In the course of preparing some brief comments on the [Universal Basic Income](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income) for another site, I decided to write up my attempt to clarify some of the politics behind the current debates about UBI as a demand and as a policy. This is adapte...
To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory... Or consider Benjamin's famous image of the "angel of history": His face is turned towards the past. Wherewesee the appearance of a chain of events,hesees one single...
derived from its concrete manifestations. That is, given recorded history, the historian attempts to discern the large, invisible social forces that generated these events. It is a process of constructing a story about the past, or as Benjaminputs it: ...