tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20990868.post9077265919482066061..comments2024-01-29T10:50:15.619-08:00Comments on Modern Americans: Der Golem (1)rodney khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10515711262628729312noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20990868.post-53724850320948058662007-05-01T10:59:00.000-07:002007-05-01T10:59:00.000-07:00Bravo on the review...it really makes you out, as ...Bravo on the review...it really makes you out, as the author of Musee, and i must agree, to be a kind of historian of the future...or curator of the future...i don't know if you agree with all of this but to my reading of the book and of the review that you are working from an historical materialism as it exists in our sped up modernity. Thanks for the link!! <BR/><BR/>Section V of Theses on the Philosophy of History, by Walter Benjamin:<BR/><BR/>"The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. 'The truth will not run away from us': in the historical outlook of historicism these words of Gottfried Keller mark the exact point where historical materialism cuts through historicism. For every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to dissappear irretrievably. (The good tidings which the historian of the past brings with throbbing heart may be lost in a void the very moment he opens his mouth.)"Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02174339060679174703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20990868.post-30186478702655260822007-04-30T07:21:00.000-07:002007-04-30T07:21:00.000-07:00Quite a nice simpson's rip-off of this, transgress...Quite a nice simpson's rip-off of this, transgressing one or two pc boundaries: <BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_9k5Du9t5Q<BR/><BR/>Krusty: "The Golem: legendary defender of the Jewish people. Like Alan Dershowitz, but with a conscience."Nicholas Manninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12750291349639539140noreply@blogger.com