorable phrase in both the subtitle and closing words of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, her book on the trial of Nazi lieutenant-colonel Adolf Eichmann. To Arendt’s mind, Eichmann willingly did his part to organize the Holocaust — and an instrumental part it was — out of neither anti-semitism nor pure malice, but out of a non-ideological, entirely more prosaic combination of careerism and obedience. Readers have argued ever since its publication about this characterization, and those with a special interest in how Arendt arrived there can find in the New Yorker‘s online archives the original series of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” articles out of which the book grew.”>full text
(c) OPEN CULTURE, 2013
Archive for August, 2013
Guided Tour to a City’s Corruption
Posted in Uncategorized with tags corruption, Czech Republic, guided tour, Prague, tourism on 14 August 2013 by delclem
“While the Prague Castle, above, is a must-see for visitors, a bus tour of a variety of city sites known for corruption has been a growing tourist attraction, according to the tour operators.” >full text (c) NYT, 2013; photo (c) Mlan Bures, IHT
Street Art in Vienna
Posted in Uncategorized with tags art, Austria, exhibition, Roa, street art, Vienna on 10 August 2013 by delclem
Following its traces in streets & galleries >full text (and more pics)
(c) wieninternational.at 2013
‘The Fragmentary, Mystical Thought of W.B.’
Posted in Uncategorized with tags film, flaneur, France, Germany, Holocaust, literary theory, Spain, Walter Benjamin on 1 August 2013 by delclem“The 1993 experimental film above—One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin—is part documentary, part low-budget cable-access editing exercise. The film provides an introduction to Benjamin’s life and thought through interviews with scholars, re-enactments of his last days, and montages centered around his many aphoristic expressions.” >full text (c) open culture 2013
>another film: Flâneur III: Benjamin’s Shadow (1998)
delirium clemens 