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putin: land of toska and dousha
Russians have always had a thread of excess, showing itself strong and clear against the somber texture of their existence. Extreme activity. Extreme laziness. Extreme appetite. The extremely excessive. The extravagant Slav temperament seems to be traced to all classes … Continue reading
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Tagged Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ilya Repin, john stackhouse, john stackhouse globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Vladimir Putin, vladimir putin election 2012, zinaida serebryakova
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the sweet smell of excess
More Medvedev and Svetlana. This time they look a little better attired. Maybe the album graphics are more interesting than the album which was a bit of a dog. Why no mention for Leon Russell? What is he; chopped liver … Continue reading
a grid of paradoxes
The Middle Way. To find the way through the enigma of the middle way. Vaclav Havel was beset by various interpretations of the middle course of action; between the Maimonides view and the older Aristotlean. To be stuck between the … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander dubcek, Dostoevsky, frank zappa vaclav havel, Franz Kafka, jan patocka, lou reed vaclav havel, Milan Kundera, milos foreman, Peter C.Newman, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard, vaclav havel, vaclav havel the leaving, velvet underground vaclav havel
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Orwell: cracked mirrors and memory holes
The mental disease of imagination…Twenty-seven years after the fateful year of 1984, we are still fascinated by George Orwell’s dystopic vision of rationalism gone mad, stark raving mad. There is always the temptation to measure how cold we are willing … Continue reading
PULLING THE BEARD OF THE KING
“I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert S. Gerard, Allen Ginsberg, Anton Boisen, Ben Heppner, Charles Baudelaire, Dostoevsky, Erich Heller, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Maciunas, Goethe, Hegel, Isaac Luria, Jack Kerouac, Jacob Burckhardt, Jacques Lacan, Jake Heggie, James Gillray, James Joyce, John Lennon, Kafka, Karl Marx, Martin Wasserman, Michael Garfield, Michel Foucault, Peter Orlovsky, Renana Elran, Robbe-Grillet, Rudolf Otto, Sanford L. Drob, Shakespeare, Steve Smith, The Grateful Dead, The Last Poets, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Viktor Frankl, Vladimir Nabokov, Yoko Ono
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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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ANARCHIST PAVING COMPANY
When I die let the black rag fly raven falling from the sky. Let the black flag lie on bones and skin that long last night as I enter in. For out of black soul’s night have stirred dawn’s cold … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Hundert, Alexander Herzen, Alexandr Herzen, Anarchism, Anarchism history, Anarchist movement, Black Bloc, Chris Bowen, Chris Bowen Test Their Logik, Christopher Durang, Christopher Hitchens, Colin Freeze Globe and Mail, Donald Dewey, Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky The Possessed, Dwight MacDonald, Eugene Delacroix, Frank Gunn Canadian Press, Fyodor Dostoevsky, George Woodcock, Ivan Ivanov, James Guillaume, Johann Most, Mikail Bakunin, Naomi Klein, Negativland, Pierre Joseph Proudhon, Robert E. Weir, Robert Zecker, Sergei Nechaev
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