Similar to webtoons in South Korea are the web novels in China, these are primarily split between XianXia and Wuxia-kung fu and kung fu-plus-fantasy. They are extremely violent and tightly formulaic,hero humiliates and tortures his enemies, leaving friends behind to worship and be servants on their journey into more powerful realms or whatever, and gets a harem which all get along. They have 1000s of chapters and were partially responsible for my troubles as a student: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia?wprov=sfti1
As empires crumble, they become erratically violent in their death throes. Assange’s exposé came at a crucial time, post-9/11 when a challenged US hegemony enacted a final flourish of global security overreach. Assange exposed outright the hypocrisy and lies hidden behind all the jingoistic rhetoric of the West ‘spreading democracy’, therefore incurring the wrath of this newly injured beast. He is the true martyr of our times, and dare I say not the last.
Who will be brave enough to carry out authentic journalism now when you can be killed/imprisoned with impunity for bringing truth to bear on those in power?
what is tangle??? i feel tangled.. entanglement in german is verschränken(a form of limiting something) like what they did in the saw-movies with the heavy metal stuff on people skins.. didn't 'we' raped atoms enough? what damn sense that quantitative abstract bs is making? quando quando quando..quando..?
is the old one.. apolitical is not like unpolitical it is just a politic..
and as it it has a pole'ing which is unneutral.. and because julian assange did nothing wrong.. what they did with him is fascism.. so that is what after the holocaost did maked history nearly the whole past is.. indifferent to nazi-fascism.. it is hard to not learn from the past but repeat it like in an hamsterwheel.. and all just because of some beliefs in lies..
In the tactics employed in Israeli necropolitical military-colonial warfare, the first victims of war are preferably the journalists. Then, when the world has hopefully been sufficiently blinded, the IDF can merrily set about its joyous Genocidal mass-slaughters. Similarly, the (permanent?) homo sacer status of Julian Assange's legal limbo serves as a stark warning to all those who possess the suicidal folly to question State power and warfare.
"Gaza’s journalists: ‘Targets’ or ‘casualties’ of Israel’s war?
According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory – documenting their own genocide."
"The pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European?
In 2003, an Israeli soldier shot dead the British documentary cameraman James Miller in Gaza. An inquest in the UK returned a verdict of unlawful killing. Israel declined to prosecute the soldier responsible but it did pay £1.5m in compensation, which Miller’s family said was “probably the closest we’ll get to an admission of guilt on the part of the Israelis”.
Miller’s killing looked to be part of a pattern of ill-disciplined Israeli soldiers shooting whoever they felt like – not only journalists but UN officials and aid workers as well as Palestinian children. The army was usually quick to try to cover up the killings but it did not appear they were coordinated.
Gaza looks very different today. As the CPJ and the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders say, the scale and nature of the deaths of journalists and their families suggests there is more going on than a few ill-disciplined soldiers taking pot shots at reporters, even taking into account the deaths of thousands of other Palestinians, including more than 8,000 children.
Certainly the message from some Israeli leaders is that journalists are fair game. Israeli politicians were quick to call for the “elimination” of a number of Palestinian journalists working for foreign news organisations who were falsely accused by a pro-Israel pressure group in the US of being “embedded with Hamas” on 7 October. Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, said they should be hunted down as terrorists, reflecting a widely held suspicion among Israeli officials that Palestinian journalists are an appendage of Hamas."
"Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging.
In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ’s research to date has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying out their work in Israel and the two Palestinian territories, Gaza and the West Bank. These include 21 arrests, as well as numerous assaults, threats, cyberattacks, and censorship."
Letter to Biden from Press Freedom and Human Rights Organizations (1/10/2024)
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), more journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the hostilities than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year. Four journalists were killed in Hamas’ assault on October7, and at least 75journalists have been killed since, almost all of them by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) according to CPJ. The U.S. State Department spokesperson recently said that the United States has not seen any evidence that Israel is intentionally targeting journalists. Yet credible reports by human rights and media organizations indicate that the IDF strikes in southern Lebanon on October13 that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists from Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Agence France-Presse were unlawful and apparently deliberate.1The IDF has also acknowledged deliberately targeting a car in which journalists were traveling on January7, killing two journalists and seriously inuring a third. In at least two other cases, journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and IDF officers before their family members were killed in Gaza. Of course, the targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime, and the International Criminal Court has said that it will investigate reports of war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza."
"Press freedom groups urge Biden to hold Israel accountable for killings of journalists
Letter to US president says more reporters have been killed in Gaza war since October than in any single country over an entire year
“journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and IDF officers before their family members were killed in Gaza”.
“Of course, the targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime, and the international criminal court has said that it will investigate reports of war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza,” the letter said.
The letter noted the “longstanding pattern of impunity in the killings of journalists by the IDF”, including over the shooting death last year of the Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a US citizen."
