Shake your hips
Tag Archives: David Mairowitz
science of fictions of zimzum
Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged aline kominsky, Bob Dylan, David Mairowitz, Drama of Works, Franz Kafka, Frederick Crews, Gershom Scholem, Gnosticism, Greil Marcus, peter kuper, Puppet Kafka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Crumb, Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold
Leave a comment
brothers in arms: miles from nowhere
Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Caravaggio, David Mairowitz, felice bauer, Franz Kafka, George Steiner, Gilles Deleuze, Hannah Arendt, John Updike, Judith Butler, Marc Chagall, Max Brod, Milena Jesenska, Robert Crumb, Sander L. Gilman, Walter Benjamin
Leave a comment
kafka by the pound : surprise pack
Weights and Measures. Precision. A commodity worth its weight in shekels. Better yet, take the talens of silver and gold. The trial he could not have foreseen. The scales of justice where his literary manuscripts, letters, diverse scribblings, and so … Continue reading
BEFORE THE LAW WITH GHOSTS ON TRIAL
The outbreak of the French Revolution, and the Reign of Terror, made reforming ideas suspect among the English governing class. Jeremy Bentham allowed his time and energy to be dispersed among a number of different projects. Among them was one … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Before The Law, David Mairowitz, Edwin Muir, Etienne Dumont, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Orwell, Jacques Derrida, Jeremy Bentham, Kafka The Castle, Kirchberger, Nietzsche, Project Mayhem, Robert Crumb, The Trial, Willa Muir
Leave a comment
COMMENTS