Nader Andrawos
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social and political theorist. postdoc fellow at @iglp_HarvardLaw . disgruntled socialist. boomer at heart. will rant about Wittgenstein, Hegel and law.
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can someone explain the cultural history of how joe rogan’s political views have “fatwa” level authority over the minds of white heterosexual men
BREAKING: Joe Rogan says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
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i am a coptic guy who lived most of my life in a muslim-majority country.
i have never experienced the level of disciplining, scrutiny and violation of boundaries that i have seen in the US.
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I had to withdraw from a German government-funded academic project, hosted by the FU, in solidarity with the global call by artists to boycott German cultural institutions in protest. It’s time scholars join artists in this move
@strikegermany
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@AsadFromNYC
social interactions here are like psychological warfare, in which other people are obsessed with trying to “figure you out” in order to calculate how to deal with you. it’s exhausting to everyone involved.
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“dresden!” *takes another puff of the joint*
this is how i want my vibe to be, perhaps minus the loser energy
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we need to talk more about this brilliant book. why has it been forgotten? someone (me?) should write an article about its context and ambition.
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@AhmedNajiTW
i know it’s big, and i think i understand what he embodies along with Chappell. they are not typical right-wing voices, they represent a very particular kind of disaffected skeptic.
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Chomsky signed this. i really really think he just signs any open letter sent to him haha.
Open letter of the intellectuals of the Global South:
"All those who demand freedom for themselves,who believe in the right of citizens to choose their leaders and to refuse tyranny,must stand with the Ukrainians today. Freedom must be defended everywhere"
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@buffsoldier_96
no ralph that’s not true, most arabs would not recognize Husseini. I only knew about him from academic histories and critiques of zionist narratives.
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let me tell you about my dream of writing “sayyid qutb: the musical”
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@lakeeater
you need to think like a lawyer to dispel the mystification of law. one has to pass through the symptom first.
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can’t express how angry I am that every major capital has a large protest now except Cairo, which always led those solidarity protests. and...I think one of our demands should be the freedom to express solidarity publicly without fear.
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ok but what if national liberation and settler-colonizing are not necessarily opposites? from where does the assumption come that national liberation movements are benign?
still baffled that a history professor tried to tell me with a straight face that zionism is a national liberation movement. lmao
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my students today forced me to speak about alaa in class when this was not the plan. and i was pleasantly surprised, this is the first time i feel they are challenging common sense. the moment is that powerful.
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the libya intervention in 2011 seems to have been a turning point in russian and chinese foreign policy, despite the fact that they both signed up for it. no one talks about that.
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this is hell. we’re living in hell. it is impossible to avoid complicity some way or another. this is what colonialism and domination do, the manicheasm is so absolute that any concrete statement about life itself is impossible. one can only stutter. this is the real horror.
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happy to announce that I’ve been selected as Joint Winner of the 2022 Leigh Douglas Memorial from BRISMES for my doctoral thesis. so encouraging !!
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Alia’s excellent and inspiring PhD thesis can be read here. It’s a beautiful, lyrical piece of writing:
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Historian Alia Mossallam was arrested and detained in Cairo Airport on her visit from Berlin where she is doing her postdoc. This is deeply worrying.
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people, there is no radical action possible within the university. reconcile yourselves to this fate and move on. scholarship can still be used by those outside, but don't confuse scholarship with changing the world, it is self-serving, deceptive, and just flashy careerism.
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rule of thumb: anyone one who tells you that the poor only care about bread and not freedom, know for sure that they hate the poor and will abandon them when they get the opportunity.
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something i noticed is that in arabic conversations the debate about “one-state” versus “two-state” is not the utopian kind of speculation about what a “solution” is (because the language of “solution” misses the “justice” aspect of the issue). in arabic, the repudiation of the..
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one of my best, cleverest students is a fan of jordan peterson. the only reason he paid attention to and trusted
me was because he felt i have an alternative answers to the same sorts of questions. and i convinced him to rethink.
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@DrTomOShea
claude lefort deals with this problem really nicely and explains where it comes from and how it could be corrected, specifically her misreading of the French Revolution.
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next semester i’m teaching a course on social movements. give me your best recommendations!
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the power of alaa for me is that he’s teaching us all how to appropriate death in such a way that it is not fully under the control of the state. it’s as if he has decided that he will die on his own terms, not the state’s. he will not be a sacrifice.
