View this email in your browser (http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e982eaf5cc0cc4d9bc74823c3&id=df6b969c7a&e=0d5dccca45) Art In The Face Of Radical Evil * A vacation at The Air Inn Venice, CA 18-28 May 2014 Ed Fornieles Kristin Luke Renzo Martens Christopher Kulendran Thomas [This] attack against the species is the work of the species... Personal innocence, as deep as it may be, counts for nothing in the face of this forced solidarity with the species as carrier of evil, of death, of fire. ‡ (http://theairinnvenice.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e982eaf5cc0cc4d9bc74823c3&id=396ced86cd&e=0d5dccca45) * ‡ (http://theairinnvenice.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e982eaf5cc0cc4d9bc74823c3&id=4596abd39c&e=0d5dccca45) * Dionys Mascolo, Autour d’un effort de mémoire: Sur une lettre de Robert Antelme (Paris: Maurice Nadeau, 1987). Dionys Mascolo (1916–1997) was a writer and committed intellectual and Marguerite Duras’s second husband. He and Georges Beauchamp rescued her first husband, Robert Antelme, from Dachau in 1945. Two years later, Antelme published L’espèce humaine (The Human Race), his account of life in the concentration camp, which is also a philosophical meditation on the absolute unity of the human species. What Antelme discovered through his experience in the camp is that when the political, “positive,” emancipatory concept of human kind is destroyed, physical survival and moral dignity have to be recovered from the “almost biological claim of belonging to the human species.” (L’espèce humaine [Paris: Gallimard, 1957]) With this cursory reference to Mascolo and Antelme — I could also have called on Primo Levi’s If This Is a Man (1947) — I want to make clear that my position is not an anti-humanist one but one that acknowledges that humanism died at Dachau, Auschwitz, and Treblinka. I don’t care what name will be given to the ethical anthropology our times need (preferably neither “neo-humanism” nor “post-humanism” — both are untruthful and ridiculous), but one thing is sure: since we are not finished with the human condition (pace the cyborg and other fantasies), we must think that condition anew, reckoning with the scorched earth the dreadful twentieth century has bequeathed us.
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