Wendelin Brühwiler
@wendelin_b
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Historian Wrote a book about trademarks
Winterthur/Bern, CH
Joined September 2011
In the piece, I take issue with longstanding misreadings of Anderson's work that are by now treated as common knowledge ("twee", etc.), and try to see his later films for what they are: the probing work of an American nostalgist in an era when that's a very hard thing to be.
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Ich wurde nie mit der Hausaufgabe, mir zu überlegen, ob man erkenntnistheoretisch ohne eine Annahme von Identität zwischen Subjekt und Objekt auskommt, in die Ferien geschickt. Kein Wunder, dass aus mir nichts wird.
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A world governed by exceptions, double standards, or competing spheres of influence is a more dangerous world. Read full statement on the situation in Venezuela:
coe.int
Secrétaire Général Strasbourg 4 janvier 2026
“International law is universal, or it is meaningless. Democracy is resilient when it is freely chosen, institutionally protected, and grounded in legality,” said SG @alain_berset in a statement on the situation in Venezuela. Read full statement:
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My quick take on the legality of the Venezuela invasion.
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'In some ways, we see a resurgence of US power in the 2010's, both because the US becomes a major oil and gas producer, but also because the financial crash significantly increases US financial and monetary power.'
"If we think of the relationship between the US an Europe and bracket China out of it, then we can see that from 2008 [...] a quite significant economic divergence occured betw the US and Europe. It's not actually that complicated a story.'' https://t.co/zNBLLl1Vgp
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"If we think of the relationship between the US an Europe and bracket China out of it, then we can see that from 2008 [...] a quite significant economic divergence occured betw the US and Europe. It's not actually that complicated a story.'' https://t.co/zNBLLl1Vgp
@HelenHet20
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'Schon Ende 1915 sieht [Weber], dass der als schneller Sieg gedachte Krieg in die Länge gezogen wird nicht obwohl, sondern weil er nicht zu finanzieren ist.' https://t.co/nCDqSZypg6
@sebastian
duncker-humblot.de
Ein Forum für die Wissenschaft seit 1798.
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AI Chatbots Are Poisoning Research Archives With Fake Citations „the appearance of legitimacy to non-existent journals is like the logical end product of existing trends“
rollingstone.com
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Eine eigenartige Analyse von Diedrich Diederichsen, die am ehesten noch schlüssig zu lesen ist vor dem Hintergrund einer effektiven Provinzialisierung deutscher Diskussionen (und Verhältnisse). https://t.co/9jytg5DzPq
artforum.com
Critic Diedrich Diederichsen on political repression and precarity in the arts sector.
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Paul Johann Anselm Feuerbach: Ueber den Umgang mit gegnerischen Twitterern (Lehrbuch des gemeinen in Deutschland gültigen peinlichen Rechts; Zwölfte Auflage - Giessen 1836)
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'Like any instrument of culture, [the magazine] operates through an alternating process of attention and neglect. We pay attention to writers whose work displays a sense of control and a mastery with language, to prose that simply gives us pleasure.' https://t.co/YGXVy4CP8r
thenation.com
A conversation with Thomas Meaney, the editor of Granta, about literature and the left.
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"Wissenschaft ist keine Meinung" Interview für die Zeitschrift "Good Impact", zusammen mit Corina Strößner, Greifswald.
https://t.co/bqft9LcPj7"
academia.edu
Wissenschaft ist keine Meinung (Interview zusammen mit Corina Strößner), August 2025
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Ab Mittwoch im Kino: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER von Paul Thomas Anderson https://t.co/gXk15nRC0h via @warnerbros__1
sennhausersfilmblog.ch
Nach sechzehn Jahren untertauchen weiss Bombenbauer Bob (Leonardo Di Caprio) das richtige Passwort nicht mehr. Also hängt er fluchend am Telefon wie ein Wutbürger in der Endlosschleife seiner...
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"Der Postmodernismus lehrt, den eigenen Gefühlen mehr zu vertrauen als wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen." I mean, da is nicht alles einfach falsch. Manches ist auch noch doof.
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'It’s by reviews that critics stay current, [...] that the discussion can get past chitchat and reflect the substance and the merits of the works at hand.'
newyorker.com
Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.
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'[...] and yet, only if thought is able to find the genuinely political element hidden within the clandestinity of singular existence will politics be able to emerge from its abstractness, and individual biography from its idiocy.'
Giorgio Agamben on his friendship with Guy Debord and the elusive clandestinity of political life. https://t.co/M7L2G9NPjf
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