Finitude
Climate collapse
AI acceleration
Memory technologies
Walter Benjamin
Species split
Cinema
Literary and cinema scholar Tom Cohen and returning guest, writer Lola Jusidman (producer of Angelicism01’s Film01) join NM to discuss Tom’s work and its foundational influence on the Angelicism Project on the occasion of the related seminar, “AMOC shutdown: school’s out” and the premier of Film01: Cohen/Ye/Bianca Cut.
Seminar syllabus
Seminar materials
“A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." — Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History, Thesis IX, 1940
“Angelus Novus [makes it possible] to understand a humanity that proves itself by destruction." — Walter Benjamin, “Karl Krauss,” 1931
For more:
Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols by Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, J. Willis Miller (Open Humanities Press, 2016)
Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) explained
@dissolution_seminar (IG)
@angelicismfilm01official (IG)
@mifynse Lola Jusidman (Substack)
@angelicism01 (Substack)
NM73 | Angelicism01’s Film01 w/ Lola Jusidman & Mateo Demarigny
