Re: [-empyre-] "what is to be done?" Lenin's words--forward from Claudia Reiche

["Saul Ostrow" <sostrow@gate.cia.edu>]

he difference does not lie between the repetition of words, events, images 
etc.  and  their former appearence, or even to notice that there will 
have been a repetition but in the effect that htese have on the ocntext in whihc they
have been presented - if one can not judge one's own effect then one is lost to running
in place 
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From: claudia reiche <office@claudia-reiche.net>
To: empyre@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Sent: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:51:46 +0100
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] "what is to be done?" Lenin's words--forward from Claudia Reiche

> > seemingly the problem [WINDOWS-1252?][?] is that when we are critical of
> > others we tend not to judge ourselves or our solutions by the same 
> > terms -- the failure
> > to be self reflexive leaves us running in place
>   One can judge, that's for sure,  if the same terms (words) are used 
> ....
> hmm,  I do not know how to judge  myself for instance  by the same 
> terms like Lenin or Buergel?
> Could you?
> The only sure way of not running in place I've heard of is to judge the 
> .
> One could even call this the core of education,  as potentially freeing 
> history  from running in place.
> 
> Claudia
> 
> "The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as 
> an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and 
> is never seen again. [WINDOWS-1252?]?The truth will not run away from
[WINDOWS-1252?]us?: in the 
> historical outlook of historicism these words of Gottfried Keller mark 
> the exact point where historical materialism cuts through historicism. 
> For every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as 
> one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably [WINDOWS-1252?][?] To 
> articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it [WINDOWS-1252?]?the way 
> it really [WINDOWS-1252?]was? (Ranke). It means to seize hold of a memory as it 
> flashes up at a moment of danger. [WINDOWS-1252?][?] The danger affects both the 
> content of the tradition and its receivers. The same threat hangs over 
> both: that of becoming a tool of the ruling classes. In every era the 
> attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism 
> that is about to overpower it.." Walter Benjamin, On the concept of 
> history
> 
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