AW: <nettime> The Weird Global Media Event and the Tactical Intellectual 1/4

["Frank Hartmann" <frank.hartmann@chello.at>]

Ken Wark wrote:

> as Walter Benjamin said

Why these posturing quotes - like Benjamin over and over again? To put it in
other words: what would todays well funded scholars do if they should miss
these critical backups? As well known, Benjamin failed in academic
scholarship and never did hold an academic position, and Prof. Wiesengrund
a.k.a. Adorno only had a very marginal one after returning from the
"Grandhotel Abgrund"...

so why, these posturing quotes?

Frank

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