Kali Tribune

Category: Analysis

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Analysis

Quality of Death: The Alfie Evans Case and Euthanasia as Future

The case of British toddler Alfie Evans’ predicament and relentless struggle of his parents and good deal of world wide public to transfer him out of Britain captivated the attention of the masses for some time. Now this will, inevitably, wane but Alfie Evans’ end, where institutions of state – i.e. courts – prevented attempted treatment in other country due to concerns about, quote: “Little Alfie’s quality of life”, presents what seems to us at KT to be a landmark point in the spiritual atmosphere of our day and age. Why and how this is so, we’ll demonstrate based on reading of the court ruling on Alfie Evans and rejection of appeal to it. As is always the case with euthanasia and politics pushing it forward, its about legislative system first and foremost and then, consequently, with the radical transformation of society.

This transformation is – you guessed it – not for the better.

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Analysis

Eastern Europe and Politics of Dissolution

A perspective we could, albeit quite loosely, denote as “East European viewpoint” is to a large extent absent from, mostly anglophone, internet media and internet mediated intellectual scene. So how does East Europe defend from what we on KT call “politics of dissolution”? Come and see …

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Analysis

Third World Bore: How by Being Offline You Can Prevent the World War

It’s happening! Third World War is at hand! Well … just as long as your internet connection is stable. In this podcast we delve into further depths of fringe internet movements and peculiar personal qualities their adherents develop; qualities that are seemingly a reiteration of old radicalism, but are in fact something quite novel.

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Analysis

One Eyed Men: Metapolitics and Metaphysics

In this podcast we focus on some notable qualities of our contemporary politico-philosophical prophets and their misconceptions. We argue that there indeed are few notable, yet quite unsavory, thinkers who correctly read the signs of the times, which gives them a significant edge over their opponents. However, their philosophical notions are based on – radically wrong – understanding of metaphysics as metapolitics.

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Analysis / Politics

Die Furie der Zerstörung: Slavoj Žižek’s Reinvention of Revolutionary Terror

In this video we analyze Slavoj Žižek’s proposition to reinvent the “divine violence” of “classical” revolutionary, laid out in his essay on Robespierre. We point out Slavoj’s rhetorical tricks by which he obfuscates his, rather blatant, appropriation of the thesis that Revolution (a.k.a. “Event”) without terror is “decaffeinated”, i.e. not really revolutionary at all. Also, we lay out Žižek’s proposal of “revolutionary subject” as an essentially “inhuman human” – a virtual being brought into existence by depersonalization – the proverbial “individuum” which, for some reason, pops up every now and then into our focus when we analyze ideas of postmodern totalitarians. We conclude by demonstrating how Žižek’s clown like demeanour and rhetorical tricks hide quite, if only potentially, dangerous man.

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Analysis / Politics

Living out the Half Life: Clandestine Services and (Post)Socialist Society

It is close to thirty years now from the fall of the Berlin wall. Yet have the implosion of real-socialist state really been complete? Is it really gone? In this podcast we’ll argue that this, for the most part, is not the case. If we try to understand what socialism really was, we end up realizing that as such, it is still present. The essence that survived the crumbling of political and economical system is that element of socialist project that informed the society – created a peculiar mentality shared by most if not all post-socialist nations: it’s clandestine services.

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Analysis / Essay / Politics

Echomaniacs: Alternative Media as Postmodern Propaganda pt.1

Alternative media … truth movement … citizen journalists … sounds good? Well … we’ll see about that. In this two part analysis we lay out what seems to be the true nature of alt media as a new form of propaganda – a veritable self-propaganda – ripe for internet age. The specimen we focus on are pro-regime pro-Syria activists and intellectuals and their understanding of reality as exemplified by their treatment of other historical events: in this case war in the aftermath of dissolution of Yugoslavia. We claim that the whole batch of alt media indicates to a rather sinister tendency – an attempt to erase the past; an attempt that, now that the means of virtualization are ready at hand, could just succeed.

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Analysis / Politics

Totalitarianism for Housewives

The common notion of totalitarianism tends to present the broad canvas of all-power state from which we should be wary. Yet, as with all things, totalitarianism begins at home. In this video, we’ll depict how  even housewives can develop the totalitarian mentality with no great effort; and how every argument for normalcy, on the contrary, requires supreme efforts.