Tag Archives: Boris Cyrulnik

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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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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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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old wild men: sandwiches of them

See it as a matrix of sensations.Mutable. Unfixed.Unhinged. Something of the child rubbing against the unknown world of the adult. Sometimes we have to go back to reach beyond the future, to be as children, and approach the objects of … Continue reading

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Family Trees: Cut a few gnarly branches here and there

A family tree, to many, is a precious link that provides roots for millions of the rootless. It seems all men and women of European origin cling to their ancestors as assiduously as would any mandarin of ancient China. At … Continue reading

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