Samantha Rose Hill
Books: Hannah Arendt and What Remains
Representation: The Wylie Agency
Substack: samantharosehill.substack.com
- Racism is and has always been central to fascist political ideology.
- Thank you to everyone who donated and attended the reading of Hannah Arendt's essay "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship" last night. Here's the recording: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition! Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are... 20% discount code: HUMAN20
- Take a journey through Hannah Arendt's life and work with me this February at the JTA, where we'll explore the key concepts and ideas that animate Arendt's work through a close reading of The Human Condition! Registration: my-jewish-learning.teachable.com/p/hannah-are... 20% discount code: HUMAN20
- In response to the unfolding terror in Minnesota I wanted to create a space to come together. I’m hosting a book club on Hannah Arendt’s essay Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship next Tuesday to raise money for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota samantharosehill.substack.com/p/a-special-bo
- Teaching Kafka tonight
- Louise Glück
- “Defensive shots” is Orwellian language for a gang of masked armed state agents firing at least ten shots into a man pinned face-down in the street. They don't need a reason, they'll make one up after the fact. Political lies become common speech to cover up crimes.
- This is how fascism comes to America. It’s the endless events, day after day, until one day you wake up in a different country. Anti-immigrant rhetoric, censorship, attacks on universities, masked terror squads murdering people in the streets, enemy lists, denaturalization, camps
- Macron Davos 2026 directed by Godard
- "A lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history." — Hannah Arendt
- Favorites thinkers, writers, and philosophers of desire? (living)
- Only one other person in history has accepted a Nobel prize as a gesture of thanks
- "Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Meet Brontë She loves speaking French, ear scratches, and sleeping.
- From the ever brilliant and courageous Louise Adler who is a champion of writers, free speech, and democratic values in dark times www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- “A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient.” — Hannah Arendt
- "No one has the right to obey." — Hannah Arendt
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- And the follow-up point is that because imperialism requires constant expansion, it is inherently incompatible with stable political institutions. It causes and relies on political instability at home. Not unrelated to unaccountable state actors shooting citizens in the street.
- Hannah Arendt’s point in Imperialism was that there is no end to imperialism. It goes on and on. The nation-state is rooted in imperialism and imperialism is rooted in expansionism. Trump is doubling down on 19th-century nation-state politics, and doing the once quiet part aloud.
- When you order wood in a small French village and they leave it at your door
- “That’s a suspicious amount of books.” 22 years of notebooks in one suitcase
- Friedrich Nietzsche, For the new year:
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- My favorite definition of love Rainer Maria Rilke:
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- Hannah Arendt with her mother Martha Sara Cohn
- Frank O'Hara
- "Boredom is the threshold to great deeds." — Walter Benjamin
- "We've grown very poor in threshold experiences." — Walter Benjamin
- Arrived separately together Looking forward to reading!
- I have been reading and teaching Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History for nearly twenty years and today I finally felt the revolutionary argument in the work. Against historicism, against orthodox historical materialism, toward revolutionary historical materialism—waiting.
- Read Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil with me! Especially if you’re feeling a bit at sea, adrift between the no-longer and not-yet A monument to a moment in time written through meditations on time as Broch imagined the final hours of Virgil’s life. samantharosehill.substack.com/p/invitation-t
- "The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule." — Walter Benjamin
- Trump cancels humanities grants to subsidize building statues to humanities scholars, including, apparently, Hannah Arendt, who wrote an entire book about how fascists—like trump—come to power in part by trying to censor what people can read, write, and think about.
- Tuberculosis is coming back People are afraid of vaccines No more food safety regulations They want to increase industrial factory production All while engaging in imperial wars of expansion People calling for revolution Welcome to the 19th century! Can't wait for the barricades.
- "The true goal of Fascism was only to seize power and establish the Fascist 'elite' as uncontested ruler over the country." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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- Just say nein. Avoid opera houses. Don't listen to jazz. Have a good weekend.
- "Laughter helps one to find a place in the world, but ironically, which is to say, without selling one’s soul to it." — Hannah Arendt
- Cue Trump supporters to praise his superior tariff cleverness, accepting their losses in the name of being on the right side of history
- Next Sunday evening, April 13, 8pm Join Genese Grill and me to discuss Hannah Arendt's poems substack.com/home/post/p-...
- In case anyone questions the importance of the audience: It's not just that news became entertainment. It's also that people stopped knowing what they were applauding. It's the moment when every performance began receiving a standing O. When people began clapping for themselves.
- "I am not tired, or much tired, just exhausted." — Hannah Arendt
- Read Gertrude Stein with me!
- Hi Everyone! I thought I was cross-posting, but I wasn't. So, I've added what I posted on X from my travels. Going to fix the problem. Thank you for being here. - SH
- In the fall of 1940 when Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt parted ways in Marseilles he entrusted her with a suitcase of his writings. Among the papers was a copy of Theses on the Philosophy of History Join me for a class on Benjamin's life and last work roundtable.org/live-courses/h
- Ein Märchen von Hannah Arendt: Die weisen Tiere It's in the archive at the Library of Congress... yet to be translated into English. www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/die-weisen-t...
