Kai Weber > Recent Status Updates

„Meine Neigung, vor allem auf Reisen, in jedem Gegenstand und jedem Gebäude Hieroglyphen zu vermuten, die es zu entschlüsseln gilt, geht mir manchmal selbst auf die Nerven. Aber als wacher Phänomenologe, der es sich angewöhnt hat, Oberflächen zu lesen wie Texte, kann ich mich nur mühsam auf das unbeschwerte, nichtinterpretierende Schauen zurückziehen.“ (p. 452)

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Note for a later review: It is interesting to see a current 21st century discourse on the future political order of Afghanistan mirrored in a 19th century book on Afghanistan: It is the question of how to deal with the traditional tribal structure of the political system. Already Elphinstone concluded that taking Afghanistan's specific situation into account it would be wrong to impose a Western political system.

After the first few pages of Cory Doctorow's "For the Win" I think I'm going to drop it. Does anybody disagree and think I should go on?