Tag Archives: Bonfire of the Vanities

futurism: hygiene for the unwashed

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Dave

In the parade scene of Fellini’s Amarcord,the director seems to surgically probe at the roots of Italian fascism. The evidence seems to indicate that even strong-armed fascism cannot control the id. In fact, its swollen and pussy ideology and exaggerated … Continue reading →

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CALAMITY OF CONTENTMENT

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Dave

”The civilisation which surrounded Savonarola on every side was a civilisation which had already taken the wrong turn, the turn that leads to endless inventions and no discoveries, in which new things grow old with confounding rapidity, but in which … Continue reading →

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