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call of the wild: frozen delirium
Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading
romance with terror
To acknowledge the power of the irrational. A kind of spiritual revolt of unhappy souls who in a negative sense become overwhelmed with the powers of ideology and terror, producing the perfect recipe for what Hannah Arendt defined as the … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Winslow Homer
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arendt: spooked horse syndrome
Hannah Arendt was certainly not the first person to mediate on the problem and ramifications of thoughtless evil. As opposed to the cunning, conscious and coherent variety. Her reflections of course, were not entirely understood, or else appropriated to serve diverse … Continue reading
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Tagged David Satter, Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, Max Beckmann, Philip Guston, Yves Klein
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