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Классический текст известного левого медиатеоретика, ярко выраженного медиаоптимиста Ханса Магнуса Энцесбергера, давшего импульс знаменитой полемике с Жаном Бодрийяром о политическом измерении массмедиа, позволяет понять, насколько критика последним квази-марксистской медиатеории зависима от центральных положений своего viza-viz.

Nicht aus der politischen Zentralperspektive der Macht, sondern von den Rändern her eröffnet Enzensherger unseren Blick auf ein »Europa der Wünsche«, das seine Zukunft vielleicht noch nicht hinter sich hat. In seinem Epilog, einer imaginären Reportage aus dem Jahre 2006, entwirft Enzensherger eine ironische Utopie: das Bild einer Halbinsel, die »von der Differenz«…

Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher: he sets his class boring problems and won't let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically to life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can amaze and fascinate, where maths is nothing like the dreary, difficult process that so many of us dread. The Number Devil knows how to make maths devilishly simple.

Twelve-year-old Robert hates his maths teacher: he sets his class boring problems and won’t let them use their calculators. Then in his dreams Robert meets the Number Devil, who brings the subject magically to life, illustrating with wit and charm a world in which numbers can amaze and fascinate, where maths is nothing like the dreary, difficult process that so many…

Enzensberger's disillusioned travel diary based on his wanderings through six European countries is an acerbically witty look at a continent beset by corruption, shadow economies, discredited political parties, and laboring under a crazy-quilt of special-interest groups. This German essayist ( Politics and Crime ) and poet finds the Swedes docile, conformist, touched by historical innocence. His sarcastic sketch of Italy lightly mocks a people obsessed with status and intrigue. In Portugal, he contemplates the stolid natives' passive sabotage that undermines capitalist efficiency. A Polish woman tells him: "Feminism is a detested aberration! Our men worship us, it's true . . . and that's the source of our power." In Hungary, he sees a people stagnating because the political system won't tolerate needed economic reforms. "Madrid is about as festive as Moscow or Houston," the author quips. These sharply illuminating vignettes gauge the social and political realities of each country with a perspicacity rare in travel writing.
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