Military Rituals. The Aesthetics of State Violence. Critics and Analysis of an Instrument of Dominance in its historic-systematic Context
by Markus Euskirchen
In military rituals modern nation states present themselves by showing their monopoly on violence in a ritualized manner. This work asks How are military rituals working? and Why do they exist? (and: How influences one answer the other?). A discussion of notions of ritual in social sciences on one hand and of the modern nation states monopoly on physical force on the other are the theoretical core and the context which is needed to understand military ritual as a socio-political phenomenon. Continue Reading »
See our (with Henrik Lebuhn and Gene Ray) follow up of our first Borderland-article: Big Trouble in Borderland: Immigration Rights and No-Border Struggles in Europe, published in metamute, the web page of mute magazine, culture and politics after the net.
…Blick: Hollow Land. The Architecture of Occupation: An exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation. From the deep subterranean spaces of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, the mechanisms of control and the transformation of the Occupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice is shown, in which natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition with which the conflict is waged. Und bei aller Perspektivenkritik nicht ganz ohne Relevanz: Kartenmaterial. Ein kleiner Video-Clip mit moderierten Landkarten bietet einen recht vernünftig geratenen Einstieg/Überblick über die Problematik Mauer/Grüne Linie, aus der arte-Reihe “Mit offenen Karten”.
“Manifestoon” by Jesse Drew. An animated look at Marxian analysis, utopia, and what is wrong with current society.
Aus einem eMail-Wechsel mit einem Freund. Er ist ursprünglich US-Amerikaner, lebt aber seit einiger Zeit schon hier in Berlin – fast wie im Exil. Er berichtet immer im Detail von den neuesten, von aussen nur mit viel Aufwand durchschaubaren innenpolitischen Entwicklungen in den USA: Continue Reading »
Recently a collegue from Egypt contatcted me. He was interested in Krippendorff’s contributions to International Relations Theory and Peace Research in English language. And yes, there are some pieces worth being re-read until today. Therefore I published some of them on this page Continue Reading »
The presentation “Military Rituals. Frequently Asked Questions” provides a quick overview in english language over the main topics, arguments and critics of my book Militärrituale (in german language only). It was held at the Conference “Banal Militarism”, 15th oct 2004, CCS (Center for Conflict Studies) Philipps-Universität Marburg/Germany. Continue Reading »
Military Rituals. The Aesthetics of State Violence. Critics and Analysis of an Instrument of Dominance in its historic-systematic Context
