Ph. Theophanidis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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First version of Hannah Arendt’s chapter “The Crisis in Culture” (‘Between Past and Future’ 1961) published in the spring 1960 issue of Daedalus, dedicated to “Mass Culture and Mass Media” https://t.co/EGPndpRGxl https://t.co/RKud9HradS

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Reminds me of Aby Warburg’s ‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne’ (which just got a new treatment by @HatjeCantz ). More recently, @PublicDomainRev edited ‘Affinities: A Book of Images’ which uses a similar grammar. https://t.co/oXiwEI3eGZ https://t.co/BAjiY9oQi3

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Two years later, Claude Shannon published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” and Norbert Wiener published ‘Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine’ https://t.co/LHmxl3yPAt https://t.co/pyixSyP67d

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[1/2] “In gratitude, Celan translated Cioran’s first French-language book, ‘A Short History of Decay’ (1949’s ‘Précis de Decomposition’), into German as ‘Lehre Vom Zerfall’.” https://t.co/gPeV3cFoky

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Reminds me of Aby Warburg’s ‘Bilderatlas Mnemosyne’ (which just got a new treatment by @HatjeCantz ). More recently, @PublicDomainRev edited ‘Affinities: A Book of Images’ which uses a similar grammar. https://t.co/oXiwEI3eGZ https://t.co/BAjiY9oQi3

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“The time of common affirmation is precisely what has been taken away from them. What they are left with is the irreducible refusal, the friendship of this sure, unshakable, rigorous No that unites them and determines their solidarity.” Maurice Blanchot, “Refusal” Oct. 1958 https://t.co/aw3vra5Yr5

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3/3 “...The death sentence is therefore pronounced upon an entity which, being without its identity papers, is likely to be resuscitated under a different name.” — Umberto Eco, Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language, 1986, pp. 14-15

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“I have never liked the term “incommunicability,” [incomunicabilità] which was so fashionable in the 1970s, first because it is a linguistic monstrosity and then for more personal reasons.” — Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, [1986]2015, trans. Michael F. Moore, Chap. IV https://t.co/AR8ojY9EkU

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Yorgos Pratanos wrote ‘The Unwanted Dead’ “a novel that focusses on the 10 days after the death of Nikos Kazantzakis & the efforts of his widow, Eleni, to secure his burial […] despite bitter opposition from Greek state & church authorities” https://t.co/XyUAJ61jRy https://t.co/5ShXMaR8U6

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Two years later, Claude Shannon published “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” and Norbert Wiener published ‘Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine’ https://t.co/LHmxl3yPAt https://t.co/pyixSyP67d