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Risk and Extortion LXXXVI: The Four Riders of the Apocalypse
(Revelation 6:1-8) In the book of Revelations (Apocalypse), four riders are described as heralds of the end of the world as we know it. They can be used as tools… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXXV: The Excre-Mentalization of Public Life
There is ample evidence that the overlaps between corporatism, the military industrial complex, nationalism, consumerism and the technofeudalistic operations of social media platforms have created a global structure of class… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXXIV: Enshittification and Kakistocracy
The excre-mentalization of public life The term “enshittification” was coined and popularized by tech journalist Casey Newton, to describe a predictable and frustrating lifecycle experienced by users of digital… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXXIII: The Velvet Glove is wearing thin
When on Friday 8. August 2025, the German Chancellor and former executive of BlackRock, Friedrich Merz announced that Germany will no longer approve German weapons exports for use in the… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXXI: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semantic, Anti-Somatic 5
Once again: Against Identity-Thinking The concept of the self-hating Jew operates in the same framework as the accusatory performativity of deploying the word anti-Semitism. Both Zionists and anti-Semites deploy this… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXX: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semantic, Anti-Somatic 4
The Semantic Watershed The realization of the Holocaust after the end of the Second World War constituted a semantic watershed in the usage of the term “anti-Semitism”: From a self-affirmed… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXIX: Autobiographical Intermezzo
What Anti-Semtism meant in the 1970s With the semantic expansion of anti-Semitism abandoning its historical consistency and now embracing every possible “critique of Israel”, the accusation of being anti-Semitic has… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVIII: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Semantic, Anti-Somatic 3
Semantics matter, but they require clear historical analysis. Anti-Semitism is an ideological product of geo-political and economic dynamics affecting Europe in the 19th Century. As I have argued in previous… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVII: Anti-Semitic – Anti-Semantic – Anti-Somatic 2
Zionism as metabolized anti-Semitism In 1896 Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State). A year later, the first Zionist congress was held in Basel, which was the official birth… Read more.
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Risk and Extortion LXXVI: Anti-Semitic – Anti-Semantic – Anti-Somatic 1
A European Phenomenon The word Semite – derived from the biblical reference (Genesis 10) to Shem, one of the sons of Noah – was coined by German historian August Ludwig… Read more.
Disaffected Sociology 