Pergamon Museum - Pergamon Frieze 3

Pergamon Museum - Pergamon Frieze 3
Originally uploaded by Jerry Wang Yu.

Let's see how this works.


This is an picture of the Pergamon frieze which is described at the beginning of Peter Weiss's The Aesthetic of Resistance and discussed in my continuation of this blog at http://web.mac.com/sduring1/and also posted here in my next post.

Harold Laski?

A thought: what's the relation between Harold Laski's theory of sovereignty (articulated around the period of WW1) and that of figures like Carl Schmitt?

I'm not going to Hong Kong: little Nell's passport cant arrive in time. Which means I wont immediately write my paper 'Can we imagine a revolutionary (in the political sense) cultural studies?" But the key to the need for revolution is not that capitalism is auto-destructive but that the contemporary military-techno-finance structure can't co-exist with the contemporary nation-state (or more accurately with contemporary 'internationalism')