To see the debt of Nikolaus von Kues (Nicolas Cusanus, Nicolaus de Cusa) to Meister Eckhart, it perhaps suffices for the casual reader to compare yesterday's post here to the selection translated below, this being the primary purpose of presenting the two texts...
The following selected extracts from Meister Eckhart’s extremely fecund Expositio sancti Evangelii secundum Iohannem have been picked because, while ostensibly working through the difference between justice and the just, they do so using theoretical tools of...
With the swift decision to evict the Occupy camp that has spent nine months at the foot of the European Central Bank's Eurotower, the peaceful protest appears to be entering another juncture of resistance against the city authorities, who have once again shown...
One week after the Blockupy protests the Blockupy Alliance has concluded that the event was on balance a success – despite the ban. So much so, that the activists have announced their return to Frankfurt, and to turn it into what the German left call a “Wendland”, referring to the Free Republic of Wendland, a protest camp established in Gorleben, Germany on 3 May 1980 to protest against the establishment of a radioactive waste dump there.
Although almost all Blockupy actions were recently banned by the authorities – the organisers will not be discouraged: “We have decided in the alliance that this goes on,” said the regional chairman of the Left Party (Die Linke), Ulrich Wilken, on Thursday in Wiesbaden. In the autumn, a congress critical of capitalism in Frankfurt is being planned.
Hold your mouse Locals in the Bahnhofsviertel showed their support
22:10 CET: The centre right Zeit newspaper is less than impressed with the policing overkill: Taking the Blockupy events' expiration as a benchmark to assess the city's hard line, it is difficult to understand: even with a few more permitted events, with less security...
23.38 CET: Napoleon once said: "you should never disturb the enemy when he is the middle of making a mistake". This seems to adequately describe today's Blockupy activities in which targeted and pertinent Blockupy action simply offered a leitmotif for the furious,...
23;32 CET: We close today's blog with a link to the excellent photo slideshow of Sterneck. 21:58 CET: One cannot doubt the importance of today's protests and their successfulness. What occurred in the Paulsplatz in particular had been declared officially and legally...
21:45 CET: as we enter an unseasonably cold night, thoughts turn to tomorrow's activism. We're going to sign off the blog for today. Thanks for reading. (above) Water cannon stand ready between Eschenheimer Tor and Hauptwache. 20:55 CET: there are now about 100...
The unsustainable unconstitutionality of the total shutdown of Blockupy is beginning to manifest itself. This evening (15 May) the Police HQ in Frankfurt declared that all person-specific exclusion orders relating to the Blockupy protests on 16-19 May, which banned...