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part of my terrible heartbreak (depression, really) during this nightmare is that i’m not sure what “we” — western-educated, progressive, anti-imperialist scholars and artists — are supposed to do. who is our audience?
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unless the left goes back to basics and provides a solid response to those sorts of issues, we’re lost. there’s a deep pain and rage being ignored by intellectuals and academia.
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also a good reminder that cruelty is a worse vice than hypocrisy
This is true, and I'm a bit jealous that
@lionel_trolling
wrote it: "The cynical pose, which flatters itself on being always undeceived, is in practice highly gullible and distinguishable from naivety only in the sour churlishness of its affect."
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leftists will fail, will continue to fail, and they will fail miserably, unless they understand that their struggle is irreducibly about *freedom*. a tradition that has managed to cut off its original links with the concept of freedom deserves to lose.
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i’m really tired of those sorts of arguments. the logical conclusion to this formal of arguments is that no action is worthwhile because the crime is too big anyway. and it also shows an inability for analogical thinking and the use of example.
By all means boycott the World Cup due to Qatar's bad record on labour rights, but at least be consistent and think of the role of dire labour conditions in just about everything else you consume: food, clothes, electronics; almost all commodities.
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there was an arab thinker — i can’t remember whom — who used to say that Israel’s problem is that it is “anachronistic.” it wants to achieve a 19th century task (possibly even much older) in a different moral universe. i always remember this whenever…
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i don’t know for how long i can handle the anxiety and financial insecurity that comes with being on the academic job market. i feel i’m about to crack at any moment. the system is designed to make you feel worthless and it’s generally successful at it.
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انا واحد شغله على تاريخ الحركة الحقوقية ويقول لحضرتك الكلام دة كذب.
عارف ليه يا حسام بهجت حملة الاقراج عن حافظ نجحت تخرجة بعد ٦ ايام ؟!!
لان الحملة الناجحة ليها عنصرين اساسين ( دعم شعبى محلى + تعاطف دولى )
ومن الغباء تخيل ان التعاطف الدولى فقط ينجح اى حملة اذا لم تكن الناس شعبيا معاك
ما تخسرش الناس وتتعالى على اللي بيساعد فى وقت محتاجين الدعم
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i am not exaggerating when i say that alaa’s personal struggle now has a revolutionary, global and world-historic significance
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I wrote an essay on Alaa’s book and what the Seif family exemplify to me. May be the best text I’ve ever written.
Nader Andrawos writes on Alaa Abd El Fattah’s reflections on law.
(4/4)
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i finally realized what i want in a partner. i want someone to challenge me to continue developing in the areas I care about, to have a devious imagination, and to be communicative. unfortunately, i’m starting to believe this cannot exist.
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i am tired of being forced to expose victimhood status to get anyone to pay attention to any demand or claim I make. this very American pathology is so disturbing to me.
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for me it means, as a minimum, giving citizenship rights to all palestinians and the right to vote, and abolishing the law of return, replacing it with a different basic law that de-ethnicizes migration policy.
What does it mean to "decolonize" Palestine? Various parties use the term in totally different ways:
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the political philosopher Claude Lefort once said that one of the signs of the totalitarianism (and its difference from authoritarianism) is that it completely collapses the distinction between knowledge and power. this is what we’re seeing in egypt.
The president issued a law allowing the minister of defence to confer on graduates of Egyptian military academies degrees of political science, economics, statistics, computing, business and engeenering.
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well i appreciate the honesty.
is this a thing applications will say from now on?
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news in arabic is that consensus among Gazans is refusal to leave. i am in awe.
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i don’t know how critical and post-colonial theorists managed to spend something like four decades with barely any serious working through the legacy of national liberation as a defining world-historic era. some treat this like it never even happened.
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i completely believe that some philosophical ideas can only be understood and appreciated if you lived long enough under a dictatorship
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i miss mashrou leila and despite all their shortcomings we have to admit they defined an era
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oh let us also not forget that Alia is a trailblazer in building research communities outside the university (that’s why she’s so dangerous?). she started an initiative to train researchers in oral historical methods and history-from-below, called “احكي يا تاريخ".
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honestly i respect Greta now for refusing to come to the COP27. it shows she’s growing as a climate activist and is seeing the connection between planetary destruction and authoritarianism.
