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Mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid in ways that put them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward, but the false assumption of closure enables those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends only when ju...

In Justice as an Option, Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political economic realities of our era and dreaming of a return to a more equitable time, we need to grapple with them head on. Meister does just that, asking if the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world can be made to serve justice and equality. Boldly disproving the perce...

In Justice as an Option, Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political economic realities of our era and dreaming of a return to a more equitable time, we need to grapple with them head on. Meister does just that, asking if the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world can be made to serve justice and equality. Boldly disproving the perce...

Crafting the Façade präsentiert die Ergebnisse eines internationalen Kooperationsprojekts der Universität Liechtenstein, der Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow und der Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam. Drei Jahre lange wurden verschiedenste Aspekte des Themas Fassade behandelt, von historischen Entwicklungslinien über Techniken des Zusammenfügens bis hin zu Fragen des Materials. Neben Entwurfsprojekten von Studierenden, der theore...

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Merging examples from literature and history, Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He challenges the empty moral logic of 'never again' or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence that is broken once evil is remembered for what it was.