Jüngerian Reflections – Page 2 – Ernst Jünger … Anarch

December 24, 2010

Wie Ernst Jünger erst das iPhone erfand – How Ernst Jünger invented the iPhone

December 24, 2010

24December

Wer schon Heliopolis gelesen hat, dem wird dieser Vortrag keine Offenbarung darstellen. Der weißt schon, daß in diesem futuristichen 1949 Roman ein Gerät, das sogenannte Phonophore, das genau wie ein Smartphone funktioniert, als Accessoire jedes Bürger erscheint. Nachdem der Sprecher Jüngers Vision bestätigt hat, sieht er sich leider dazu gezwungen – vielleicht weil es schliesslich der...

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November 15, 2010

Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann anlässlich der Eröffnung „Ernst Jünger – Arbeiter am Abgrund“

In Events, Jüngerian Reflections

November 15, 2010

15November

In seiner Rede im Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach ging Staatsminister Bernd Neumann auf das Leben und Schaffen von Ernst Jünger ein. Ebenso wies er auf die besondere Bedeutung von Archiven hin und sprach das Thema Digitalisierung schriftlichen Kulturguts an. – Es gilt das gesprochene Wort. – Anrede, gerne übermittele ich die Grüße der...

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October 14, 2010

Jüngers Kriegstagebücher – a higher perspective

In Book review, Jüngerian Reflections

October 14, 2010

14October

The press has recently been been full of discussion about the publication of Ernst Jünger’s War Diaries (Kriegstagebücher), his original notes from the trenches of WWI. Above all this has provided new opportunities for the usual misuse of his works by left-wing opponents and right-wing “friends”, respectively expressing their knee-jerk critique and misguided hero worship. The...

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September 11, 2010

A new color – “Global grey”!

In Jüngerian Reflections, Video

September 11, 2010

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11September

I’m going to stray from direct reference to Ernst Jünger here, though it will be in the train of his thinking regarding global “levelization” or flattening of culture. I was in the United Nations building here last week, since I can do duty-free shopping there. Indeed, I have no other reason to go, since the place basically depresses me everytime I visit. Why? Because it becomes...

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June 1, 2010

BP oil spill – the elements unleashed and running riot

In Jüngerian Reflections

June 1, 2010

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01June

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reminded me of a chapter in Friedrich Georg Jünger’s “The Failure of Technology – Perfection without Purpose”, which I have reproduced almost completely below. I hope it may help intelligent readers who want to go deeper in understanding what has happened than is given them in the typical media or environmental analysis. In fact, I...

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May 27, 2010

“My Thing” and “God’s Thing”

In Anarch, Jüngerian Reflections

May 27, 2010

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27May

Max Stirner’s “The Ego and its Own” (Der Einziger und sein Eigentum) was a fundamental text for Ernst Jünger´s development of the figure of the Anarch. In Eumeswil, Ernst Jünger summarizes the “cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that” as being just two – two however which “suffice for thorough...

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May 17, 2010

Technology, principles and sustainability

In Jüngerian Reflections

May 17, 2010

17May

This blog entry regarding the importance of restraining principles in the exploitation of technology may seem to have little to do with the anarch or Ernst Jünger, however it did emerge from a discussion of whether Jacques Allul was an anarchist or something other. Hence I include it. (I can only imagine Ernst Jünger would agree with Allul’s ideas, since they correspond closely to his...

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March 22, 2010

The Titanic Games

In Jüngerian Reflections

March 22, 2010

22March

I was recently in Vancouver, Canada coincidentally at the same time as the Winter Olympic Games, and it occurred to me that the name Olympic Games is completely inaccurate and even dishonest. Let me explain. One of Ernst Jünger’s key symbols to characterize our post-enlightenment world is that of the titans from Greek mythology. His (and his brother Friedrich Georg Jünger’s) idea is...

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