In unserer Auswahl frei zug\u00e4nglicher Netzartikel in diesem Monat: querdenkende Intellektuelle.<\/p>\n
Subversion ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten ein Lieblingsziel der Pop-Linken. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek bringt den Anspruch nun auf einen neuen Tiefstand. \u00dcber Rammstein wei\u00df er in einem Interview mit \u00bbNew Statesman\u00ab zu berichten: \u00bb\u203aThey\u2019re very hard – I think they\u2019re extremely progressive. It\u2019s totally wrong to read them as almost a proto-fascist band. My god, they explicitly supported Die Linke, the leftists there, and so on. I like their extremely subversive from within, undermining of all this – you know?\u2039\u00ab (\u00bbNew Statesman<\/a>\u00ab)<\/p>\n Von ihm selbst wohl nicht verstanden, war einst auch Disco-Produzent Giorgio Moroder in subversivem Auftrag unterwegs zu Bob Dylan. Im Gegensatz zu \u017di\u017eeks Rammstein scheiterte er aber, wie einem Gespr\u00e4ch im \u00bb<\/strong>Guardian\u00ab zu entnehmen ist:<\/p>\n \u00bb<\/strong>It was actually Sylvester Stallone who asked me to ask him to sing a song for a Rambo movie. So I composed a song. I wanted him to write the lyrics, of course. I went to see him in Malibu, where he had a beautiful house. He listened to it about four times. I\u2019m not sure if he didn\u2019t like the music that much, or if he wasn\u2019t interested because of the nature of the movie, which was totally anti-Russian, anti-communist. I think he didn\u2019t feel like being involved with a movie such as Rambo. It was nice to meet him, and it could have worked, but it didn\u2019t work out.\u00ab (\u00bb<\/strong>The Guardian<\/a>\u00ab)<\/p>\n Erfolgreicher agierte einst Paul de Man. Der \u00bb<\/strong>Chronicle of Higher Education\u00ab verabs\u00e4umt nicht, neue Details (aus einem angek\u00fcndigten Buch von Evelyn Barish) \u00fcber das fr\u00fchere Leben des sp\u00e4teren Theoretikers mit seinen dekonstruktivischen Thesen \u2013 \u00bb<\/strong>De Man\u2019s stance, the stance that made him famous, was that facts were unreliable, language was slippery\u00ab \u2013 denunziatorisch in Verbindung zu setzen: \u00bb<\/strong>Perhaps the single biggest revelation of the book, which Liveright\/W.W. Norton will publish this spring, is that de Man was indeed a convicted criminal. In 1951 a judge in Belgium sentenced de Man in absentia (he had fled to the United States by then) to six years in prison for theft and fraud related to Herm\u00e8s, the publication house he created and ran. De Man had looted the funds of the company to cover his own lavish expenses. In one case, Barish writes, de Man engaged in a \u203a<\/strong>deliberate swindle\u2039<\/strong> of a family friend, fooling him into making a loan that was never repaid. All told, more than a million Belgian francs disappeared \u2013 and, before he could face creditors and courts, so did de Man.\u00ab (\u00bb<\/strong>The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>\u00ab)<\/p>\n Wenigstens im Verlagsgesch\u00e4ft funktioniert die rhetorische Subversion, m\u00f6chte die \u00bb<\/strong>H\u00f6here Erziehung\u00ab suggerieren, um vor ihr zu warnen. Vor solcher Haltung sei Rammstein vor.<\/p>\n