Dirk addresses the changing significance of ‘genocide’: ‘There is no mistaking the changing winds in the language of transgression. It is illuminating liberal permanent security as genocidal, thereby repoliticizing a concept whose foundations were flawed in its codification in the 1940s.’
"Indigenous and occupied peoples, then, are placed in an impossible position. If they resist with violence, they are violently put down. If they do not, states will overlook the lower-intensity but unrelenting violence to which they are subject."
- Dirk Moses
Just out journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
The theory of #permanentsecurity summed up perfectly.
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
This is the problem with #genocide rhetoric.
@dirkmoses.bsky.social has shown that genocide is the end result of permanent securitization - framing groups as permanent security threats.
Such abuses are always a part of total war - like the ones supposedly needed to stop the evil genocidaires...
I’ve not chased it up further I’m afraid
I’m looking. Must have
IIFFM #Sudan found 'hallmarks of #genocide' in the attacks on El-Fasher. BUT this is in the context of almost 3 yrs of such violent, ethnically/racially targeted crimes, where non-Arab communities are targeted for rape & killings. A resurgence of the early 2000s genocide. news.un.org/en/story/202...
Sounds like Arendt …
1946: Imperialism: Road to Suicide. www.commentary.org/articles/mor...
this is a must read for all those on here still puzzled by the germans...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@dirkmoses.bsky.social thanx for this issue.
„Was schmerzhafte Selbstbefragung sein sollte, wurde zur herrischen Geste.“
"Dirk Moses schlägt vor, dass in einer „Erziehung nach Gaza“ für deutsche Schulkinder die bei Youtube abrufbaren Hilferufe der fünfjährigen Hind Rajab einen Platz finden sollten, die im Januar 2024 bei einer israelischen Militäraktion getötet wurde."
„Aus der etablierten deutschen Akademikerschaft sind gegenwärtig solche widerständigen, die Dominanz des offiziellen deutschen Erinnerungsdiskurs hinterfragenden Töne nicht zu vernehmen.“ René Schlott über Omer Bartov und @dirkmoses.bsky.social. www.faz.net/aktuell/wiss...
* For the analysis
Thank you the analysis
In the forum on political economy, Jonathon Catlin asks what a public debate about the Frankfurt School's legacy among prominent former students of Martin Jay—the "Berkeley School"—tells us about the future relationship between political economy and intellectual history.
@joncatlin.bsky.social
Call for papers
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Ich bin auf jeden Fall sehr froh, in einer Reihe u.a. mit @adamtooze.bsky.social, @dirkmoses.bsky.social, @hahauenstein.bsky.social und @marwecki.bsky.social zu stehen. Eigentlich hätte auch der Redaktion @faznet.bsky.social auffallen müssen, dass sich hier jemand gegen einen Strohmann ficht...
Now on FirstView: Camilla Boisen reflects on the stories we tell ourselves about peace and genocide in her review essay of A. Dirk Moses' @dirkmoses.bsky.social The Problems of Genocide and Lauren Benton's They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
Dirk Moses senses ‘an air of desperation’ in recent responses of the pro-Statsrason thinkers. ‘Their catechism is buckling under the reality that the German public—including even some functionaries of the German state—can clearly see.’
Very important point by Dirk Moses (shortened by me):
"Germany’s fixation on the Nazi regime locks actors into a catastrophic binary of absolute innocence and absolute evil.
Coming to terms with the Nazi past can't mean adopting its categorization of the world by simply inverting the value signs."
I answer critics of “Education after Gaza” here.
blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
Postdoc binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...
Thanks both!