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Fire Alarm

Michael Löwy

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Naomi Klein recommends it
And the third book is a book called Fire Alarm, Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History by Michael Löwy. Um and Walter Benjamin is the is this is the text that he wrote um right before he took his own life fleeing the Gestapo in 1940. Um and it gets at this idea of the way history doesn't repeat, but compounds in Benjamin's term, [music] piling wreckage upon wreckage. Naomi Klein, thank you very much. Thank you so much, Ezra.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.