![]() ![]() Filtered through Funder's own keen perspective, these dramatic tales highlight the courage that ordinary people can display in torturous circumstances. ![]() For instance, Miriam Weber, a slight woman with a""surprisingly big nicotine-stained voice,"" was placed in solitary confinement at the age of 16 for printing and distributing protest leaflets she was caught again during a dramatic nighttime attempt to go over the Wall. ![]() Funder’s Stasiland (Courtesy: Text Publishing) Anna Funder ‘s Stasiland, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, is one of those books that can be reviewed from multiple angles, and I know that when I get to the end of this review I’m going to be sorry about the. Funder, an Australian writer, international lawyer and TV and radio producer, visiting Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall, finds herself captivated by stories of people who resisted the Stasi-moving stories that she collects in her first book, which was shortlisted for two literary awards in Australia. Anna Funder, Stasiland (Review) Aug/ whisperinggums. ![]() It knew who your visitors were, it knew whom you telephoned, and it knew if your wife slept around."" This was the fearsome Stasi, the Ministry for State Security of the late and unlamented German Democratic Republic. ""Its job was to know everything about everyone, using any means it chose. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Primal power of Life is growing inside her, pushing her closer to the end of her Culling. The attacks on the Shadowlands are increasing, and when Kolis summons them to Court, a whole new risk becomes apparent. But memories of their shared pleasure and unrivaled desire are a siren’s call impossible to resist.Īnd as Sera begins to realize that she wants to be more than a Consort in name only, the danger surrounding them intensifies. Sera cannot afford to fall for the tortured Primal, not when a life no longer bound to a destiny she never wanted is more attainable than ever. Nyktos has a plan, though, and as they work together, the last thing they need is the undeniable, scorching passion that continues to ignite between them. She will do anything to end Kolis, the false King of Gods, and his tyrannical rule of Iliseeum, thus stopping the threat he poses to the mortal realm. Surrounded by those distrustful of her, all Sera has is her duty. ![]() ![]() The truth about Sera’s plan is out, shattering the fragile trust forged between her and Nyktos. The only one who can save Sera now is the one she spent her life planning to kill. Armentrout comes book two in her Flesh and Fire series… ![]() From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. ![]() ![]() CR: The New Centennial Review, 5.3, (2005). ![]() In a way, therefore, the State of Exception is an exploration or analysis of the ways in which this killing machine of exceptionalism works. The Killing Machine of Exception: Sovereignty, Law, and Play in Agambens State of Exception. ![]() When the exception becomes the rule, it results, argues Agamben, not only in the appropriation of the legislative or judiciary power by the executive, the suspension of the constitution, and the extension and encroachment of the military’s wartime authority into the civic sphere, but also in a state of global civil war, which “allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system”. Giorgio Agamben is one of the leading figures in Italian and contemporary continental philosophy. ![]() The events of 9/11, the War on Terror, and the successive decrees and acts authorizing fingerprinting, interrogation, and indefinite detention of suspects in terrorist activities, all testify to Agamben’s prophetic portrayal of contemporary politics in which the state of exception-normally a provisional attempt to deal with political exigencies- has become a permanent practice or paradigm of government. Giorgio Agamben’s slender but profound monograph on the state of exception is an intervention into a world that is becoming more and more exceptionalist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Glass Bead Game is my second Hesse novel, and I picked this one because it can loosely be called a science-fiction novel, and because it led to Hesse's winning of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. I was introduced to Herman Hesse by my Swabian friend, Thomas, who bought a copy of an English translation of his novel Narcissus and Goldmund during a visit to the medieval monastery of Maulbronn, where Hesse had studied as a youth and which was the setting for much of that novel (under the name Mariabronn). "The lesser man sees in the greater man as much as he can see." TLDR: 4 of 5 for a thought provoking book, though perhaps not the most riveting read. ![]() |