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DANTE & DIVINE COMEDY of EXILE

”in every man … a demon lies hidden — the demon of rage, the demon of lustful heat at the screams of the tortured victim, the demon of lawlessness let off the chain. (The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky)” Dante lived in … Continue reading

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IMPRESSIONS ABANDONING TO THE LIGHT

In the countryside of northern France he made a garden. And there, Claude Monet, as he grew old and his eyesight failed him, perceived and painted sunlight and water, trees and flowers, as no one ever had before. He literally … Continue reading

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THE POWER OF GAZE

Creating means revealing the ultimate duality. The duality of art itself. As Gilles Deleuze said, ” Aesthetics suffer from harrowing duality. It designates the theory of sensibility, on the one hand, as a form of possible experience; on the other, … Continue reading

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FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN

The Western world is an ancient system that repeatedly fails to reform itself. That place where the human quality will be experienced as simply as it should be is probably the African continent itself. What cannot be avoided, is for … Continue reading

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TIGER HAMLET, BRAND CONTAMINATION, DESDEMONA …

Ophelia and golf’s 19 th Hole. Call it brand intoxication. Imagine Tiger Woods as a handbag or a gladrag. Can you tell the difference between a luxury handbag and a fake? A new  Associate professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan … Continue reading

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