#Philosophy #STS #Anders: "Günther Anders (Stern)—first husband of Hannah Arendt; second cousin of Walter Benjamin; student of Husserl and Heidegger; roommate of Marcuse; friend of Brecht; rival of Adorno; attendant of Kojève’s lectures in Paris; co-translator with Levinas; antifascist novelist; anti-atomic-bomb activist; philosopher of technology, of apocalypse, of the antiquatedness of human beings; composer; script-writer; costume designer; a Jew who resigned from the Jewish community; a member of the 1967 International War Crimes Tribunal (alongside Jean-Paul Sartre and Stokely Carmichael) which condemned the war in Vietnam as genocide—died penniless in Vienna next to Freud’s office in 1992. He lived 90 years in a world barreling from one catastrophe to next, surviving a century which straddled the unbridgeable chasm opened up by the singular event of August 6, 1945, when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and mankind proved its novel capacity for complete annihilation. This day, according to Anders, broke history into two qualitatively distinct periods, the time of the before, and the time of the end. It is only now, after mankind has proven its capacity for destruction, that we really do live in the end times. But living in the end times does not mean experiencing the end. We must fight, Anders pleads, to keep the end times endless. There is no going back to a time in which the possibility of destruction has been erased, forgotten, dismantled."
https://brooklynrail.org/2024/07/field-notes/Welcome-to-the-Anderscene