#basicwitchswap aesthetic @sprainedbrain
Notes:
The thunderstorm is there to represent the water element.
Professor Trelawney is there to represent Divination practice (my fave HP witches are Hermione, Minerva and Bellatrix).
And the Turkey Pie is there instead of pumpkin and apples - I much prefer savoury pies to these traditional samhain/halloween foods.
“What Hegel and Marx called utopianism has been rendered obsolete by the present stage of history. That is because the stage reached by the forces of production really would permit us to eliminate need and because the entire world has been welded together in a single context of delusion and disaster, so that salvation lies only in impulses that lead us out of that totality.” — Theodor Adorno
There are no words.
“but why were the jews the scapegoats? because, adorno and horkheimer suggested, the image of the jew was the false projection of things that were unbearable about non-jewish society...‘no matter what the jews as such may be like, their image, as that of the defeated people, has the features to which totalitarian domination must be completely hostile: happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth...‘
If the title isn't long enough, the subtitle makes it even longer! 🤣🤣🤣 #unusualtitles @ljuliel
#NFNov @rsteve388 @Clwojick +1 participation = 26pts
pickJeffries‘s writing soars when he‘s digging into lesser-known materials (Adorno‘s adorbs letters to his mom) or narrating the lives of these monumental figures (the Benjamin stuff is especially moving). But the author‘s grasp of Marxism itself is...not great. Good for an overview of the FS/its thinkers, but without prior knowledge of Marx much of Jeffries‘s analysis would be somewhat misleading. Still, I loved this, and would recommend!
To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on [their] shelves.
I've had the #BestDay pounding the streets of Brussels looking at art nouveau buildings (including the magnificent Horta House) topped off by spotting this light projection on a building on our way back to our hotel after dinner. #SeptemberDanes
