Origins of Totalitarianism
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- In Hannah Arendt
…thinker was established by her Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which also treated 19th-century anti-Semitism, imperialism, and racism. Arendt viewed the growth of totalitarianism as the outcome of the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. She argued that totalitarian regimes, through their pursuit of raw political power and their neglect of material…
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work of Bruguera
- In Tania Bruguera
…open reading of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) in her Havana studio. The performance marked the founding of INSTAR. Once she was able to travel, Bruguera accepted a yearlong appointment as the first artist in residence for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (MOIA). As…
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