Kali Tribune

Tagged: Branko Malić

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Conspirology

Cult of Enlightenment and the Conspiracy Culture

The proverbial “conspiracy theorist” slur more often than not hits the mark. But does this exculpate the one throwing it about from further investigation? We think not. In this podcast we’ll take a dip into history of conspiracy theories, beginning with Augustin Barruel, to offer an opinion why modern academics, journalists and pop intellectuals tend to lose their powers of discernment when conspiracy theories are on the menu. Also we lay out some historical facts about inception of antisemitic conspiracy theories, which are mistakenly conflated with original ideas of Barruel and his early fellow travelers, from the so called “Simonini letter” to “Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion”. In this context we offer some updates on scholarship of the subject, which is reinvigorated by some recent works of historians of ideas.

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Analysis

On Principles and Ideologies: A New Year’s Clean Up

Kali Tribune wishes you ponderous and non-ideological holidays. We talk about difference between principles and ideology, peculiarity of internet mediated intellectual viruses, impossibility of total political theory and other light subjects to lead KT over the threshold of the new year.

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Essay / Knowledge

Suicide Bombers of Modernity

Is there a substantial difference between revolutionaries of the Left and Right? Or, conversely, is there an even deeper identity between nihilists of traditional and progressive bent? What does it mean to be “against the modern world”? KT offers some answers.

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Analysis

“Ethnic Bleachers of the World, Unite!”: On Vacant Minds and Internet Censorship

As internet is pulsing with gloomy stories about coming censorship, especially to step upon those nodes wailing about “white genocide”, Kali Tribune offers an opinion on the matter, based on the quite real, albeit probably not white enough, genocides from the recent past. Also, we touch upon globalist policies that are seldom mentioned outside the conspiracist circles, but are non the less real and also, seemingly paradoxically, quite apt to be named genocidal themselves. Finally, we discuss the problem of combating narrative with the truth and difficulties that come with it, making censorship perhaps the most viable option for some corners of the internet.

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Knowledge

Beyond the Horizon: Plotinus on Eternity and Time

Kali Tribune’s Department for Philosophy in conjunction with Laboratory of Broken Mics and Fractured English proudly presents an interpretative reading of Ennead III, 7. “On Eternity and Time” by Plotinus. The purpose of our inquiry is to demonstrate a peculiarities of the method of what we call “traditional metaphysics”.

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Knowledge

Nothing on the Horizon: Introductory Passages of Heidegger’s “Being and Time”

KT’s Department for Sanitary Measures in Modern Philosophy commences the reading of passages of introductory section of Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time”. As Heidegger is often mentioned on these pages – and in quite negative light – we are obliged to provide some insights based on his own words. This video can serve as a companion piece for everybody lacking formal education in contemporary philosophy and following standard KT critiques of modern and postmodern intellectual deviations, where Heidegger’s name, strangely enough, often seems to pop up.

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Ask Kali

Directives to Commentariat: Answers to Comments and Questions

KT answers to moist poignant and interesting comments and questions. The subjects covered range from the idea of total knowledge or “world image”, sustainable development, Club of Rome founding document “Predicament of Mankind” to discussion of whether there’s only one Globalization, the reach of Russian influence in alt media, nature of “alternative research” and its inherent nihilism, video game nature of “alt media” covering the war in Syria, mirage of geopolitics, etc.