Curfewed nights of FATA on April 14, 2018‘Articulating the past does not mean knowing it as it really was but taking control of the memory in the moment of danger,’ wrote Walter Benjamin. The oppressed always draw upon the memory and poetry of the past. This backwards leap is a dialectical one as Benjamin understood it: first towards the past, breaking the […]
In praise of the PTM on April 5, 2018‘Articulating the past does not mean knowing it as it really was but taking control of the memory in the moment of danger,’ wrote Walter Benjamin in the wake of fascism’s rise to power. It is the tradition of the oppressed to draw upon the memory and poetry of the past. This backwards leap is […]