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Tag Archives: Douglas Kellner
on the road: serenading mickey
Lotte Lenya:The very next day, Joseph Goebbels banned any more performances of Der Silbersee on account of that ballad. A friend who had been arrested got word to Kurt that he must leave Berlin at once – his name was … Continue reading
hit him with your rhythm stick
…After an appearance before the House Un-American Committee in 1947, Brecht went directly to Switzerland where his reputation seemed to be reviving, and when the regime in East Berlin offered him a theater of his own and a subsidy to … Continue reading
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Tagged Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt Brecht, christopher caudwell, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Kellner, joerg immendorff, jorg immendorff, karl korsch, kent williams painting, korsch, markus lupertz, Rep. John Parnell Thomas, Walter Benjamin, william empsom
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king for a day: take a pass on the cake
All the king’s men and women. Indeterminancy and inevitability, fortuity and fate.Sacred geometry and secret recipes. The chance of being king. Or is it chance? The chance of being king is charged with multiple and contradictory associations among of which … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Aristotle, Christopher Hitchens, cosmati floor, cosmati pavement, Douglas Kellner, Guy Debord, Inigo Jones, james frazer the golden bough, Jean Baudrillard, Kate Middleton, King James I, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince William, XTC Andy Partridge
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2+2 =5 the arithmatic of rational liberalism
Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 struck a responsive chord among natural enemies- the left and right- that it said a great deal about the world in which they lived. Both factions draw what they please from it, but they usually miss … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Kellner, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michel Foucault, Scott Lucas, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Roszak, Walter Benjamin
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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON
‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer
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MARCUSE: IS THERE AN APP FOR A REVOLUTION?
His economic ideas belong in the bone yard, and his understanding of organizational decision making resembles that of ”a camel is a horse designed by a committee ” school. But his ideas on aesthetics and art, likely a byproduct of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bergson, Dali, Douglas Kellner, Felix Guattari, Fred J. Cook, Gilles Deleuze, Goethe, henri Bergson, Herbert Marcuse, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Laura Marcus, Martin Heidegger, Maurizio Cattelan, Michel Foucault, Peter Nicholls, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Vance Packard
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