"Though the IDF say they do not target journalists, it has been established that they have killed people clearly identified as members of the press, and that they have a record of false claims about and impunity for the deaths of media professionals. Prior to the war, a CPJ report found that 20 journalists had been killed by Israeli military fire in 22 years without anyone being held accountable. They included the renowned Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
Reuters says its journalist Issam Abdallah was killed by an Israeli tank shell in Lebanon in October, in an attack which Agence France Press described as “deliberate and targeted”, and which Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want investigated as a possible war crime. In another case, the IDF said they were targeting a “terrorist” using a drone when they killed two journalists in a car, before suggesting that the men had looked like terrorists because they had a camera drone.
Attacks on journalists are not only attacks on civilians, as grave as those are. They also strike at the truth itself: at the ability to establish it, and to share it. International news organisations have been able to access Gaza only extremely briefly and under tight restrictions, all but one embedded with the IDF. Those who live there are the eyes of the world.
Beyond the risk of death, says the CPJ, Palestinian journalists have experienced “arrests … numerous assaults, threats, cyber-attacks and censorship”. Nineteen are in prison – putting Israel on the organisation’s list of the worst jailers of journalists for the first time, alongside China, Myanmar, Russia and Iran. Most are held under “administrative detention”, which allows the Israeli military to detain people in the occupied territories without trial or time limit."
At least in Christianity, Apocalypse was supposed to contain Revelations.
These Revelations were not new however, but consist of the already known, enunciated in prophecy but now made manifest. And possibly made finally complete. The Parousia, the Second Coming would fix all the problems that afflicted the first Life of Christ.
This is all very familiar to readers of Zizek who often stresses the Hegelian point that the initial steps are the steps made in error. With later steps sometimes being corrections of earlier errors that were necessary in order that these later corrections, later steps closer to the truth, could be made.
Notably, Zizek's tone has taken a distinctively pessimistic and fatalistic tone lately. From "In Defence of Lost Causes" to pieces such as the above concerning the pathetic nature of the world's ending, Zizek seems (along with everybody else in the year 2024) to have lost all his last vestiges of Ernst Blochian Hope.
"Hegel didn’t just say that we learn nothing from history,
he said that the only thing we can learn from history is that there
is nothing to learn from it. Of course we “learn from history” in
the sense of reacting to past catastrophes and including them in
our frameworks for a possible better future. After the horror of
the First World War, for instance, people were utterly horrified
and they formed the League of Nations to prevent future wars—
but it was nonetheless followed by the Second World War. I am
here a Hegelian pessimist: every work of mourning, every symbolization
of a catastrophe misses something and thus opens a
path toward a new catastrophe. And it doesn’t help if we know
the danger that lies ahead. Take the myth of Oedipus: Oedipus’s
parents knew what would happen and the catastrophe occurred
because they tried to avoid it. Without the prophecy that told
them what would happen, there would have been no catastrophe.
Our acts are never self-transparent, we never fully know
what we are doing or what the effects will be. Hegel was aware
of this, and what he called “reconciliation” is not a triumph of
reason but the acceptance of the tragic dimension of our activity:
we have to accept humbly the consequences of our acts,
even if we didn’t intend them."
From "Simple Things are Hard to Do" from "Pandemic 2"
And so the shape of the end of the world will not be a world-shattering, world-revealing set of triumphant eschatological completions. Instead, it will be the literary efforts of internet isolates from who the very notion of praxis is not even a dead ideal. The end of the world can be seen by looking at
"“web novels” in South Korea, the price we often pay for adhering to these new communities is all too often depoliticization, which means that in spite of their openness some basic dimensions are excluded from them."
> A unique form of literature, the so-called “web soseol” (웹소설) [..] is gradually spreading also elsewhere, especially in China and the US.
Which platforms / mediums are these serialized soseols appearing? And can anyone recommend any theory-fiction writers (in any language)?
Similar to webtoons in South Korea are the web novels in China, these are primarily split between XianXia and Wuxia-kung fu and kung fu-plus-fantasy. They are extremely violent and tightly formulaic,hero humiliates and tortures his enemies, leaving friends behind to worship and be servants on their journey into more powerful realms or whatever, and gets a harem which all get along. They have 1000s of chapters and were partially responsible for my troubles as a student: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianxia?wprov=sfti1
I remember the first one I read, “Peerless Martial God”.
Makes one think webnovels are a new form of the “death of the author”. Also, happy 100-year anniversary of Lenin’s death.
As empires crumble, they become erratically violent in their death throes. Assange’s exposé came at a crucial time, post-9/11 when a challenged US hegemony enacted a final flourish of global security overreach. Assange exposed outright the hypocrisy and lies hidden behind all the jingoistic rhetoric of the West ‘spreading democracy’, therefore incurring the wrath of this newly injured beast. He is the true martyr of our times, and dare I say not the last.
