 | Gary Smith - 1989 - 332 sider
...seizes upon the inherent contradictions of the present and propels them to a higher social formation. If "the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule," [. . .] "then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency"... | |
 | Rey Chow - 230 sider
...dem wir leben, die Regel ist. Wir mussen zu einem Begtiff der Geschichte kommen, der dem entspticht. {The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the excepoon but the rule. We must atrain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight.... | |
 | Francis Barker - 1993 - 276 sider
...'condition', it is only so in as much as it coheres with Benjamin's sense of the violence of the continuum: 'the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the...in which we live is not the exception but the rule' (1973, p. 259). And that is very far from a 'merely' aesthetic, or representational sense of crisis,... | |
 | Kobena Mercer - 1994 - 356 sider
...surviving, and thriving, in conditions of crisis and transition. More to the point, to the extent that "the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the...which we live is not the exception but the rule," (Benjamin, l973 [l940]: 259), the emergence of new insights on the question of "identity" from black... | |
 | Patrick Williams, Laura Chrisman - 1994 - 586 sider
...tradition of the oppressed, as Walter Benjamin suggests; it is the language of a revolutionary awareness that 'the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a concept of history that is in keeping with this insight.' And the state of emergency is also always... | |
 | J. M. Bernstein - 1994 - 336 sider
...seizes upon the inherent contradictions of the present and propels them to a higher social formation. If "the 'state of emergency' in which we live is not the exception but the rule," [. . .] "then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency"... | |
 | William E. Scheuerman - 1997 - 348 sider
...and Rusche's study appeared in the United States, was not altogether off the mark when claiming that "the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the 'state of emergency,' " like that which had by then become "normal" in fascistdominated Europe, "is the rule." 20 Benjamin's... | |
 | Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori, Robin Kirk - 1995 - 548 sider
...Rosaldo, Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), p. 169. 10 "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the...which we live is not the exception but the rule," wrote Benjamin in a famous passage from his "Theses on the Philosophy of History," in Illuminations:... | |
 | Rafael Pèrez-Torres - 1995 - 356 sider
...employed in the borderlands that is Chicano culture. 4 Locality, Locotes, and the Politics of Displacement The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the...in which we live is not the exception but the rule. - Walter Benjamin BORN OUT OF THE DISSOLUTION of homeland represented by the borderlands, the various... | |
 | John Devine - 1996 - 291 sider
..."chronic state of emergency," as Michael Taussig does (1992, 1 3), citing Walter Benjamin's statement that "the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the...in which we live is not the exception but the rule" (1968, 257). To view violence as the norm rather than as the exception in late modernity is not a way... | |
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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule. 
