Mystoria (a preview)

ASTORIA, NYC, AUGUST 2011

Music: Meister der Kultur (Trilectic) - (c) 2001 by Jewlia Eisenberg

Video (c) 2010 by Sasha Skenderija

MEISTER DER KULTUR [Master of Culture]
(Jewlia Eisenberg's interpretation of excerpts from Walter Benjamin's Moscow Diaries)

[Asja Lacis says:]

That capitalism sucked, we didn't even have to discuss.
He was against capitalism and had lost faith in the Tolstoyan idea of moral self-development.
He was for a violent overthrow of the capitalist state.
I met many intellectuals in Germany at that time who thought like Benjamin.

Often we would have the following dialogue.
I would say:
"You are smart, you have a field of knowledge, you have an education,
but you have no material foundation for existence!"

Walter was silent.
Walter was silent.

[Asja continues:]

And I would continue:

"You know, in Riga, I was poor too.
Why?
Because I was struggling against the bourgeois state and they brought all the forces of capital out to fight me.
But where do you stand, Master of Culture?
Where do you stand, Master of Culture?

Your brother is in the communist party
Why aren't you?
Why aren't you?

Where do you stand, Master of Culture?
Where do you stand, Master of Culture?
Why not you?
Why not you?

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