Who will be brave enough to carry out authentic journalism now when you can be killed/imprisoned with impunity for bringing truth to bear on those in power?
While, probably on most subjects, we stand polar opposites, on this one I very much agree.
While you pissed me off with your skiing comments, you touched me with this one, that I would label "apocalyptic nostalgia"
what is tangle??? i feel tangled.. entanglement in german is verschränken(a form of limiting something) like what they did in the saw-movies with the heavy metal stuff on people skins.. didn't 'we' raped atoms enough? what damn sense that quantitative abstract bs is making? quando quando quando..quando..?
'the new apolitical neutrality..'
is the old one.. apolitical is not like unpolitical it is just a politic..
and as it it has a pole'ing which is unneutral.. and because julian assange did nothing wrong.. what they did with him is fascism.. so that is what after the holocaost did maked history nearly the whole past is.. indifferent to nazi-fascism.. it is hard to not learn from the past but repeat it like in an hamsterwheel.. and all just because of some beliefs in lies..
sometimes all you ever get are endings... which are still better than nothing.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/25MNVetKvUepoBOOMnxUXR?si=05d1100ebb554c78
Jel' ovo stvarno Slavoj?
Awesome. Loved it. You just jumped one spot on my weekly fav slovenian tracker:
1. Pogačar
2. Roglić
3. Žižek
4. Doncić
5. Mohorić
😂
In the tactics employed in Israeli necropolitical military-colonial warfare, the first victims of war are preferably the journalists. Then, when the world has hopefully been sufficiently blinded, the IDF can merrily set about its joyous Genocidal mass-slaughters. Similarly, the (permanent?) homo sacer status of Julian Assange's legal limbo serves as a stark warning to all those who possess the suicidal folly to question State power and warfare.
"Gaza’s journalists: ‘Targets’ or ‘casualties’ of Israel’s war?
According to Gaza’s government media office, Israel’s military has now killed 97 journalists in the Strip. Israel has barred international media from entering Gaza, firsthand reporting on the onslaught there has been left to Palestinians already locked into the occupied territory – documenting their own genocide."
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2023/12/23/gazas-journalists-targets-or-casualties-of-israels-war
"The pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European?
In 2003, an Israeli soldier shot dead the British documentary cameraman James Miller in Gaza. An inquest in the UK returned a verdict of unlawful killing. Israel declined to prosecute the soldier responsible but it did pay £1.5m in compensation, which Miller’s family said was “probably the closest we’ll get to an admission of guilt on the part of the Israelis”.
Miller’s killing looked to be part of a pattern of ill-disciplined Israeli soldiers shooting whoever they felt like – not only journalists but UN officials and aid workers as well as Palestinian children. The army was usually quick to try to cover up the killings but it did not appear they were coordinated.
Gaza looks very different today. As the CPJ and the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders say, the scale and nature of the deaths of journalists and their families suggests there is more going on than a few ill-disciplined soldiers taking pot shots at reporters, even taking into account the deaths of thousands of other Palestinians, including more than 8,000 children.
Certainly the message from some Israeli leaders is that journalists are fair game. Israeli politicians were quick to call for the “elimination” of a number of Palestinian journalists working for foreign news organisations who were falsely accused by a pro-Israel pressure group in the US of being “embedded with Hamas” on 7 October. Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet, said they should be hunted down as terrorists, reflecting a widely held suspicion among Israeli officials that Palestinian journalists are an appendage of Hamas."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/israel-murdering-palestinian-journalists-in-gaza
"Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, journalists and media across the region have faced a hostile environment that has made reporting on the war exceptionally challenging.
In addition to documenting the growing tally of journalists killed and injured, CPJ’s research to date has found multiple kinds of incidents of journalists being targeted while carrying out their work in Israel and the two Palestinian territories, Gaza and the West Bank. These include 21 arrests, as well as numerous assaults, threats, cyberattacks, and censorship."
https://cpj.org/2024/01/attacks-arrests-threats-censorship-the-high-risks-of-reporting-the-israel-hamas-war/
"As of January 10:
• 79 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 72 Palestinian, 4 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese.
• 16 journalists were reported injured.
• 3 journalists were reported missing.
• 21 journalists were reported arrested.
• Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members.
https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
Letter to Biden from Press Freedom and Human Rights Organizations (1/10/2024)
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), more journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the hostilities than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year. Four journalists were killed in Hamas’ assault on October7, and at least 75journalists have been killed since, almost all of them by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) according to CPJ. The U.S. State Department spokesperson recently said that the United States has not seen any evidence that Israel is intentionally targeting journalists. Yet credible reports by human rights and media organizations indicate that the IDF strikes in southern Lebanon on October13 that killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists from Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Agence France-Presse were unlawful and apparently deliberate.1The IDF has also acknowledged deliberately targeting a car in which journalists were traveling on January7, killing two journalists and seriously inuring a third. In at least two other cases, journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and IDF officers before their family members were killed in Gaza. Of course, the targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime, and the International Criminal Court has said that it will investigate reports of war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza."
https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/f5d85kzjxf
"Press freedom groups urge Biden to hold Israel accountable for killings of journalists
Letter to US president says more reporters have been killed in Gaza war since October than in any single country over an entire year
“journalists reported receiving threats from Israeli officials and IDF officers before their family members were killed in Gaza”.
