Soziale Verwerfung Bloß um nicht »soziale Ungerechtigkeiten« oder »soziale Ungleichheit« sagen zu müssen, spricht man von »Verwerfungen«. Es wird verschleiert, dass es Akteure gibt, die dafür verantwortlich sind. Dass die einen viel haben und die anderen wenig; dass jene über Privilegien verfügen, die den anderen weggenommen werden, erscheint als eine Art Naturphänomen – ein geologischer […]
Wörterbuch der Gegenwart
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American Dream or Nightmare?
How the signal for revolt was sent before the internet, & the telephone: Newport 1839 In early November 1839 Chartists marched to Newport South Wales in what some have seen as an attempt at a rising. It failed as the crack regiment of the British Army shot dead some of the Chartists. Some of the […]
How the signal for revolt was sent before the internet & the telephone: Newport 1839
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Dirty old town!
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King Claudius by Cavafy
This poem by Cavafy (in my translation) has an unconventional (to say the least) take on the character of Hamlet’s uncle Claudius and the plot of Shakespeare’s play: My minds turns to distant places.I walk along the streets of Elsinore,and round its squares, and I rememberits saddest story, that unfortunate kingkilled by his nephewfor imaginary […]
King Claudius by Cavafy
This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 20 July 1974. The heavy fighting left many dead and the island split between Greek Cypriots in the south and the Turkish occupied north, with peace being maintained by a UN Buffer Zone between them. In ‘Spoon sweet’ by the Cyrpiot poet, […]
The 1974 Turkish invasion reflected in Cypriot poetry
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