Tag Archives: Ernst Kirchner

cut off your tree to spite your earth

Cut off your tree. We are often told in the Palestinian rhetoric how the olive tree is the food of spirituality connected to the soil, all in a distinct and sanctified relation to the above. Allah’s benign and not so … Continue reading

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failures of empathy:aesthetics of doubt

The basic problem that Walter Benjamin was uncovering was the relation between law and justice as it leaned on violence.The struggle of the divine power with mythological violence.  His “Critique on Violence” addressed the question of whether violence in the … Continue reading

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