Günter Gassner
@GassnerG_
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and Design, researching antifascism, authoritarian spaces, politics of aesthetics, and queer militancy. Author of Ruined Skylines.
Bristol, Cardiff
Joined March 2019
W. Benjamin geht und schreibt im Bett durch Berlin. Eine anti-dramatische Lesung in 3 Akten. 20 Oct, 5pm, Villa Oppenheim. @PoligonalB, Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, @GassnerG_
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Austria election live: far-right Freedom party got most votes, first projections show. Terrible news. Best to Austrian anti fascists. @AntiRacismDay
@Searchlight_mag
https://t.co/HT8ZhnllWw
theguardian.com
Far-right FPÖ could become strongest force in the country for first time in postwar period
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Charlie Chaplin played a dual role in "The Great Dictator," a satirical comedy-drama film released in 1940. In the film, he portrayed both Adenoid Hynkel, a parody of Adolf Hitler, and a Jewish barber who looks nearly identical to Hynkel. The film is famous for its political
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📅 Berlin, 23.5. Die Gegenwart des #Faschismus Eine Analyse autoritärer Entwicklungen im 21. Jahrhundert, mit @Natascha_Strobl 👇 https://t.co/ezO074ySYa
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Recordings of last year's queer migration conference are now available on @velvele_media! 🎥✨ Don't miss out—also check out the 'Queer Diaspora Talks' podcast series hosted by @YenerBayramoglu & @baweraunnehir! The last episode is with my fav Berlin band Gazino Neukölln🎙️
[Panel] Queer migration: Past and Present Panelists: @Obsqueer, @kasmani_o, @SScuzzarello, @YenerBayramoglu Moderation: @anna_korteweg Organized by @TunayAltay1 in collaboration w/ @HumboldtUni & @BoellStiftung Listen via the link ⤵️ https://t.co/6HfkpACqto
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📢New paper published in #TIBG by @TaraJeyasingh (@UNSWCanberra): 'Édouard Glissant and the importance of reading well: Opacitic-reading as geographic method'. #OpenAccess
https://t.co/5KfU2Kd4Vk
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Call for Papers: Second issue of Agoriad: A journal of spatial theory Thinking with fragments: the allure of the broken, discarded, and disjointed in geography https://t.co/cYOlgLFjtA
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Come join this public event to explore the history of anti-fascism in London, from the 1970s until today, on 24 April at Bishopsgate Institute. The program includes personal testimonies by activists and a roundtable on the memorialisation of anti-fascism in London. Please share!
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At a time when so many need reminding of the contemporary purpose, function and importance of public service broadcasting/television, @RoganProduction have produced a vital documentary of an untold part of British history. #Defiance
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The community protest against the NF meeting in Southall - 23 April 1979 – a 🧵 The fascist National Front (NF) books the Town Hall for an election meeting. Martin Webster, leader of the NF: says that Southall should be demolished and replaced by an English hamlet. #Defiance
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The birth of Rock against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League – a 🧵 Eric Clapton performs drunk at the Birmingham Odeon - 5 August 1976 He singled out ‘fucking wogs’ and ‘fucking pakis ‘ - “I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. #Defiance
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🚨UPCOMING EVENT🚨 Join us Saturday, April 20 for a webinar on "Heidegger and the Left." Our panel of speakers will include @colinbodayle, Carlos L. Garrido, @DanielTutt, and moderator Jared C. Bly. We thank our friends and comrades at @MidwesternMarx for co-hosting this event!
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Critic or Translator? On Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History …
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"The most important lesson we can draw from the Situationist International today is that the history of automation is ultimately the history of class rule and its ideology materialized." https://t.co/tFSc2agqpX
proteanmag.com
Hugo de Camps Mora interviews Dominique Routhier on his new book "With and Against," the legacy of the Situationist International, and the importance of political aesthetics.
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Zum 150. Geburtstag #KarlKraus. Aus meiner Sammlung, Nr. 36. Ein Brief (7. 2.1919) von #ArnoldSchönberg an #AdolfLoos. Es ging um eine gemeinsam mit Kraus zu entwerfende Antwort auf einen Aufruf von Henri Barbusse, eine „Internationale der Geister“ wiederherzustellen“
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We're excited to announce our second online seminar of 2024: Exploring the Networked Far-Right. Join us on 17th April (13:00-14:30 BST) to hear @StephaneBaele & @JonECollins discuss their vital work examining far-right communites online. Register for free https://t.co/aMP99fOdu4
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In Österreich diskutieren Historiker·innen darüber, wie faschistisch der „Austrofaschismus“ war. In den USA diskutieren Historiker·innen darüber, ob Donald Trump ein Faschist ist. Lang aber lesenswert: https://t.co/WmRVArZGVR (via @brodnig)
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📢 Registration is now open for our first online seminar of 2024! We will be hosting the brilliant @IDonotCara & @ssbdurao on Weds 6th March (3.00-4.30pm GMT) and discussing antifascism in sport and policing in Brazil. Tickets are free & available here 👇 https://t.co/IibuOic4YQ
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