#livingdeath

[lepertamar]

"IN 1838, THE LEFT WING HEGELIAN THINKER, KARL Gutzkow, raised the image of the Jew and Judaism as it was shaped by the "Jewish Question"--that is, by the question of whether or not Jews should be politically emancipated and admitted as citizens to the modern nation-state. He posed the question in the following dramatic terms:

Ahasverus [the eternal, wandering Jew] is the tragic consequence of Jewish hopes. There is embodied so painfully in this individual just that which the Jews wish collectively for themselves. There is in Judaism despair because though they would gladly die, they cannot. Certainly, the stubborn clinging to life by the Jews is a tragedy among their misfortunes. A messianic hope, which cannot be relinquished by even the most enlightened and purified Jews, tethers them to a bleak existence. … For Judaism has never had the urge to self-destruction [Selbstvernichtung]. It has always been greedy to preserve and maintain itself for a triumphant future. Ahasverus' tragic fate is not his violent and unsuccessful search for death, but rather his exhausted dusk-watch, his outliving of himself, his obsolescence. Time itself always remains young: new peoples arise, new heroes, new empires. Only Ahasverus stays on, a living corpse, a dead man who has not yet died.

This image of the Jewish people as a "living corpse" is a representation that haunts the very formulation of the Jewish Question, not only--but especially--in Germany. Can the Jews as a people, as a nation, as a race, and/or as a religion be incorporated into the German nation-state? As indicated by the phrases that describe the Jews as an "Ahasverus," a "dead man who has not yet died," Gutzkow represents the tragedy of the Jews as the prolongation and obsolescence of their existence, not as their "search for death." While a given thinker--such as Gutzkow, Hegel, or Schopenhauer--might support the civil emancipation of Jews, the consequences of this image--the trope of embodied livingdeath--for the political status of the Jews goes well beyond and, even, dialectically negates any argument for their emancipation. Any "solution" to the Jewish question, therefore, must not prolong their separate existence. They must be utterly incorporated into the nation-state."

-- Susan Shapiro, "The Uncanny Jew: A Brief History of an Image"

[ijakollamsworld]

I like Meaningful n Melodious Gazals very much. * Oh the Giver of Life! Please listen. I have lost all my interest with this world, as I am having only a LivingDeath here. ജീവദാതാവ�� കേൾക്കൂ..എനിക്ക് ഈ ലോകത്തോടുള്ള എല്ലാ താൽപര്യവും നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നതിനാൽ ഞാനിവിടെ മരിച്ചു ജീവിക്കുകയാണ്. * Narration, Background Music, Singer n Video : Doctor Starling * IJA-KOLLAM *

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[davidpicts2020-blog]

The only thing worse than the walking dead? The living ones. ☠ Dive into 'Living Death' and see for yourself! #LivingDeath #DavidMusser #ZombieApocalypse #Survival #MustRead

[horrorauth]

The only thing worse than the walking dead? The living ones. ☠ Dive into 'Living Death' and see for yourself! #LivingDeath #DavidMusser #ZombieApocalypse #Survival #MustRead

[livingdeathdiary]

This is the diary of someone with severe ME. For those unfamiliar ME stands for Myalgic Emcephalomyelitis it is a neuroimmunological disease affecting over 30 million people worldwide. Severe ME refers to patients with ME who are housebound and mostly bedbound. I am completely bedbound and depend on IV fluids.

The defining symptom of ME is PENE or post exertional neuroimmune exhaustion. PENE happens whenever someone with ME "overexerts." The more PENE you experience the worse you get. The last thing I did to trigger PENE was eat some bread with my mum. In other words, if you dare to live, the disease progresses.

To prevent the progression of my disease I spend every day in a dark room resting. I recieve IV fluids through a central line in my chest and take a carefully crafted set of over 20 medications and supplements. I can watch videos, but nothing too exciting. I can talk, but not get emotional. Every action must be accounted for in my balance sheet. Every piece of ATP accounted for.

Then of course the pain. The daily constant migraines. The light, noise, and skin hypersensitivity. The acid burning muscles. The aching joints. The spasms. The stabbing neuropathy. These too take energy to endure. Energy I can't afford.

This is my existance of living death. The girl who once inhabited this body, a girl you will get to know perhaps, is no more. She died a slow painful death. Now I write to you from the living death of severe ME. Not to teach or to shed light or whatever other BS. No. I do my advocacy elsewhere. Simply because even ghosts it seems want to be heard. Because this existance makes you want to shout and curse into the void and you dear reader, if you even exist, you are my void.

[donaghue]

X-MAS PROJECT - Bangin’ Round the X-mas Tree 1985 (Earthshaker) VG+/VG+

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[jayengrave]

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[wroughtironlace]

#livingdeath https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz6NlSgHINb/?igshid=s5bn57162fh8

[thethinkingvoid]

The Ice cold water, took my dad away.

Sometimes life seems like its crashing, 

in the water you had stopped thrashing.

dead man living you might be, 

is my father in there I can’t see.

[davidpicts2020-blog]

A dying man with a new reason to live. A young woman clinging to hope. Can they rewrite their destinies in a world devoured by the undead? Unleash the action of #LivingDeath. You won't want to put it down. Available from all major bookstores. #horror #thriller #mustread

[horrorauth]

A dying man with a new reason to live. A young woman clinging to hope. Can they rewrite their destinies in a world devoured by the undead? Unleash the action of #LivingDeath. You won't want to put it down. Available from all major bookstores. #horror #thriller #mustread

[shereewrites]

To all the momma's out there with wounds. I love you. Xoxo ❤️😘😘 #mothersday #brokenheart #bestrong #iknowyourpain #estranged #livingdeath https://www.instagram.com/shereewrites/p/BxYYZdCBIha/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=t9r9vdh7eqze

[aeirs-moved]

starting to write poetry again was one of the best decisions i’ve made in quarantine tbh

[sefasbestos]

An unreleased song of ours. Super proud of this one and it’s well different for us

www.fallchildren.bandcamp.com

[whitelionsage]

I promise to post all types of weird ancient sacred liberative stuff in the face of cement-faced fascism