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international society of savage customs
What evil lurks in the heart of man? Maybe it doesn’t lurk, rather it dances, it teases, it flatters, it cajoles, it manipulates and end up getting its way. How? The dynamics must be complicated.Especially when evil gets under the … Continue reading
sailing against idiot winds
…Chris Hitchens would have disagreed, but the question can be posed nonetheless as to whether reason can accept Divine Revelation, the proposition that god can, and does communicate with the individual? To the believer, reason is no obstacle to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anselm kiefer, Christopher Hitchens, Contemporary Holocaust Art, Divine Revelation, Donald Kuspit, Hoffmeier Israel in Egypt, Jon Levenson, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen Dance Me to the End of Love, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sam harris The End of faith, William J. Hamblin, Yvelyne Wood Holocaust art
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tears and fears: RIP (through) holy land
Attack Jerusalem? Launching rockets on the eternal city? Imagine the irony if a Hamas rocket hits the Dome of the Rock? Recoil time to play in the rubble. Something here about Walter Benjamin’s idea of children playing in trash and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, bernard lewis, Caroline Glick Jerusalem Post, David Rubinger, Gershon Baskin, Golda Meir, Heinrich Bunting, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, thomas friedman new york times, tom wesselmann, Walter Benjamin
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grass roots
Nihilism and anarchism? If, as you read a book, you feel that the author hates you and all the fabric of your life, that his chief purposes in writing are to communicate to you his loathing and his scorn, and … Continue reading
fantasy on the life of the hybrid
The Tin Drum. At first sight this monstrous book looks as thought it might be a satire on the life of Germany during the Hitler era, the war, and the postwar boom. Its hero has a German name and thinks … Continue reading
ghosts of remembrance: of things past
The docudrama. It was awful as commercial cinema. In fact it was a form of propaganda. But in its own inscrutable way, the newsreel style, the efforts to depict reality and achieve political goals in West Germany through cinema were … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anselm kiefer, Billy Wilder, Don Siegel, Hanus Burger, Jack L. Warner, John Ford, Josh Waletzky, knox manning, Sandra Schulberg, Saul Elkins, sidney bernstein, Stuart Schulberg, the holocaust, Theodor Geisel, todesmuhlen death mills
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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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Tagged alexander mitscherlich, Alice Miller, anselm kiefer, emmanuel levinas, georg baselitz, Gunter grass, helmut middendorf, janka, Leni Riefenstahl, markus lupertz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, rebecca horn, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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when the grim reaper won’t leave
A bit problematic to be German. Still. The long arc of history is easily within an arm’s reach of the old Germany, tortured, and with a romantic sensibility of subject confronted with a bleak Germanism that marked the new realism. … Continue reading
burying the dead ends
The avant-garde revolution was over. Ironically, their work also signified the end of avant-gardism and the onset of post-modernism. The avant-garde had become history. Its contradictions, the emptiness, the triumph of form over substance, essentially its transformation into rote kitsch … Continue reading