Tag Archives: Adolph Eichmann

hannah and her surplus enjoyment

Posted on December 8, 2012 by Dave

It was always playing around the fringes of the “dark times.” Like carrying matches in a coal mine waiting for the canary to sing. Arendt walked into a Jerusalem courtroom disappointed that the mental case in the glass box was … Continue reading →

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one moment sir

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dave

In the human heart, is there a place that cannot be corrupted, a safe zone, a voice of conscience embedded within our DNA that acts as an underlying reason, giving meaning to our existence or is this sentimental drivel, say … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Adolf Eichmann capture, Adolph Eichmann, Agnieszka holland, Erich Fromm, Hannah Arendt, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Martin Buber, Max Horkheimer, Norman Rockwell, Peter Z. Malkin, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

the great explainer

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Dave

How is it possible that a Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman is declared by the American army to be mentally unfit for military duty while an out-and-out mental case like Adolf Eichmann is judged “normal” by six Israeli psychiatrist. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, eichmann trial, gwyneth Feynman, Hannah Arendt, Lyle Mays, michelle feynman, Ralph Leighton, Raul Hilberg, Richard Feynman, Stanley Milgram, Steve Collins, Sylvia Posner, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

nixon: “local cops on the beat”

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Dave

The question of peace in the Middle East has many dimensions. Obviously, preferable to war, but peace is not an absolute value.In any event the winds seems to blow westerly.It’s a bit vague, but I remember not long before Yitzhak … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, cornell capa, Hannah Arendt, Max Horkheimer, micha bar-am, Noam Chomsky, paul schraeder photographer, six day war, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, yitzhak rabin | Leave a comment

zizek: the sound of normal

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Dave

Going reel to real with the unknown knowns.It is also a form of containment of the truly perverse under the comforting auspices of the normal. In the same way, it much easier to imagine the end of the world than … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, ben atlas, Elfriede Jelinek, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hannah Arendt, Hegel, Hegel Philosopher, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, jeremy jennings, rebecca mead, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

it can’t happen here

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Dave

Its called the Wheel of Conscience. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, it sits at Pier 21 at the port of Halifax and commemorates a number of issues. Much like war memorials in their role in actually redeeming and condoning and perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Bernie Farber, children, Children of Lidice, Daniel Libeskind, David Rubinger, Elie Wiesel, Gandhi, Irving Abella, Jason Kenney, Jennifer Peto, Julie Spergel, Marek Edelman, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Martin Luther King, Norman Finkelstein | Leave a comment

LITERALLY EATING OUR SPIRITS

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

Since ancient times, when sickly children were left outside to die from exposure, euthanasia has been practiced, debated or condemned by various societies. Much of it involves around shortage of food and elitist thinking such as the economist Malthus. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Al Pacino, Alex Carrel, Darwin, Dr. Brandt Eugenics, Elise Erhard, George Orwell, Goebbels, Hannah Arendt, Henry Kissinger, Hieronymous Bosch, jack Kevorkian, Jay Lamonica, John Trudell, Malthus, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel, Robert Lifton, Robert Proctor, W.R. Lennox | Leave a comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →

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Paris Trout Fishing with Stanley Milgram

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Dave

“Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Blue Velvet, David Lynch, Dennis Hopper, Dr. Thomas Blass, Hannah Arendt, Ian Johnston, Paris Trout, Paul Dexter, Peter Dexter, Stanley Milgram, Thomas Blass | Leave a comment

The Banality of Forgiveness

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Dave

His protagonist may be a sympathetic person, engaging, affable and charming; but he is also a murderer, an assasin and may even have enjoyed the thrill of execution at the time the killings were carried out. Is this young man … Continue reading →