Tag "Walter Benjamin"
Back to homepage
Towards the Writing of a History of the Persecuted
Day One: you wake in the womb only / to realise your destination / was destroyed – pogroms ago – by the dumb / acquiescence of the fearful and the ferocious greed / of the greedy
you will wake in the womb only to realise / your destination was destroyed / by American, German, British, Italian & Indian weapons
Walter Benjamin. A poem by Séamas Carraher
That time too, Walter, has left, like a painting or a book that hangs, birdlike, from your mouth, wide-open in surprise: your death mask’s endless labouring
Read More
18 Theses, on the Philosophy of History, (poem), 2
Danger! The past will come upon us now like a carbomb or a trainwreck to the station
Read More
Benjamin’s Grave
Seamas Carraher returns on Walter Benjamin with what he himself calls an “experimental poem”.
Read More
On the Concept of History – Walter Benjamin – download e-book
Here we publish a new e-book, On the Concept of History by Walter Benjamin, translated by Dennis Redmond
Read More
Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem) – downloadable E-Book
Here we publish Theses on (the Philosophy of) History (poem), a poem by Seamas Carraher
Read More
ON A DAY THIS WEEK… WALTER BENJAMIN
On a day this week, the 26th (or 27th) of September 1940, the radical German Jewish intellectual, Marxist, and writer Walter Benjamin died by suicide after almost a decade fleeing the Nazis and on threat of being handed over to the Gestapo by Spanish border guards the following day…He was just 48 years old
Read More
ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in August 1956
On a day this week, the 14th August, 1956, after more than 40 years as playwright, theatre director and social critic, the communist writer and poet Bertolt Brecht died of heart failure in the flat he shared with Helene Weigel
Read More