Issue #126 The West at War: On the Self-Enclosure of the Liberal Mind

The West at War: On the Self-Enclosure of the Liberal Mind

Boris Buden

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Still from Dušan Makavejev’s W. R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971).

Issue #126
April 2022










Notes
1

Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT Press, 1994), 189.

2

Jon Henley, “Meet Srdja Popovic, the Secret Architect of Global Revolution,” The Guardian, March 8, 2015 .

3

Henley, “Meet Srdja Popovic.”

4

Srđa Popović, “How to Start a Revolution in Five Easy Steps: Humour and Hobbits, but No Guns,” The Guardian, March 9, 2015 .

5

The marriage was between a cisgender woman and a trans man who was still legally regarded as a woman. See Edmund Schluessel and Sosialistinen Vaihtoehto, “100 Years Ago, a Forgotten Soviet Revolution in LGBTQ Rights: Review of Dan Healey’s book Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia,” Socialist Alternative, May 21, 2017 .

6

Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford University Press, 1998).

7

This is the thesis of Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans (Oxford University Press, 1997).

8

See . In a similar vein, European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen said that when it comes to the issue of Ukrainian membership in the EU, “there is no doubt that these brave people who defend our values ​​with their lives belong in the European family” .

A significant part of this text consists of the thoughts and ideas of my comrades and friends: Bini Adamczak, Rada Iveković, Gal Kirn, Sandro Mezzadra, Rastko Močnik, Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Branimir Stojanović, Paul Stubbs, Darko Suvin, Massimiliano Tomba, and many others. I was also influenced by the exhibition “Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War,” HKW, Berlin (November 2017–January 2018), curated by Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, and Antonia Majača.