
The Politics of Withdrawal with Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois
Hermitix
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Is There Such a Thing as a Return?
I don't think it's that withdrawal necessarily entails nostalgia or melancholy. There can be an aspect, of course, of nostalgia. But I think that kind of nostalgia is only a sort of like driver behind the withdrawal. So you know, once you engage in withdrawal or even fantasize right about withdrawal, you can either end up in, you know, a far right anarchist collective or you can become a complete Haida Garion and retreat into the Black Forest. Both are possible. And I think that's also why it's so important to do research on the topic. We're kind of brook progressive thinking or disconnective thinking that is generally more leftist aligns with radical right ideas of
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