Means Without End by Giorgio Agamben

Author:Giorgio Agamben
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press

Walpurgis Night

If there is in our century a writer with whom Debord might agree to be compared, this writer would be Karl Kraus. Nobody has been able to bring to light the hidden laws of the spectacle as Kraus did in his obstinate struggle against journalists — "in these loud times which boom with the horrible symphony of actions which produce reports and of reports which cause actions."5 And if someone were to imagine something analogous to the voice-over that in Debord's films runs alongside the exposure of that desert of rubble which is the spectacle, nothing would be more appropriate than Kraus's voice. A voice that—in those public lectures whose charm Elias Canetti has described — finds and lays bare the intimate and ferocious anarchy of triumphant capitalism in Offenbach's operetta.

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