Wieder einmal heute danke an Tobias Wimbauer für die Weiterleitung dieses Rezensions …. B KULTURWISSENSCHAFTEN BD LITERATUR UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT BDBA Deutsche Literatur Personale Informationsmittel Ernst JÜNGER AUSSTELLUNGSKATALOG 11-3 Ernst Jünger: Arbeiter am Abgrund; [zur Ausstellung “Ernst Jünger. Arbeiter am Abgrund”, Literaturmuseum der Moderne, Marbach am Neckar, 7...
“The problem is an economic system in need of more energy than it can find safely, and too willing to take risks. So one has to see the coal mine disaster, the BP oil spill and the Japan tragedy as all part of the next phase of the post-industrial world. The catastrophes are not unlike the sinking of the Titanic, (which EJ saw so clearly) which threw into relief the naive technical optimism of...
Other commentators have already speculated on the analogies between Jünger’s vision of Zapparoni’s technology in the “Glass Bees” with our internet. They have been rather vague allusions; now with the Stuxnet affair I get a chance to be more specific about one particular materialization in our world of Jünger’s “glass bees”: as computer viruses, trojans...
If you don’t speak German well enough to read the two Jünger biographies that came out more or less simultaneously in 2007, then here at least is a good English review of Helmuth Kiesel’s one, Ernst Jünger. Die Biographie. It is by Eliah M. Bures, Department of History, University of California Berkeley. HTML version PDF print version (Mr. Bures will talk about Jünger April 23 in...
Einen guten Dokumentarfilm von 1985 über Ernst Jünger habe ich kürzlich entdeckt – “90 Verweht” heißt er in Andeutung auf dem 90 Geburtstag Ernst Jüngers in selbem Jahr. Eigentlich gefällt mir dieses besser als das andere, das man schon langem im Internet finden kann (Ich widerspreche mir nicht, 1977).
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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...
Quoted from Eumeswil, regarding Max Stirner’s concept of “Der Einziger”: “Now just what are the cardinal points or the axioms of Stirner’s system, if one cares to call it that? There are only two, but they suffice for thorough reflection: 1. That is not My business. 2. Nothing is more important than I.” For any readers able to transcend the usual reaction to...
It is in Swedish with English subtitles, but the interviews with Jünger are in the original German, and they are a significant part of the whole. Enjoy. From the producer´s website: 102 Years in the Heart of Europe: a portrait of Ernst Jünger Documentary Duration 58min. Director Jesper Wachtmeister / Solaris Filmproduktion Writer Björn Cederberg Producer Fredrik Martin © Fredrik Martin & Co...
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...
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...
In a site devoted to Ernst Jünger, it is unforgivable that I have never mentioned the remarkable work of the Association Eumeswil in Florence, Italy. As one of the only groups world-wide that regularly organizes conferences and other events on Ernst Jünger, they deserve front-page treatment here. This oversight will be redressed in the future, as I have nothing but respect for their efforts there...
Not a bad documentary on Ernst Jünger, consisting for once – thank goodness! – mostly of him speaking, and not others commenting on him. All five parts are below.
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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...
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...
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...
