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The Angel of History

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Uploaded by on Sep 8, 2008

I was reading W. G. Sebald's "On the Natural History of Destruction" for the third or fourth time--it should be required reading for everyone on earth--and was devastated as always when I got to where he quotes Walter Benjamin's words about the angel of history. As ineffectual as I know such gestures to be, I began to put together this clip in my head. For those of you who know Kubrick's Strangelove, you'll be annoyed or amused that I quote him. For those who don't, I urge you to watch the film immediately.

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  • Thanks for checking in, friend. If we forget that bit of history, we are doomed to repeat it.

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  • Sebald, Benjamin, Debord.

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