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banality between the sheets: sucking on being

It has to be remembered that in the pecking order of European jewry before WWII, Germany was the absolute top of the hierarchy.There was no secular educational infrastructure to speak of in the East.  The brethren from the Eastern ghettos … Continue reading

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walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between

Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading

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life is a silent scream

Ingrid Pitt. For some the horror was never over. Torn between building a life while repressing the horrors experienced. As a child sent to the Stutthof Concentration camp. How can one survive? The only thing that makes sense are the … Continue reading

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all the butcher’s helpers

In socio critical terms, the emphasis is always to focus on the victims.Perhaps our relation to them. All is enhanced and detracted by the problematics of memory. Very little stares squarely at the locus of the problem which is to … Continue reading

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the trouble with normal: beware the ordinary

How are we to explain the behavior of the perpetrators of murder? Often, the factual record is not in doubt, but the historical and moral implications remain at best, ambiguous. It is obvious that our own society and our mass … Continue reading

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evil, what evil?

Can the world be mended of fragmentation? Is it our destiny to be treading water between connection, unity and oneness and highly radical, morbid and death infused darkness … de-realization, disorientation, and fragmentation. But also Klein’s epigraph to The Second … Continue reading

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memory and remembrance: disrupting comfortable convention

Artist Steve Reich and his recording label Nonesuch have been raked over the proverbial coals this past week since previewing artwork for Reich’s WTC 9/11 recording by the Kronos Quartet. It depicts the second plane going into WTC based on … Continue reading

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traces of wiped-out existences

how is holocaust art received in the land “of the perpetrators”? Well that depends… In a way, its the politics of remembrance and memory.Or at least the problematics.  Memory is often the theme with the focus not on what is … Continue reading

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boris lurie: distrubing the ceremony

How was holocaust themed art received in the “land of the perpetrators”? Well,  For over two decades everyone tried to forget. It was a cultural amnesia and the path of least resistance.  Make money. Raise your family. And don’t go … Continue reading

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decoys of perception: poetry after …..

Could poetry be written after Auschwitz? Theodor Adorno’s famous assertion did not necessarily mean that no poetry could be created about the holocaust. Its a touchy grey zone; a metaphorical voyage of the damned where like Odysseus you tie yourself … Continue reading

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