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merry western christmas 🎅🏿
here’s arendt’s take on the issue
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one thing that Alaa and the Seif family are doing — unintentionally, I think — is to expose the arbitrariness of “citizenship” as it is currently arranged. think about it. a whole government now has to advocate for a political prisoner because his mother
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there is a massive disconnect between the kind of questions asked before an international audience and the kind of questions that you find in intra-Arab conversations.
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woke: i condemn hamas because of their actions on October 7th.
bespoke: I condemn political Islam for its suppression of the Islamic mystical tradition.
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it should be clear by now that one of the reasons why culture war politics never ends is the structure and political economy of the university.
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we may need a leftist just war theory, as Balibar suggested. not Walzer though, he still is wrong.
I don't like war, I think I'm a pacifist, but I think it is good the allies beat the axis, the union beat the confederacy, the Haitians beat the French/Spanish/British, the (North) Vietnamese beat the French/US/Khmer Rouge + US, etc. I don't really know how to reconcile this.
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two-state discourse is chiefly framed as a denunciation of the Palestinian Authority and its corrupt authoritarianism. there is no “one-state versus two-state” debate (because this is not a technical problem looking for a “solution”), but there is debate over the PA.
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controversial take but here we go: we don’t need to deny that the history of decolonization involved mass violence against former colonizers. we can discuss this openly but on our own terms, without demonizing this history but also without falsifying it.
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yeah than imagine what egyptian women go through, then read up on the history of feminism there. but this tweet reeks of condescension and hypocritical righteousness.
@AndrawosNader
I went on an official visit to Egypt and twice had to "hold it" because neither the police headquarters nor Supreme Court had women's bathrooms. Because women don't really work there except as cleaning staff. Yes Americans are hella nosy. They also build women's bathrooms.
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i want a definition of “decolonization” that’s not an advocacy for fascists. will wait.
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law is the base not the superstructure. “relations of production” are actually legal relations. marxists are implicitly working with a natural law conception of justice.
What Marxist take will have you like this?
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by the way, this tweet was not meant to dilute or minimize the very real sectarianism in egypt, a sectarianism that is has a social source and is not just the state’s fault. it may be that it’s just easier to “hide” in egypt to spare yourself most of the bullshit.
i am a coptic guy who lived most of my life in a muslim-majority country.
i have never experienced the level of disciplining, scrutiny and violation of boundaries that i have seen in the US.
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@shaabiranks
this doesn’t answer my question and just states a platitude. but if you’re comfortable with that, sure why not.
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sometimes i feel if the one-state versus two-state debate is a way to avoid talking about whether we need an entirely new international system altogether. because, you know, the “Palestinian question” was born with international law.
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the number of times i’ve encountered arab and islamic exceptionalism when speaking about slavery does not give a good indication.
How far are we from ostensibly left-liberal academics talking about “kafalaphobia”?
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@lakeeater
the long struggle of undoing an affective attachment to a certain picture of justice, it can’t be done in one step even.
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the secret to foreign language learning: learn by heart the 500 most common verbs and you now have access to literally most of the vocabulary.
you can thank me later.
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ok i’m sorry, but we’ve been bombarded for a WHOLE MONTH now by pure insinuations of secret knowledge that the public cannot be exposed to. i will not take seriously any journalist who continues to use this weird trope, or anyone who shares this sentiment.
As folks here prob know, Israel has compiled 45m of the absolute worst, uncensored footage found on Hamas bodycams. It was screened to journos, but not officially released. Now it seems the footage has been 'leaked.' My advice if you come across it: Don't watch. Don't share.
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woah i didn’t know this, but Moses Finley (best historian of ancient Greece) was an active member of the Frankfurt School when they were in the US
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you cannot and will not stop me from overusing italics in my writing. i want the text to be *recited* in a certain way, the way it sounds in my head.
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americans really need to wage a much stronger critique of judicial review. it must be limited to a minimum core of civil and political rights — universal suffrage, cracking down on emergency laws, assembly and association — everything else should be left to legislation.
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the weird thing about statements like this is that in ANY possible vision of self-determination, the settlements must be forcibly removed. I want someone to describe to me the method of removing settlements that is going to appeal to our delicate moral sensibility.
For generations, the Marxist left - Arab, Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian, Italian, etc - had a basic approach to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: recognition of the self-determination rights of both national communities living there.
