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too many dicks not enough jane
Its the use of Bertolt Brecht technique of montage imposed on the early style flash-mob style editing of Disney found in Oswald the Rabbit. The process of introducing non-natural elements that have no natural relation to what is being played … Continue reading
the braun of a new age
Apple design and uncanny similarities with post-war design of Braun products. coincidence? Not at all and perfectly comprehensible. The marriage of Apple and Braun design is also uncannily like Werner Fassbinder’s post-war triology, in particular the Marriage of Maria Braun. … Continue reading
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Tagged apple design, Bertolt Brecht, dieter rams, dieter rams braun, fassbinder marriage of maria braun, jonathan ive, laurene powell, michael spindler apple, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Steve Jobs, steve kroft, walter isaacson
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case of mistaken identity: but not in my backyard
Mistaken identity and false pretense. Mistaken identity has always been the source for arriving at some rich existential meanings.But, behind fervent religious belief, is it the will to meaning in the sense of Victor Frankl, or some twisted ideology arising … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Lynch, Gideon Levy Haaretz, Hegel Philosopher, ingrid peritz, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, jewish taliban, John Zorn, john zorn circle maker, lev tahor sect, marc ribot, menachem kahana, Michel Foucault, patrick martin globe and mail, schreber, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin, warren jeffs
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like a rock: not quite white hope
“Men give meaning to their lives by realizing. . . creative values, by achieving tasks,” wrote Viktor Frankl. The will-to-meaning, a push to articulate the vague, foggy but lighted material of sustenance, was more basic and essential to Frankl than … Continue reading
full chalk circle
There was a sense of existential desperation to this quintessentially German artist. Death infection was always lurking in the work of Bertolt Brecht, often the fatalistic embodiment of existential truth. This lurking triumph of death, the dance of death, may … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, Bertolt Brecht, dieter hacker, Donald Kuspit, elvira bach, georg baselitz, Harold Rosenberg, Hegel Philosopher, helmut middendorf, martin disler, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, walter ulbricht
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on the road: serenading mickey
Lotte Lenya:The very next day, Joseph Goebbels banned any more performances of Der Silbersee on account of that ballad. A friend who had been arrested got word to Kurt that he must leave Berlin at once – his name was … Continue reading
hit him with your rhythm stick
…After an appearance before the House Un-American Committee in 1947, Brecht went directly to Switzerland where his reputation seemed to be reviving, and when the regime in East Berlin offered him a theater of his own and a subsidy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Kellner, joerg immendorff, jorg immendorff, karl korsch, kent williams painting, korsch, markus lupertz, Rep. John Parnell Thomas, Walter Benjamin, william empsom
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feeling it in the neck
Lotte Lenya:Anti-Semitism always existed in Germany. I wasn’t aware of it at first – when you’re young, you aren’t so aware. But I wasn’t blind to it, either, especially after Mahagonny. One time, I was walking down the street with … Continue reading
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Tagged anti semitism, Bertolt Brecht, carl a. rossi, Kurt Weill, lotte lenya, Marianne Faithfull
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too long in exile: worn out welcome
Brecht in exile. He wrote movie scripts and tried to sell them but, except for his scenario for Hangmen Also Die, Brecht sold nothing. He seems to have persistently missed the fact that a great many of the ideas he … Continue reading
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Tagged anselm kiefer, Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, charles laughton, Charlie Chaplin, clifford odets, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth hauptmann, Fritz Lang, georg baselitz, HUAC hearings, jaroslav hacek, John Fuegi, lotte lenya, Peter Lorre
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ballad of a thin man with stogie
You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky
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