Tag Archives: Alice Miller

the saturday evening you’re toast

Is disavowal repressing something unbearable, or at least sublimating it something more palatable and socially acceptable? What often arises is the concept of innocence, a byproduct of this process of disavowal and reluctance to own up and acknowledge what one … Continue reading

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guess whose coming to dinner?

Does our modern society indicative of a lowering of human freedom and a degradation of the environment or does our science charged culture represent an emancipation from primitive conflict and ignorance? … From an article on researching authenticity and populism. … Continue reading

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kids play: just tickety-boo

There is the theory of Walter Benjamin on the discarded object, the former fetish object of capitalist consumer culture that becomes re-animated and re-contextualized after attaining junk and discard status. Transformed into a toy.  It becomes re-emancipated with revolutionary potential … Continue reading

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obey

Obey.  If you put them in a line, will they just keep going? Are they brought up that way? Obedience.  The question might not be centered around perverse pleasures and sadism, but of placing oneself in view of the all … Continue reading

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client and customer: freebies on the family

Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading

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violence and loss: dead moon fever

The beauty in ambivalence? Theodor Adorno said that after Auschwitz it was impossible to write poetry. But, is attempting to make beautiful art irresponsible? Is it responsible to invoke, to posit, monumentalism to unyielding hopelessness; to imply that nihilism is … Continue reading

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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions

“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading

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GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD

Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading

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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME

“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading

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TINKLING THE IVORY CADENZA

He played with a devilish brio at the piano. With his ”Etudes of Transcendental Execution”, he transformed the whole art of piano playing. The fierce onrush of trills, skips, and runs, the sudden blows and stormy flourishes, shattered the last … Continue reading

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