“Of course, the targeted or indiscriminate killing of journalists, if committed deliberately or recklessly, is a war crime, and the international criminal court has said that it will investigate reports of war crimes committed against journalists in Gaza,” the letter said.
The letter noted the “longstanding pattern of impunity in the killings of journalists by the IDF”, including over the shooting death last year of the Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a US citizen."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/11/biden-israel-gaza-war-killing-reporters-press-freedom
"Though the IDF say they do not target journalists, it has been established that they have killed people clearly identified as members of the press, and that they have a record of false claims about and impunity for the deaths of media professionals. Prior to the war, a CPJ report found that 20 journalists had been killed by Israeli military fire in 22 years without anyone being held accountable. They included the renowned Palestinian-American reporter Shireen Abu Akleh.
Reuters says its journalist Issam Abdallah was killed by an Israeli tank shell in Lebanon in October, in an attack which Agence France Press described as “deliberate and targeted”, and which Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want investigated as a possible war crime. In another case, the IDF said they were targeting a “terrorist” using a drone when they killed two journalists in a car, before suggesting that the men had looked like terrorists because they had a camera drone.
Attacks on journalists are not only attacks on civilians, as grave as those are. They also strike at the truth itself: at the ability to establish it, and to share it. International news organisations have been able to access Gaza only extremely briefly and under tight restrictions, all but one embedded with the IDF. Those who live there are the eyes of the world.
Beyond the risk of death, says the CPJ, Palestinian journalists have experienced “arrests … numerous assaults, threats, cyber-attacks and censorship”. Nineteen are in prison – putting Israel on the organisation’s list of the worst jailers of journalists for the first time, alongside China, Myanmar, Russia and Iran. Most are held under “administrative detention”, which allows the Israeli military to detain people in the occupied territories without trial or time limit."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/18/the-guardian-view-on-gaza-journalists-their-lives-and-press-freedom-must-be-protected
At least in Christianity, Apocalypse was supposed to contain Revelations.
These Revelations were not new however, but consist of the already known, enunciated in prophecy but now made manifest. And possibly made finally complete. The Parousia, the Second Coming would fix all the problems that afflicted the first Life of Christ.
This is all very familiar to readers of Zizek who often stresses the Hegelian point that the initial steps are the steps made in error. With later steps sometimes being corrections of earlier errors that were necessary in order that these later corrections, later steps closer to the truth, could be made.
Notably, Zizek's tone has taken a distinctively pessimistic and fatalistic tone lately. From "In Defence of Lost Causes" to pieces such as the above concerning the pathetic nature of the world's ending, Zizek seems (along with everybody else in the year 2024) to have lost all his last vestiges of Ernst Blochian Hope.
"Hegel didn’t just say that we learn nothing from history,
he said that the only thing we can learn from history is that there
is nothing to learn from it. Of course we “learn from history” in
the sense of reacting to past catastrophes and including them in
our frameworks for a possible better future. After the horror of
the First World War, for instance, people were utterly horrified
and they formed the League of Nations to prevent future wars—
but it was nonetheless followed by the Second World War. I am
here a Hegelian pessimist: every work of mourning, every symbolization
of a catastrophe misses something and thus opens a
path toward a new catastrophe. And it doesn’t help if we know
the danger that lies ahead. Take the myth of Oedipus: Oedipus’s
parents knew what would happen and the catastrophe occurred
because they tried to avoid it. Without the prophecy that told
them what would happen, there would have been no catastrophe.
Our acts are never self-transparent, we never fully know
what we are doing or what the effects will be. Hegel was aware
of this, and what he called “reconciliation” is not a triumph of
reason but the acceptance of the tragic dimension of our activity:
we have to accept humbly the consequences of our acts,
even if we didn’t intend them."
From "Simple Things are Hard to Do" from "Pandemic 2"
And so the shape of the end of the world will not be a world-shattering, world-revealing set of triumphant eschatological completions. Instead, it will be the literary efforts of internet isolates from who the very notion of praxis is not even a dead ideal. The end of the world can be seen by looking at
"“web novels” in South Korea, the price we often pay for adhering to these new communities is all too often depoliticization, which means that in spite of their openness some basic dimensions are excluded from them."
Assange is kool! His situation tragic...like all of ours-fatal. And being so, his daily persistence, like ours, is applaudable!