The Angel of History Goes to the Front

For the World Passport see →.

Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence,” in Reflections, trans. Edmund Jephcott (Schocken Books, 1986), 297.

Dima Kortukov and Julian G. Waller, “‘The DNA of Russia’: Ideology and Patriotic Education in Wartime Russia,” Russia.Post, October 30, 2024 →.

For Eurodac see →.

Anonymous, “‘I Did Not Agree to These Demands and, Of Course, I Did Not Intend to Follow Them,’” Russia.Post, April 24, 2025 →.

For an account of Benjamin’s final days, see Jairus Banaji, “Civil-Society-Fascism & the Death of Walter Benjamin,” Historical Materialism website →.

Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” in Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn (Schocken Books, 1969), 266–67.