SEVENTY-SEVEN years after Freedom at Midnight, the “open skies of history” beckon to us. What do they point to? Not Walter Benjamin’s “angel of history.” But Kala Bhairava. Benjamin’s famous essay, ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’ in the original German, first translated into English and published in Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt (1969), is where … Continue reading "The Open Skies of History"

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