Can anyone help me out on this? I vaguely recall a quote by Walter Benjamin, to the effect of aiming to produce work of no use to fascists. I used to know the reference and the exact phrase, but fucked if I can remember either. I’d like both.
Some googling turned up a blog discussion including a paraphrase of “Benjamin’s goal: to write in such a way that your words are of no use to fascism.”
note to self:
Remember this link on nominalizations
http://raymondpward.typepad.com/rainman2/2004/09/words_ending_in.html
Comment by Nate — April 5, 2006 @ 4:47 am