The 9/11 Media Circus

The State of Exception Is Our Peril

Angelus Novus (1920), a monoprint by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, using the oil transfer method he invented. Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is h…