And now: this. One-sided hashtags w no content
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“why do i understand dead german philosophers from the 19th century more than i understand my own love life?”
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yes, i hate work and think laziness is a virtue. i also think that work is necessary for the cultivation of human freedom. we exist.
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time to move from “ceasefire now” to demanding regime change in israel.
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jesus christ, HAMAS ITSELF HAS SAID IT AGREES TO AN ICC INVESTIGATION YOU DUMBASSES
Am I crazy. Isn’t this LRB article soft zionist apologism? Why did I see praise of it on my TL?
It’s clear that while Pankaj Mishra might “oppose” genocide, he does not support Palestinian resistance or liberation.
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we desperately need an alternative to the dependence on philanthropy as a driver of global civil society. it’s an absurd anti-democratic situation.
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suggestion: the left needs to get rid of the word “populism.” populism to my mind is associated with Bonapartism and plebiscitary democracy, which usually ends up as anti-democratic because it cannot build alternative democratic institutions.
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i hate to admit it but so-called queer theory bores the fuck out of me
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is anyone capable of any work?
or is anyone capable of reading? if yes, what are you reading?
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i’m obsessed with a sentence that
@MarxinHell
told me that will be shaping my thinking from now on and which I must acknowledge here. “All scarcity is a scarcity of time” 💣
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a book has to be written about how human rights and “prisoners of conscience” have turned into a diplomatic currency with which states bargain over deals. commodity fetishism taken a whole new level.
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i love teaching so much and there’s nothing i resent more than how the university and schooling system have effectively destroyed it. it’s so sad to experience this everyday.
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i know that's far fetched. but it's time now to start creating chants that directly demand for a binational egalitarian state in which palestinians have citizenship and equal rights. we may be living in a revolutionary moment and so our demands must be revolutionary
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this is insane. this is insaaaaaaaneeeeeeee
After the Hamas attack on Israel, leftist protesters took the position that oppressed people can do no wrong.
But rights come with obligations, Michael Walzer writes. "What are the obligations of the oppressed and of those who act in their name?"
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this thread looks like a parody of that genre of twitter pedantry. it uses all the clever tricks of looking like you’re tearing apart another person’s argument through, masquerading this as historical accuracy, and not actually saying anything substantive.
This article/lecture is full of errors, offensive historical distortions, and glaring omissions of contextual information. While it claims to be about Palestine it gives little info about the genocide, and really just whitewashes Western complicity in both current one and Shoah
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how is this not a complete discrediting of everything that liberalism stands for? and — dare I say — how is this not treated as antisemitic?
Absolutely insane that the president of the United States just says this
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the failure of the Western Left has something to do with its inability to formulate a plausible foreign policy, which have been dominated by humanitarianism or isolationism, both have exhausted themselves.
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hello ladies and gentlemen. this is the future, we’re currently living it. daily genocidal actions streamed live for all to watch. visible destruction of human-ecological worlds, fused with announcements of holy war and techno-nihilism. this is not going to be the last time.
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we even have an arabic word for this. it’s called مزايدة. the closest translation in english i have for it is “moral oneupmanship” and it plagues leftist thinking. it is the number one source of solidarity destruction.
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what’s the use of another critique of “liberal empire” that will not do anything to save the victims?
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god please don’t make me fall in love again please please please i don’t have time for this i have APPLICATIONS and RECOMMENDATION LETTERS to panic about
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hey im moving to boston for a year next january for a postdoc inshallah, if anyone has contacts there for purposes of finding a roommate, get in touch please thank you
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one of the worst things about growing up with religion is that we don’t get to experience the sacredness of fury and anger. everything was about consolation and joy, but not enough about fury.
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he’s wrong. esoteric mysticism always played a role in the culture of theological thought despite suspicions of heresy. for example, Eckhart was always suspected of heresy but this did not stop him from playing a formative role in theology and philosophy (Hegel included).
Hegel was a Swabian Pietist theologian who was fascinated with all things Esoteric. He took Esoteric mysticism and molded it into a heretical Christian theology and, thinking himself following Plato, called it a System der Wissenschaft (system of science).
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this is your obligatory reminder there’s an Arabic adaptation of the Rocky Horror Picture Show where Frank N. Furter is inexplicably changed to Dracula and there’s a whole 20-min commentary on capitalism completely unrelated to the plot
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