At Spore in Berlin, the weekend was titled CANCELLED CULTURE.
Deborah Feldman was speaking & said:
IT LIBERATED ME.
I HAD BEEN CULTIVATING A VOCABULARY THAT HELPS GERMANS FEEL COMFORTABLE.
I THOUGHT WHAT A SUCKY WAY TO MAKE ART.
NOW I GET TO BE DIFFICULT & CONTROVERSIAL.
THE MARGINS IS WHERE POWERFUL SPEECH HAPPENS IF WE ARE NOT HOLDING BACK, ARGUES FELDMAN AT SPORE, 30.11.24
She argues that:
Germans in media and culture are secured by their rhetoric of anti-anti-semitism
Those who cling to privilege keep the competition small
German arts looks increasingly outwards
The way to keep any person of minority backround out is to use this rhetoric
Or not?
Deborah Feldman has questions for us.
NEWLY INDEPENDENT COLONIALIZED COUNTRIES WERE SILENCED BY CATERING TO SELECTIVE MEMORY
WE WORSHIPPED HOLOCAUST MEMORY CULTUE
LIKE YOU CAN HAVE ONE OR THE OTHER AND WE HAVE CHOSEN THIS ONE
THE MEMORY OF ONE CRIME WAS HELD UP AGAINST THE MEMORIES OF OTHER CRIMES
TO SILENCE THE GREATER VOICE OF THE OPPRESSED
TO USE THIS MEMORY TO SUBSUME ALL OTHER MEMORIES
AND ANYTHING THAT IMPACTS HOW WE WORSHIP MUST BE SILENCED, RECAPS DEBORAH FELDMAN AT SPORE, 30.11.24
Inclusion was still controlled by the german system of privilege argues Deborah Feldman.
When people say Ach in Berlin nothing is German anymore:
What they are saying between the lines is not "I want to be surrounded by people like me"
What they are saying is: I am afraid there is a limited amount of things to have access to and I want to keep this access from sharing
When they come really close to being post-national, actually they don't want it, explains Deborah Feldman.
The return of nationalism misunderstands sharing & scarcity.
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