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short lease: after this commercial break
The industry of memory. A industry setting boundaries on how we remember and the nature of interpretation. Ultimately, you can’t really portray real life tragedy. Even the original experiences of the holocaust victims, those closest to near death experiences are … Continue reading
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Tagged albert hackett, Ann Frank, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bruno Schulz, Elie Wiesel, frances goodrich, Gene Wilder, holocaust industry, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Finkelstein, Otto Frank, Primo Levi, sharon dogar
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leaving the absence intact
Monuments. There are monuments of the holocaust all over Germany. They are like crosses with the suffering Jesus allover the backroads of Quebec in the 1960’s. Mourn through the monuments and let them do the heavy lifting. We can’t really … Continue reading
the diary of anne mamet
David Manet’s Anne Frank is another version about present engagement seeking to encounter the past. The point is still a bitterness of history and to tug and cajole the forgotten into the present in a struggle against selective memory and … Continue reading
like a bone in the throat
Coincidence. She is in a room beside Adolf Hitler…. Anne Frank is about our current struggle to engage the past shorn from nostalgia, disavowal and kitsch. Stuck in the throat. A chicken bone stuck in the throat. A wish bone … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Anne Frank Madame Tussaud Berlin, Anne Frank Museum, Diary of Anne Frank, eva schloss, Francine Prose, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Pablo Picasso, Philip Roth, Primo Levi
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not the same dust
There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anne Frank, Anne Frank Museum, Bach, bosch prodigal son, Hieronymous Bosch, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, madame tussaud berlin, meyer levin, Otto Frank, Sigmund Freud, Wassily Kandinsky, westerbork
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where shall i find thee?
It seems like nonsense anointing this writer as the torchbearer for Jewish writing. To be a Jewish writer you have to actually have a connection with Judaism. Otherwise what is left is a “culturally” jewish writer or a Jewish writer … Continue reading
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Tagged a.m. klein, alfred flechtheim, Anne Frank, boris lurie, Chaim Potok, Hieronymous Bosch, Howard Jacobson, Irving Layton, Michael Lewis, Nathan Englander, Otto Dix, Otto Frank, wilfred bion
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the idealist: ordinary procedure and abnormal situation
The media is full of stories about “systematic risk” to our financial system and efforts to put “firewalls” around potential contagions from spreading, but the idea of systematic risk with regard to social relations within a country and the real … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank, Claude Lanzmann, gerald reitlinger, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, holocaust studies, inside hanna's suitcase, larry weinstein, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Norman Finkelstein, Raul Hilberg, Sean Penn, sean penn this must be the place, the holocaust, Theodor Adorno
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The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters
Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Alonso, Amelia Bassano, Anne Frank, Baudelaire Jones, Beth Schelle, Bobby Seale, Chris Rock, D.W. Griffith, Graeme Dalling, Huckleberry Finn, Huey Newton, Mark Twain, Mike Dyson, Richard Pryor, Samuel Clemens, tabatha Southey, Todd Boyd
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