Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844)

Auf allen Kanälen: Zu nahe an der Realität

Die belgische Serie «The Best Immigrant» nimmt den rechtspopulistischen Remigrationsdiskurs ins Visier.

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via WOZ Die Wochenzeitung - Kultur / Wissen (author: Tobias Müller)

The Atlantic—no friend to anti-fascist movements—is reporting that ICE Truppenführer Greg Bovino is being demoted.

No politician or political party did this. It only occurred because of grassroots resistance and direct action.

ICE will keep kidnapping and murdering until we ourselves stop them. 🏴

https://crimethinc.com/responserevolution

In Bolivien hat die größte Massenmobilisierung seit Jahren die neue konservative Regierung dazu gezwungen, ihr neoliberales Reformpaket zurückzuziehen. Der Erfolg zeigt, dass die Arbeiterbewegung trotz der Wahlniederlage der MAS nicht geschlagen ist.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/bolivien-morales-mas-neoliberalismus-lateinamerika

comedygold https://www.telezueri.ch/zuerinews/svp-delegierte-schauen-skirennen-waehrend-marco-odermatt-vor-halbierungsinitiative-warnt-163181327

Ein paar Filme, die ich im letzten Jahr geschaut habe. Reviews below

Sinners
https://youtu.be/bKGxHflevuk

Mickey 17
https://youtu.be/osYpGSz_0i4

Bugonia
https://youtu.be/NPeBKrdLlSU

The Phoenician Scheme
https://youtu.be/GEuMnPl2WI4

The Brutalist
https://youtu.be/GdRXPAHIEW4

1. (Blood &) Sinners (1/2)
The vampire horror film by Black Panthers director Ryan Cogler, now nominated for 16 Oscars, is stylistically a mixture of From Dusk Till Dawn and Django Unchained. The black experience in the USA is central to the film. Not surprisingly, African-American (blues) music also plays a central role. In the 1930s, gangster twins Smoke & Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) open an African American bar in the southern states in a barn they bought from a Ku Klux Klan member. It feels like every single film critic has highlighted the two-minute choreography in this juke joint, which starts as a blues piece and ends in a fever dream with African tribal dances, a P-Funk guitarist, ballet dancers, and a DJ. A quick run-through of black music history. I found the scene where the main characters drive past a chain gang with a washed-up blues musician (Delroy Lindo) even more brilliant.

Sinners (2/2)
The drunkard is tempted to get out and confront the prison guards on horses, but is advised against it. The utter powerlessness of this moment and the African American trauma is then manifested in the actor's watery eyes and angry footsteps, which merge into a blues beat. The motif of the vampire film is a rich source of interpretation of the black experience in the USA. Self-mutilation, adaptation to the terrible majority society outside the barn, even cultural appropriation. To be honest, thinking about it was more fun than watching the film itself. Sinners samples too much from others, it's full of familiar set pieces, which is why this time the whole is no greater than the sum of its parts.

2. Mickey 17
This sci-fi comedy from the director of Parasite is great fun. Lots of crazy ideas, a beautiful love story, and scathing social commentary are clearly the film's strengths. A penniless Expendable signs up to venture on a spaceship to colonize a distant planet. Unfortunately, he didn't read the fine print, which guarantees him a free flight to the planet Niflheim, but also obliges him to take on all kinds of potentially deadly work on board the spaceship. But no problem: if he dies, a new version of him will simply be printed out and his consciousness transferred to this clone. His adversary in this suicide mission is a character who could be a combination of Trump, Musk, and a fundamentalist evangelical preacher.

3. Bugonia
A conspiracy theorist kidnaps the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company (Emma Stone) with the help of his peasant idiot friend and holds her captive in his basement. The ill-conceived plan is supposed to save the world. The female CEO is blamed for promoting bee mortality with her company's products. In reality, the conspiracy theorist is primarily motivated by personal revenge, but the idea of saving the world legitimizes even the most heinous acts in the kidnapper's eyes. Of course, nothing goes according to plan, and the bizarre finale is actually worth seeing. Before that, however, the film is often an imposition.

4. The Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson's tragicomedy tells the story of a family, a family business, and a tense father-daughter relationship, while also being a spy story. A star-studded cast performs in Anderson's typical style and beautiful imagery through a story that I didn't understand because there were simply too many plot twists—admittedly funny ones. Something about criticism of capitalism and the recurring conscience of a corporate tycoon after a near-death experience and other strokes of fate.