Re: <nettime> the silence on the rising fascism

[Stefan Heidenreich via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear Florian,

I beg to disagree. The attack on art institutions comes from the very 
center, and there especially from parties once considered "left", like 
the Green party. It was long in preparation - for example, by pushing 
for the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which is now 
used to condemn every criticism of Israel's politics as anti-semitic.

The turn to repressive action has more to do with a neo-conservative 
obsession with US hegemony, which in Germany finds its most fervent 
defenders in the Green party - ever since Fischer aligned himself with 
Madeline Albright.

The neo-conservative center also governs EU-Policy (Borell's 'Jungle' 
mirrors Robert Kagans 'Jungle') and took hold in most of the centrist 
parties. Faced with collapse of their claims for supremacy (moral, 
Western, military, economic ...), they turn to repression against any 
deviating opinion. That culture would be in the crosshairs became 
already clear with the meltdown of German art criticism at the last 
Documenta.

The more their projects collapse (Ukraine, Israel, and forthcoming 
China/Taiwan), the more repression is to be expected. Watch out for an 
interesting year to come.

Best
Stefan



Am 21.12.23 um 00:25 schrieb Felix Stalder via nettime-l:
> The attack on art institutions is part of a larger right-wing attack
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